WATCH: Andy Richter & Reggie Watts Make Up Fake New TV Shows
Well, this one is simply a delight. Last week, Andy Richter and Reggie Watts used their improvisational gifts to great effect on Minnesota Public Radi...
Well, this one is simply a delight. Last week, Andy Richter and Reggie Watts used their improvisational gifts to great effect on Minnesota Public Radi...
Nellie McKay | Posted 04.05.2012
"The culture wars are over and culture lost." So said Bill Maher not long ago. There are times when I think that's just about right. But then I turn on the radio and realize that there are indeed places where culture is alive and kicking.
Duane Elgin | Posted 01.18.2012
To meet the challenges of our times, we must transcend our partisan differences long enough to recognize our common need for a system of civic conversation that serves us all.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 12.02.2011
NEW YORK -- NPR named Gary Knell as president and CEO on Sunday, ending more than six months of speculation about who would lead the media organizatio...
Don McNay | Posted 11.08.2011
The "juicy part" of the book was the story of Edwards' controversial firing from Morning Edition. Although Bob does not dig up a lot of dirty laundry on people in the book, he does tell his story completely and fully.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
MINNEAPOLIS — Garrison Keillor plans to keep spinning tales of Lake Wobegon's Norwegian bachelor farmers for at least a couple more years, but t...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011
The GOP assault on NPR has, as it always had, the sole aim to cower the mainstream media and shove it even further to the right.
Tracy Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
College radio is part of the diverse package of community media voices around the country that keep the radio waves open to the public, training millions of young people in technology.
Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 05.25.2011
It's certainly a special thing when we pause to appreciate our loved ones. But perhaps we can raise our game in 2011 and do a bit more on this date.
Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011
The show "Marketplace," which is heard on public radio stations nationwide, is collecting all its books coverage in a new section of its website, dubb...
Lev Raphael | Posted 05.25.2011
For as long as I can remember, I was a monogamous reader. I'd start a book and read it straight through no matter how much time that took. Now I'm a book slut.
Bob Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011
When I was drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War, I complained every day. I was totally opposed to the war in Southeast Asia, and I hate jingoism. But still, I am proud to be a vet.
Posted 05.25.2011
From interviews with the creators of Mad Men and writers like Mario Vargas-LLosa, to live musical appearances on their Morning Becomes Eclectic music ...
Posted 05.25.2011
A man who does a mean David Letterman impression opened WBEZ's Chicago news program "Eight Forty Eight" Thursday morning, pretending that the New York...
Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011
"Show him a poltical near-death experience, and this guy rallies!" James Morone has been telling us all along that healthcare politics was peculiarly...
Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011
In this "Year of India" at Brown, we are talking again about the Pakistan question next door -- about India's nuclear-armed neighbor and sibling, on the verge, some say, of meltdown.
Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011
Yehudi Wyner is an approachable guy in a forbidding field: contemporary "serious" music. He gives us an opening here to ask where new sounds come fr...
Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011
Who knew that the God question is burning bright in our university neighborhood of brain scientists, mathematicians, computer geniuses, game theorists...
Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011
When Ruth Seymour announced earlier this week her retirement as general manager of Santa Monica's pioneering public-radio station, KCRW, it really did mark the end of an era.
Bob Edwards | Posted 11.17.2011
As NASA lit that candle and sent Endeavour into space, I got the rush of a lifetime! More brave human beings were putting their lives on the line so that we will all know a little more about the universe.
HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011
On Sunday, Nov. 9th from 6 to 7 pm (PST), Left, Right & Center... takes to the stage before a live audience for a special one-hour broadcast.
Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 05.25.2011
Public broadcasting officials vowed Monday to fight drastic cuts President Bush is seeking to make to federal financing for public television and radi...
Posted 04.17.2012