Arts
Sold-Out Shows Marked 2015 RiverRun Film Festival
The RiverRun International Film Festival has put the wraps on another year in Winston-Salem.
From TED Talks To Taco Bell, Abuzz With Silicon Valley-Style 'Disruption'
Linguist Geoff Nunberg considers the roots and resonance of the latest tech buzzword to catapult into the mainstream. "Disrupt" may be ubiquitous now, but could the term be on the eve of a disruption?
6 Novelists Withdraw From Event Honoring 'Charlie Hebdo' For Free Speech
Peter Carey and Rachel Kushner are among those who are withdrawing in protest from the PEN American Center's annual gala. Kushner says she is uncomfortable with Charlie Hebdo's "cultural intolerance."
It's The Fuzz! Cat Detective Swipes A Claw At Crime In 'William'
When the Mona Cheesa goes missing in Paris, "international cat of mystery" William is called in on the case. Helen Hancocks joins NPR's Scott Simon to talk about William & the Missing Masterpiece.
'Publicly Shamed:' Who Needs The Pillory When We've Got Twitter?
Host Steve Inskeep explores modern-day humiliation with writer Jon Ronson, whose new book So You've Been Publicly Shamed digs into the lives of people who've been raked over the coals on social media.
Sandwich Monday: Deep-Fried Cheese Curds
For this week's Sandwich Monday, we try deep-fried cheese curds. They're a regional specialty and the reason we haven't left the Midwest.
Meet The 'Capital Dames,' Civil War Washington's Secret Power Brokers
In her new book, Cokie Roberts explains how women like Mary Todd Lincoln and Jessie Benton Fremont influenced Washington's men of power when they weren't even allowed to vote.
Painting The 'Epic Drama' Of The Great Migration: The Work Of Jacob Lawrence
A rare exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art features 60 of Lawrence's paintings about the journey of 6 million African-Americans, who fled the segregated South during the Great Migration.