'Bollywood Kitchen': A Celebration Of Indian-American Cuisine SCOTT SIMON, HOST: What happens when immigrants bring their cuisines to America? Sri Rao, the son of immigrants, says that both people and food adapt. He's written a cookbook of his mother...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There's a big green tinsel warning label across the cover of Martha Brockenbrough's new book Love, Santa. It's a series of letters between a mother and a daughter. A little girl named Lucy begins to write Santa Claus when she's 7....
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: 2017 marked a hundred years since Andrew Wyeth was born. His Christina's World is one of the most iconic American paintings of all time, right alongside Whistler's Mother and Grant Wood's American Gothic. Karen Michel reports that...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: When you picture the Nutcracker ballet, what do you see? Dancing, dueling mice and wooden soldiers, the sugar plum fairy, maybe BJ Leiderman, who writes our theme music. What about a bald eagle and a fisherman? That's what you can...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: This is a movie season where films compete to be bigger, louder and flashier. Right now you can choose to spend a couple of hours in a dark theater with jedis, monsters or singing circus impresarios. In the middle of all this comes...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's talk about the Grinch. He's best known for his psychological problems. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, YOU'RE A MEAN ONE, MR. GRINCH) THURL RAVENSCROFT: (Singing) You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch. You're a nasty-wasty (ph) skunk. MARTIN:...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Hurricane Maria wiped out Puerto Rico's electrical grid in September. And as we've been reporting, getting the lights back on has been a slow and uneven process. On the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, residents face the prospect of...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Nearly 7,000 service members have lost their lives since the U.S. went to war in 2001, first in Afghanistan, then in Iraq and other countries. Every death is followed by an elaborate choreographed ritual that requires a very human...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The U.S. foster care system is overwhelmed in part because America's opioid crisis is overwhelming. Thousands of children have had to be taken out of the care of parents or a parent who is an addict. One of the states with the bigg...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless has died. You may not know his name, but you've probably seen him in one of the most famous pictures ever taken in space. In 1984, McCandless strapped on a jet-powered backpack and flew away from t...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A massive wildfire continues to burn in Southern California. The Thomas fire is now the largest in the state's history and still threatens homes and businesses in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. October wildfires in Northern Ca...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right, so that takes care of getting your present to you. But what about making it look just right? Take a tip from a pro - getting those nice crisp folded edges on your package is key. MIA CANADA: I crease everything. STEVE...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a wish for 2018 - bipartisanship. He says it's the only way forward. NPR congressional reporter Susan Davis and Kelsey Snell spoke with McConnell today about everything from immigration...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In Colombia, a decades-long conflict between FARC guerrillas and the government might be officially over. But the country still grapples with a nasty legacy of that war - landmines. Farmers are afraid to return to some fields. Pare...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The federal government has just released the latest statistics on life expectancy in the United States, and the news isn't good. In fact, it's pretty grim. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein has details. ROB STEIN, BYLINE: For de...
