Sandwich Monday: The Dunkin' Donuts Cronut
This week, we try a mass-produced version of New York City's famous Cronut, the croissant-doughnut hybrid. The real failure here is that Dunkin' Donuts didn't call it a Crunkin' Cronut.
Arts
For Christopher Nolan, Making 'Interstellar' Was A Childhood Dream
"I got to do a lot of things in this film that I've been wanting to do since I was a kid," Nolan says. His new movie has explorers traveling through space to find a new home for humanity.
Don't Leave Me Hanging: On Difference, High-Fives, And Podcasts
A fresh episode of a popular podcast breathes in a little new air and provokes some thought about who's heard and not heard, and who's listening.
Inhalable Chocolate? Ingestible Ideas From A Lab For The Senses
A real-life Willy Wonka invites scientists, designers, composers, artists and chefs to collaborate on novel foods and other cultural confections.
Whether Green With Envy Or Tickled Pink, We Live In A Color-Coded World
Red means stop; green means go. You live in a red state or a blue state. Elizabeth Blair kicks off NPR's color series with a look at the way color organizes our lives — in ways we don't even realize.
Book News: PBS Promises 'Olympic-Style' Coverage Of Miami Book Fair
The network will feature the massive festival, which boasts hundreds of authors and countless more attendees, in a live webcast. Across the Atlantic, The Hunger Games is getting a theater adaptation.
'The Black Horn': Blowing Past Classical Music's Color Barriers
Robert Lee Watt, the first black French horn player to join a major U.S. symphony, spent 37 years with the LA Philharmonic. He faced a lot of resistance along the way, as his new memoir recounts.
In 'The Theory Of Everything,' Science Takes A Back Seat
The new Stephen Hawking biographical film The Theory Of Everything takes such a starry-eyed view of love and life that it seems to be from another era.
'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Hits A Home Run With The Stupendous Andre Braugher
Sunday night's Brooklyn Nine-Nine gave star Andre Braugher a moment of pure comedic joy-genius.