After Fleeing An Apocalypse, La Vida Boheme Embraces Its Immigrant Story
La Vida Boheme plays upbeat music on somber themes. The Venezuelan rockers' last album, Será , came as student protests were erupting in their home town of Caracas. The band's booking agent was...
View ArticleAn Exoneree Shares His Story Of Wrongful Conviction In 'Anatomy Of Innocence'
Jerry Miller spent more than 25 years behind bars for kidnapping, rape and robbery — crimes he didn't commit. Miller was released from prison in 2006. In 2007, after decades of insisting he was...
View ArticleHow Can You Bring Innovation To Government Services? Follow Users
Every recent president has promised to innovate the way government works, and this week, the Trump administration announced its plan to do the same. The initiative is called the White House Office of...
View ArticleIn Germany, A Syrian Refugee Is Reunited With His Family
Here's an update on a story that NPR started following almost two years ago in Izmir, Turkey, a city on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. That's where NPR's Ari Shapiro first met a teacher from Syria...
View ArticleFitzgerald Didn't Satisfy This Author, So She Wrote Her Own 'Gatsby'-Inspired...
F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved American novel The Great Gatsby is about the messiness of chasing the American dream. But author Stephanie Powell Watts says something about the book left her unsatisfied....
View ArticleWoman Returns To Her Slave Cabin Childhood Home In The Smithsonian
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C, has many artifacts connected to slavery. For one woman, visiting the museum this week was a literal...
View ArticleOutgoing 'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Says 'Being Funny Is Being Awake'
Throughout the day, New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff jots down ideas that strike him as funny: A door lies on a couch in a psychiatrist's office, and the psychiatrist says, "You're not crazy,...
View Article'Just Show Up': Sheryl Sandberg On How To Help Someone Who's Grieving
Two years ago, life was good for Sheryl Sandberg. The Facebook senior executive and mother of two had a best-selling book ( Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead ) and she and her husband, Dave...
View ArticleSylvan Esso On The Pressure To Make Magic — Again
Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn each spent time in bands that never made it big. But when the two of them joined up to create Sylvan Esso , everything changed. They started filling up high-profile music...
View ArticleThis Simple Puzzle Test Sealed The Fate Of Immigrants At Ellis Island
A wooden puzzle in the silhouette of a human head might look fun if the stakes weren't so high. Historians at Smithsonian Magazine say this simple puzzle containing facial features broken into pieces...
View Article'Praise The Lard': A Barbecue Legend Shows Us How To Master Smoked Chicken Wings
Mike and Amy Mills are a father-daughter team from southern Illinois. Mike was trained as a dental technician. "I made false teeth — crowns, bridges, partials — this type of thing. It's what I did as a...
View ArticleBefore The Rumble In The Jungle, Music Rang Out At Zaire 74
In the fall of 1974, George Foreman and Muhammad Ali met in the country of Zaire, now called the Democratic Republic of Congo, for the legendary boxing match known as "The Rumble in the Jungle."...
View ArticleTituss Burgess Says He Plays The Most 'Everyman' Character On 'Kimmy Schmidt'
In Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt , Titus Andromedon is a show-stealing character. Tituss Burgess plays the mostly out-of-work actor who's black, gay and an endearing friend to the very naive Kimmy Schmidt....
View ArticleChesapeake Bay Dead Zones Are Fading, But Proposed EPA Cuts Threaten Success
Drive east from Washington and eventually you run smack into the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, the massive estuary that stretches from the mouth of the Susquehanna River at Maryland's northern tip and...
View ArticleMaryland Farmer Fights To Keep Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Alive
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: More than 18 million people live in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The federal government has put a lot of money and effort into cleaning up...
View ArticleHow The Story Of Beer Is The Story Of America
If you crack open a beer this Fourth of July, history might not be the first thing on your mind. But for Theresa McCulla , the first brewing historian at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American...
View ArticleNevada Voters, Divided Over Health Care, Put Moderate Republican In Tough Spot
When senators come back to Washington on Monday, a handful of Republicans will help decide the fate of legislation that could reshape health care in America. One of them is Nevada Republican Dean...
View Article'Stains On The Sidewalk': Photographer Remembers Year Of Murders In Baltimore
In American cities, the murder rate has kept rising over the last couple of years. One of the most violent cities in the U.S. is Baltimore. That's where 22-year-old photographer Amy Berbert lives....
View ArticleLawrence Osborne Doesn't Care If You Like His Characters In 'Beautiful Animals'
Lawrence Osborne has lived in half a dozen countries all over the world. He's set his previous books in Morocco, Cambodia and France. His latest novel, Beautiful Animals, is a sun-drenched summer novel...
View ArticleBilly Manes, Voice For Orlando's Gay Community After Pulse Shooting, Dies at 45
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Someone we have heard on this program over the last year died suddenly on Friday. Billy Manes was a leader in Orlando's gay community. He...
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