Pamela Howland and Wendell Myers Celebrate Chopin through Piano and Visual Art
Pamela Howland is a pianist, and her husband Wendell Myers is a painter.
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Don't Feel Too Bad For Sad-Sack Bob Schneider
Schneider's Burden of Proof is a frequently beautiful, often morose, downcast album. You get the sense that, when he sings about not connecting with someone he loves, he's also singing about not connecting with a bigger audience.
Writing Noir Poetry, With LA As A Backdrop
Suzanne Lummis is the granddaughter of a California pioneer, a local legend and a woman who has turned her life's misadventures into edgy poetry. She speaks with host Jacki Lyden about noir poetry set in her beloved city of Los Angeles.
Children's Theatre of Winston-Salem Busy As Ever
Children’s Theatre of Winston-Salem is just as busy as ever with Fall productions at the Arts Council
Theatre and Dixie Classic Fairgrounds, Playhouse Acting Classes, and their Best Christmas Pageant Ever auditions are just around the corner. Coming up Friday and Saturday, October 4th and 5th it’s the TheatreworksUSA production of The Teacher From The Black Lagoon & Other Story Books with shows 10am and noon on Friday and 11am on Saturday morning. Children’s Theatre of Winston-Salem General Manager Karen McHugh and Artistic Director Cheri Van Loon provide this season preview.
How Two Brothers Waged A 'Secret World War' In The 1950s
Sharing power in the Eisenhower administration, John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles were the forefathers of using covert operations to upset foreign governments. Journalist Stephen Kinzer, who wrote a book on the siblings, says Americans are still paying the price for them.
Taste Of Grandma's Kitchen: We Hack An Old Ketchup Recipe
Jim Ledvinka grew up outside of Chicago watching his grandmother make ketchup from scratch once a year. As a kid, he hated the stuff. As a man — and now a grandfather — he became desperate to re-create it. That's where All Things Considered's Found Recipes project comes in.
'Faithful Scribe': Tracing Ancestry Through Pakistan's History
In The Faithful Scribe, Shahan Mufti examines the history of Pakistan and that nation's relationship to the U.S. He interweaves the story of his own family with the tumultuous story of the nation. Mufti talks with NPR's Arun Rath about the future of the world's first Islamic democracy.
From Kolbasa To Borscht, 'Soviet Cooking' Tells A Personal History
Anya von Bremzen's new memoir is a delicious narrative of memory and cuisine in 20th century Soviet Union. She writes about her family's own history and contemplates the nation's "complicated, even tortured, relationship with food."
News From Lake Wobegon: Garrison Keillor Has A New Book Of Poetry
The host of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac has published his first poetry collection called O, What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic and Profound. "I love rhymes," Keillor says. "I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' "
I, Spy: Valerie Plame Makes Her Fiction Debut In CIA Thriller
In Blowback, Plame channels her expertise in nuclear counterproliferation into a "realistic portrait" of a female covert agent. Plame confesses that there's a lot of downtime in the life of a spy, but still, the CIA is "the world's biggest dating agency."