The Healing Sound Of A Broken Orchestra
In a cheerful rehearsal room at Temple University, a few dozen professional musicians inspect the instruments that they'll be playing to debut an audacious piece of music by a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
View ArticleCivil Rights Reporters, Simeon Saunders Booker, Jr. And Roy Reed, Die At 99...
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Two leading journalists who covered the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s died yesterday. Roy Reed was white. Simeon Booker Jr. was...
View ArticleExhibit Featuring 20 Red Punching Bags Opens At LA Art Show
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right, here's some art that you might enjoy if the news sometimes makes you want to punch something. At the LA art show in downtown Los...
View ArticleNaomi Parker-Fraley, From Rosie The Riveter Poster, Dies At 96
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: The California woman who was the most likely model for Rosie the Riveter has died. If you'll remember, Rosie was the apple-cheeked icon who...
View Article'Videocracy' Looks At What Makes A Video Go Viral
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For some of us, watching online videos provides a break from work. For Kevin Allocca, it is his work. Allocca is the head of YouTube's culture...
View Article'I Can't Believe I Am The First,' Says Oscar-Nominated Female Cinematographer
Rachel Morrison is the first woman ever nominated for an Oscar in cinematography. "I can't believe I am the first," she says. "It's really kind of crazy!" It was her lensing on Mudbound that earned her...
View Article'Architecture Is A Backdrop For Life,' Says 2018 Pritzker Winner Balkrishna...
Bal Krishna is the name sometimes given to the young Hindu god Krishna. Balkrishna Doshi was named for him, when he was born in 1927. "They wanted me to remain young," the 90-year-old architect...
View ArticleMusician Finds Snail Mail Helps Her Connect With Fans
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A 22-year-old musician has discovered an innovative way to connect with her fans. LAUREN SANDERSON: My name is Lauren Sanderson, and I write...
View Article50 Years After The My Lai Massacre, An Opera Confronts The Past
One of the most horrible events of the Vietnam War took place 50 years ago this week. The story of Hugh Thompson, Jr., the American soldier who tried to stop the My Lai Massacre , has been made into an...
View ArticleFeminist Health Guide 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' Will Stop Publishing
At some point, you or a woman you know has likely looked through a copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves . The book was revolutionary when it was first published in the early 1970s. It taught women about their...
View ArticleWinners Of 2018 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: This year's Pulitzer Prize winners include journalists who helped launch a movement, a former criminal defense attorney and a hip-hop star. The...
View ArticleNPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies At 84, After A Lifelong Career On-Air
Every weekday for more than three decades, his baritone steadied our mornings. Even in moments of chaos and crisis, Carl Kasell brought unflappable authority to the news. But behind that hid a lively...
View ArticleFrozen Food Sales Feel The Heat As Consumers Opt For Fresh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Qn38WdTTs Lynn Smith was picking out frozen vegetables in a Los Angeles grocery store when she was asked if she bought much of her food in that aisle. "No I don't, as...
View ArticleAn Artist's Alternative Universe And His Warehouse Full Of Dolls
When Trenton Doyle Hancock was 10 years old, he made up a superhero: Torpedo Boy. The character has become the center of a complicated cosmos Hancock has developed obsessively for more than 30 years....
View ArticleHenrietta Lacks' Lasting Impact Detailed In New Portrait
When Henrietta Lacks was dying of cancer in 1951, her cells were harvested without her knowledge. They became crucial to scientific research and her story became a best-seller. Since then, Lacks has...
View ArticleHarvey Weinstein Arrested And Charged With Rape, Posts $1M Bail
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: This morning disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein surrendered to police in Lower Manhattan after a seven-month investigation. More than 50...
View ArticleBlind Boys Of Alabama Member Clarence Fountain Dies At 88
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: When Clarence Fountain was only 8 years old, his family left him at an Alabama boarding school for the blind. He eventually went on to help...
View ArticleBrady Bunch House Goes On The Market For $1.88 Million
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The perfect home for a perfect television family is for sale. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE BRADY BUNCH THEME SONG") UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing)...
View Article'Like A Virgin' Lives On, A Winking Anthem For Women Getting Married
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfnIv4RAhJU This story is part of American Anthem, a yearlong series on songs that rouse, unite, celebrate and call to action. Find more at NPR.org/Anthem . Editor's...
View ArticleHaute Pot: How High-End California Chefs Are Cashing In On Marijuana
Leave it to California to combine high-end cuisine with the kind of ingredients that might actually get you high. It's an increasingly lucrative niche for chefs in San Francisco and Los Angeles —...
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