Texas uber-festival South By Southwest starts next week, and my plans are the same as they’ve been every year. Hang out in Memphis, a mere 10 hours away from Austin, and wish I had been able to go to SXSW to hear some awesome new bands, as I’m in a musical rut. Thankfully, NPR is [...]
One can find a lot of things on the left rail of npr.org. There are links to shows, story topics and a list of services, all with cute little icons. Personally, I’m a big fan of the “diversions” tab – it’s were insane stories live in happy isolation from NPR’s more serious content. “Diversions” is [...]
Here’s what my news consumption looks like on a typical day: Every morning, Matthew and I wake up to three different alarms and Morning Edition. It’s usually turned on by whoever wakes up first and stays on until we leave the house. I listen to more Morning Edition in my car on the way to [...]
Happy holidays, everybody. Let’s see what OTM got us for Christmas: First up, a story about the Iraqi journalist who chucked his shoes at President Bush last week. The incident has spawned a ton of news coverage, a flash game, and some of Bob’s famous dad jokes. It wouldn’t be Christmas without some dad jokes. [...]
Sure, you could always get your friends and loved ones one of the year’s best books of letters or one of the records featured on “All Songs Considered“, but this holiday season you should also consider donating to one of your favorite public radio programs in the name of someone you love. Before this week’s [...]
This weekend, “Twilight”, a teenage vampire love thriller movie comes out, much to the delight of tween girls with really bizarre ideas of what love should be like. And for some reason, NPR is all over it. There’s a review, in which Kenneth Turan (like a lot of other movie reviewers) announces that he is [...]
Y’all, these are tough times. There are all kinds of heavy news events that deserve our full attention right now. But while the rest of the world frets over elections an economies, I’ve been needing something a little different. Thankfully, I can usually rely on the “Diversions” section of NPR.org to have something [...]
When I was a kid, my jetlagged father would wake up at 3 a.m. and go sit in the den and watch music videos that he had taped from MTV onto a VHS tape. Occasionally, I would wake up and go upstairs and we would watch child-appropriate 80′s videos. As I remember the 80′s from [...]
Last week, I promised our awesome friend Scott that we would round up all of the NPR people who actively use Twitter and post links here. This is how it works: I’m going to start a list of NPR twitter-ers (tweeters? twits?) that will be updated every so often with links to relevant Twitter accounts. [...]
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I wish I could come up with a better way to introduce this, but here’s the best way ever – from the Twitter feed of NPR’s Andy Carvin: Â Seriously, just about anything works. I’ve created a podcast, which I call “Night of the Living Deford,” in order to play any story featuring Frank Deford [...]