Tag: arts
group name: here-now
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April 17, 2007 04:01 PM EDT --
Today, fans of fantasy writer JRR Tolkien will have cause to rejoice...or fear.
A new saga, "The Children of Hurin," hits the store shelves. A prequel of sorts to "The Lord of the Rings" . . .
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April 12, 2007 01:34 PM EDT --
Sanjaya is the man with many hair styles singing on "American Idol." And some say he's only there because of an "American Idol" backlash led by radio's Howard Stern and a website . . .
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May 02, 2007 12:08 PM EDT --
Solomon Burke is one of few remaining regents from the era of classic soul.
Inducted into Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame five years ago, the man known as "The King of Rock and Soul" . . .
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May 08, 2007 03:18 PM EDT --
Whistlers get no respect. There was a time when they were featured soloists touring with big bands. Now whistlers get a bad rap for being too cheery as in that band of crucified thieves hanging Christ-like . . .
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May 11, 2007 09:52 AM EDT --
Singer-song Patty Griffin is known for her laments about people down on their luck delivered in a clear-as bell soprano. Griffin tells us about her new recording "Children Running Through" and . . .
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May 18, 2007 08:21 AM EDT --
The singer-song writer is known for her laments about people down on their luck was interviewed last Thursday on public radio's Here & Now program.
Griffin talks about her new recording . . .
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April 24, 2007 09:01 AM EDT --
When Sly Stone made his appearance at the Grammy Awards in 2006, younger viewers might have wondered what all the fuss was about.
The mohawk hair seemed out of place and the artist out of it.
But this . . .
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May 09, 2007 12:48 PM EDT --
Daniel Levitin, who received his doctorate in psychology from the University of Oregon, explores the connection our brain makes to muscial notes, why we are attracted to certain types of songs, and . . .
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April 30, 2007 02:49 PM EDT --
A new documentary features eveything you wanted to know about balloon twisters but were afraid to ask.
Listen to a conversation with Naomi Greenfield about her film, "Twisted: A Balloonamentary." . . .
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April 12, 2007 01:58 PM EDT --
The movie "Pride" smashes the old stereotype that blacks can't swim. The film is loosely based on the life of Jim Ellis, who created one of the nation's finest swim teams in a poor . . .
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April 24, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
Bet you didn't know this about the late economist John Kenneth Galbraith: As a child growing up in Canada, he was an avid reader who remembered the day the local library changed its lending policy . . .
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April 24, 2007 08:48 AM EDT --
German filmmaker Malte Ludin's father, convicted war criminal Hans Ludin, was executed when Malte was only five-years-old, but decades later his legacy looms large in the family.
When Malte's . . .
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May 09, 2007 10:10 AM EDT --
A new documentary chronicles how Asian actors have struggled over the past century, with varying degrees of success, to get beyond stereotyping. Listen to a conversation with Jeff Adachi, director . . .
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May 09, 2007 12:36 PM EDT --
If you think you're the last person on earth who doesn't have an iPod don't fret, you're not.
WBUR radio personality Robin Young is.
True, she has bought them for gifts, but never, ever . . .
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May 11, 2007 12:59 PM EDT --
Andrew Blechman is a world authority on pigeons. Blechman spent a year with people who race them, raise them, hunt them and even eat them. The result is his "Pigeons: The Fascinating . . .
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May 02, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
Photographer Mark Edward Harris has made two visits to North Korea and has been to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. His stunning photographs from the Hermit Kingdom are featured in . . .
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