Arts

Tim Curry performs in a staging of The Rocky Horror Show in the 1970s.

Arts

It's Astounding ... Time Is Fleeting ... And 'Rocky Horror' Is 40

6:27pm October 29, 2015

by Bob Mondello

Critic Bob Mondello has been doing the Time Warp longer than anyone: He saw the Rocky Horror Show onstage in London, before it became a movie, and now he reflects on 40 years of midnight madness.

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Evelyn Birkby interviews guests on her KMA radio program, Down a Country Lane, in 1951 in Shenandoah, Iowa.

Food Podcasts 1.0: These Radio Pioneers Had It Down 90 Years Ago

6:06pm October 29, 2015

by Anne Bramley

From the 1920s on, women broadcasters offered recipes, life hacks and insights for the farmer's wife. Like podcasts, their shows were often personal, off-the-cuff and right from the kitchen table.

Monica Bellucci as Milly Catena in a scene from Alice Rohrwacher's The Wonders.

Arts

'The Wonders' Of Family And Change

5:03pm October 29, 2015

by Ella Taylor

Director Alice Rohrwacher focuses an observant eye on a rural family with a daughter nearly ready to take flight.

Bradley Cooper as Chef Adam Jones in a scene from Burnt.

Arts

'Burnt' Tastes A Lot Like Last Year's Redemption Story

5:03pm October 29, 2015

by Andrew Lapin

Bradley Cooper plays a chef who suffers no real consequences for acting like a jerk — an awfully common story in the world of movies about geniuses.

Arts

'Our Brand Is Crisis' Is A Satire Oddly Toothless About Politics

5:03pm October 29, 2015

by Scott Tobias

Director David Gordon Green's loose adaptation of a documentary about American political consultants meddling in other nations works as a comedic vehicle for Sandra Bullock, but sputters as satire.

Arts

Graphic Doesn't Mean Interesting, Particularly In 'Love'

5:03pm October 29, 2015

by Mark Jenkins

Director Gaspar Noe manages to make his blandest feature to date despite — or as a result of — filling almost half its running time with raw, unsimulated sex.

Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Brian d'Arcy James, Michael Keaton and John Slattery play Boston Globe journalists in the film, Spotlight.

Film Shines A 'Spotlight' On Boston's Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal

5:01pm October 29, 2015

A new movie chronicles the team of journalists who uncovered the clergy sex abuse scandal in Boston. Director Tom McCarthy and former Globe editor Walter Robinson join Fresh Air to discuss Spotlight.

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Books
Arts

'The Other Paris' Goes Beyond The Banlieues

3:56pm October 29, 2015

by Tomas Hachard

Luc Sante's cultural history focuses on the darker corners of the City of Lights, and the rougher and more disreputable citizens of the French capital who, he argues, have made Paris what it is today.

Books
Arts

'Custer's Trials' Examines The Legacy Of A Complicated American Figure

1:43pm October 29, 2015

T.J. Stiles' biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt earned the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. Steve Inskeep talks with Stiles about his new book, Custer's Trials, on George Armstrong Custer.

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Vermeer's 1663 work, Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, is back on display at the National Gallery after its first visit 20 years ago.

Arts

Vermeer's 'Woman In Blue' Returns To D.C., Hoping For Better Luck This Time

1:42pm October 29, 2015

by Susan Stamberg

During the National Gallery's first Vermeer exhibit 20 years ago, the federal government shut down twice, and a major blizzard hit the East Coast. But The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter is undeterred.

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