(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, BEING ALIVE) FRANKIE COSMOS: (Singing) Seven, eight, nine - rest. Being alive - I see you in everything... SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Don't be fooled by the upbeat energy in the music of Frankie Cosmos. Those drums and guitars are paired...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Pictures can be poems and vice versa, feelings captured in a phrase, a stroke or an image. Leonardo da Vinci said, painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. Lee Bennett H...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A generation after it won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Edward Albee's Three Tall Women makes its Broadway debut. Three women of different generations - one in her 90s, one in her 50s, one in her 20s - are brought together around a...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump has chosen a leader for an agency that he tried to eliminate. The White House proposed cutting funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the NEH. Instead, Congress increased NEH funding in the spending...
NOEL KING, HOST: Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico more than six months ago, and for people living on tight budgets, the storm's economic aftermath has been an enormous challenge. Reporter Sarah Varney went to the suburb of San Juan and she met a retir...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Comedian Louie Anderson would like to introduce you to his mom. LOUIE ANDERSON: My mom, Ora Zella Anderson - I like to always say her name. GREENE: That's beautiful. ANDERSON: Yeah, it's a great name - isn't it? She was very lovel...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The city of Atlanta is under siege. Many of its online systems were crippled by hackers who were trying to extort tens of thousands of dollars from the city. Cybersecurity experts are warning that the threat to public services may...
NOEL KING, HOST: OK. If you listen to the hit podcast Serial, you know the name Adnan Syed. The podcast was about his murder conviction in 2000. But an appeals court in Maryland has backed a decision that vacated his conviction, and Syed might be get...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: And now, how do you get kids excited about books if they don't have access to them outside of school and the books they see in school don't speak to them? One answer may be in the number 15. NPR's Cory Turner brings us the latest s...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: K-pop is popular in much of the world, and it is about to extend its reach into North Korea. One of the genre's hottest acts is performing there this weekend. As NPR's Elise Hu reports, the music may be lighthearted, but the purpo...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Flushing, the neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., is home to the largest population of Chinese immigrants in any city outside Asia. One of those immigrants is Zhuang Liehong. He arrived in 2014 from a small village in southwestern China...
NOEL KING, HOST: Photographs taken over the course of 50 years are on view in Los Angeles. Three different photographers captured stunning and shocking and provocative images. And then a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art found connections amo...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The young adult bestseller Ready Player One is about the search for an Easter egg - not the kind that kids will search for this weekend, Easter egg in the sense of an unexpected bonus feature, the kind found in video games. Filmmak...
NOEL KING, HOST: There is a frightening new dimension to the opioid crisis. People who are using cocaine are overdosing, not on cocaine but on fentanyl. Fentanyl makes heroin even more dangerous, and now it's showing up in cocaine as well. And that c...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The Trump administration has been trying to ramp up deportations of immigrants in the country illegally. But one thing has been standing in its way - judges who often put these cases on hold. Now Attorney General Jeff Sessions is...
