Tag: public radio
group name: here-now
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May 10, 2007 10:00 AM EDT --
If I was to create from scratch a public radio show, I would....
Your turn.
Me? I would most topics that I read about in The New York Times, Boston Globe and other "news . . .
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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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May 01, 2007 09:07 AM EDT --
Cathryn Jakobsen Ramin was a hard-hitting journalist whose memory began slipping when she hit her forties. Ramin's book "Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife," . . .
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April 13, 2007 09:17 AM EDT --
Imagine a swath of land stretching from Boston to Portland, Maine with homes on both sides of the road in ruins.
In Louisiana people don't have to imagine. That's the destruction they still see . . .
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May 17, 2007 11:46 AM EDT --
I read a fascinating piece in The Nation online yesterday that touched on some of Falwell's over-looked early years when "questions of the day" for many cultural conservatives were ones concerning . . .
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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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April 30, 2007 02:52 PM EDT --
Last week Rosie O'Donnell and ABC announced that she will leave "The View" in June.
Rosie, the outspoken co-host host of the morning talk show, said her needs could not be met in contract . . .
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April 11, 2007 08:41 AM EDT --
Members of the Scarlett Knights basketball team of Rutgers University held a press conference where captain Essence Carson talked about how angry and sad Imus' comments made the team. Last week the . . .
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April 12, 2007 01:30 PM EDT --
Relations between Japan and China are thawing a bit as China's Premier Wen takes his first trip to Japan.
John Bussey, editor of The Wall Street Journal Asia, says its all about trade.
Click here . . .
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April 30, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
Next month, a Texas-based company plans to begin construction on an off-shore liquefied natural gas terminal in Massachusetts Bay. Excelerate Energy got the go-ahead late last year after agreeing . . .
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August 21, 2007 11:48 AM EDT --
The man known as "America's Preacher" in a North Carolina hospital today. Reverend Billy Graham is listed in 'fair condition' after being admitted for treatment over the weekend. . . .
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April 11, 2007 08:56 AM EDT --
When Amal Graafstra opens his front door, he doesn't use a key; to turn on his computer, he just waves his hand.
Graafstra, who runs a mobile messaging company in Bellingham, Washington, is one of . . .
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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 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 19, 2007 12:41 PM EDT --
Virginia Tech had been working on a system to get emergency alerts to students by cell phone text messages. But the University of Washington has a safety team in place charged with herding people into . . .
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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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May 02, 2007 01:45 PM EDT --
Blackwater, USA first came to the attention of most Americans in March 2004 when four of its employees were killed in the Iraqi town of Fallujah, and two of the charred, dismembered bodies were strung . . .
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