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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Photographer Sarah Sudhoff has been intrigued by mortality for almost as long as she can remember. She's made art out of out of disease, hospitals, funeral homes. In her series, At The Hour of Our Death, she's taking an close look at death.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

TTBOOK producer Doug Gordon attempts to interview Chris Murphy and Patrick Pentland of the Halifax Indie band Sloan.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Hanan Al-Shaykh bookmarks "Season of Migration to the North" by Tayeb Salih.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Hughes is the author of “The Complete Lynch,” a comprehensive study of film-maker David Lynch’s work.  Hughes talks about meeting Lynch in Prague, and they talk about Lynch’s use of sound.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Where are the female scalawags?  The lady rogue? Well, Anne Strainchamps set out to find out.  She called up Elizabeth Mahon, author of the blog and the book of the same name: “Scandalous Women.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If we think of cities as organisms, their DNA is the hodgepodge of rules that shape development. Urban planner Emily Talen talks about how city zoning, coding and laws got started, and how they need to be changed to help us build more livable cities.

Take a look at a visual archive of city plans.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brian Price tells Anne Strainchamps how he came to prepare the last meals for some 200 inmates on Death Row in Texas prisons.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

"I was very uncomfortable with death for most of my life," says Karen Reppen says she ran from death and dying for most of her life. But after she decided to face her fears head-on by getting a job in hospice, she started to see the moment of death as a source of wonder and joy.

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