Casual Friday: Vaccine Day Happy V day! Everyone 16 and up is *officially* eligible for a vaccine, and with that flood of people comes vaccine flaunting, selfies, and even tattoos. Clare McGrane
Mom Releases Book Based On 10 Years Of Ramadan Traditions 10 years ago, story teller Salma Hasan Ali started a blog marking the month of Ramadan called "30 Days, 30 Deeds." This year, she releases a book of stories and lessons from a decade of the blog.
Pottery and grandbabies: A pandemic story Around the beginning of the pandemic, Bryan Ohno closed the Seattle art gallery he’d been running for 17 years and radically simplified his life to focus on family and his love of making art. A year later, he looks back on how it changed him. Joshua McNichols
#NPRPoetry: Mark Doty Poet Mark Doty, winner of the 2008 National Book Award for poetry, discusses his favorite listener-submitted poems with NPR's Michel Martin.
Black Enterprise, Tradition And Culture At The Bronner Bros. Hair Show Photographer Rahim Fortune visited the Bronner Bros. International Beauty Show in Atlanta in February 2020. He says he found a "sense of Black entrepreneurship in the space." Di'Amond Moore
Opinion: Remembering The Late Comedy Writer Anne Beatts NPR's Scott Simon remembers comedy writer Anne Beatts, who died this week at the age of 74. She worked in male-dominated writers' rooms at Saturday Night Live and National Lampoon magazine. Scott Simon
A visionary constellation of poetry, five decades in the making Lyric World presents the celebrated poet Arthur Sze Shin Yu Pai
Help Was On The Way For Shuttered Venues. Then The Website Crashed. The Small Business Administration launched an application portal for its $16 billion relief program for shuttered venues yesterday, but technical problems prompted deactivation for repair. Andrew Limbong
Alternative 80s In this music parody game, Reggie Watts and Kate Berlant listen to alternative 1980s songs about things that happened in the 80s — of other centuries.
Idioms Around The World Sasheer Zamata and Caitlin McGee (Home Economics) translate idioms from around the world. Don't get caught holding the candle!