The Progressive Forum presents Eric Schlosser

Wortham Theater Center

09.24.13

A decade after Fast Food Nation exposed the harms of the industrial food system, famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser addresses the existential threat of nuclear weapons. Schlosser returns

The Progressive Forum presents Rachel Maddow

Wortham Theater Center

03.10.13

Rachel Maddow is host of MSNBC's critically acclaimed The Rachel Maddow Show. Her book, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list i

Calendar Closeup

Your weekly guide to Houston: Five (plus) don't-miss events — Supreme justice included

By Joel Luks

01.17.13 | 11:50 am

If it feels like end-of-the-year festivities are as far back in that past as, well, last year, then you are feeling the crunch of January taking off like a wild, lustful bull amid a field grazed by ...

The Arthropologist

Staying Progressive: Forum adds video & lineup of thoughtful speakers in theater of ideas

By Nancy Wozny

09.23.12 | 8:00 am

"Look around," I told my son, before Bill Moyers took the stage at The Progressive Forum. "These are your people." There's always a theatrical aspect to these events. Fi ...

The Progressive Forum Screening: Plan B Documentary Film

Sundance Cinemas

05.07.12 - 05.07.12

Plan B is a powerful film presenting a road map to eradicating poverty, stabilizing population and restoring the planet's fisheries, aquifers, soils, grasslands and biological diversity. Narrat

The Progressive Forum presents Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Wortham Theater Center

11.05.12

Robert Kennedy Jr. is a resolute defender of the environment and an insightful social and political commentator. He was named one of Time magazine's "Heroes for the Planet" for his su

The Arthropolgist

The theatrical art of public speaking: Whether it's UP, TEDx or Poitier, it's become an obsession

By Nancy Wozny

10.27.11 | 11:23 am

One stage, one human and a handful of ideas . . . so it goes in lecture land. The talk or lecture, be it an hour or 18 minutes, has been a growing presence on these shores. This city is ju ...

The Progressive Forum presents Bill Moyers

Wortham Theater Center

11.17.11

Acclaimed as one of America's most prolific and respected journalists, Bill Moyers has received nearly every major media award for his life's work, including more than 30 Emmys from the Nat

Underwater Wisdom

Lessons from an aquababe: Man eating sharks are the ocean's real problem

By Nancy Wozny

04.06.11 | 3:17 pm

"Think like an ocean," urged Oceanographer Sylvia Earle, in a lecture for The Progressive Forum Tuesday night at the Wortham Center's Cullen Theater. Earle, also lovingly known a ...

Great ape expectations

Primate pioneer Jane Goodall regales Houston with chimp tales and a plea to think first

By Fayza A. Elmostehi

03.10.11 | 1:58 pm

When you hear the words "epitome of hope," "role model" and "hero" strung together in rapid succession, the names of only a few select individuals could feasibly follo ...