Around The World In ... A Lot Of Steps
Paul Salopek has discovered that the best way to a storyteller is by foot.
Arts
A&T Jazz Ensemble All Stars Perform Tonight
For some people jazz music is something to listen to occasionally, collect, and share with friends. For others it's a way of life, a constant search for that perfect melody. Trumpeter Mondre Moffett continues his search which began as a young boy. Mondre's father was the legendary avant guard or free jazz drummer Charles Moffet. Mondre grew up performing trumpet and composing for the Moffett Family Jazz Band, touring the U.S. and South East Asia, and later internationally with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Anjelica Huston Tells Her 'Story' Of Growing Up With A Director Dad
The actor's new memoir, A Story Lately Told, ends just as her Hollywood career is taking off. It covers her early life growing up in Ireland, the daughter of Maltese Falcon director John Huston. The two first collaborated on 1969's Walk With Love And Death, a project that proved disastrous for their relationship.
For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power'
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele each have a white mother and black father, and a lot of the jokes on their Comedy Central show are about race. Peele tells Fresh Air that their backgrounds allow them to do characters others would feel uncomfortable doing.
Sawtooth School for Visual Art Will Present Deck the Halls
Deck the Halls at Sawtooth School for Visual Art began as a little 3-day art show f
'Great Beauty,' 'Narco Cultura': Excess, Succeeding Wildly
Critic John Powers says Italy's submission for the best foreign language film Oscar and a documentary about the Mexican drug war got him thinking about a William Blake proverb: "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
Fresh Air Remembers 'Golden Notebook' Author Doris Lessing
Lessing's 1962 book was regarded as among the most important feminist novels of its time. She died Sunday. Fresh Air's Terry Gross interviewed Lessing in 1988 and 1992.
UNCSA Alumna and Off-Broadway Director GT Upchurch and She Loves Me Production
Wake Forest University and University of NC School of the Arts alumna GT Upchurch may have just graduated from UNCSA's School of Drama in 2005, but she's already on lots of people's radar. GT has directed several Off-Broadway productions, including last year's Harper Regan by Simon Stephens which received a Top Ten Shows of 2012 nod from the New York Times. The Times also profiled her in February's article “Staging a Sisterhood,” about the rise of women directors in New York. Recently GT's been sharing her talents with UNCSA 4th year senior drama students during rehearsals for Joe Masteroff's romantic comedy She Loves Me.
Antibiotic Use On The Farm: Are We Flying Blind?
No one knows exactly how farmers use antibiotics. Many public health experts say the government should collect and publish detailed information because antibiotic-resistant bacteria are an increasingly urgent problem. But many farm groups are opposed.
Feist On World Cafe
Leslie Feist has long attracted serious buzz: In the early 2000s, the Canadian singer-songwriter appeared to be on the verge of jumping from underground success to mainstream stardom. In 2007, she started to fulfill that promise. Hear an archived interview and studio performance.