The annual festival will feature more than 100 different authors and artists in virtual events Sept. 25-27.

As Gore Vidal debated William F. Buckley Jr., network executives looked on in horror. It is impossible to watch without being remind of what is playing out on cable TV and across the Internet this year.

The air was clear last night in D.C. … or at least that’s what you could have believed if you were watching the show on TV.

“Live At 9:30” will air musical performances filmed in recent months (interspersed with interviews, short films, and comedic bits) on PBS.

Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and James Radnor, it is the first American-produced drama for the network in over a decade.

In “Homelamb,” Congress-sheep Nicolas Baaaa-rody is “not the sheep you think he is.”

Federal government shutdown’s next potential victim: In Performance at the White House.

Big Bird and plenty of his muppet friends descended on Washington today for the Million Muppet March, where they sang the praises of public broadcasting and jeered Mitt Romney’s plan to defund it.

After Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said he’d cut funding for PBS, the network came to its own defense with a strongly worded rebuke.

A little post-lunch, pre-dinner reading that includes big questions and things to do, see and read.