A Different Day: A 2021 Poetry Preview, Part 2 Poetry helps us express feelings that don't fit neatly into sentences; confusion and fear but also hope and joy. Here's the second installment of our look ahead at the most exciting poetry of 2021. Craig Morgan Teicher
Farewell To Our Senior Arts Editor Tom Cole Tom Cole, senior editor on NPR's Arts Desk, is retiring after 33 years of shepherding thousands of art pieces to broadcast. NPR bids him farewell. Bob Mondello
Vanessa Kirby and Ellen Burstyn On The Trauma Of Child Loss In 'Pieces Of A Woman' NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Vanessa Kirby and Ellen Burstyn about their new film, Pieces of a Woman, about a home birth gone terribly wrong and the destruction that follows.
Caro Verbeek: What Can The Scents Of The Past Tell Us About Our History? Each day, we breathe about 22,000 times--and all that time we smell. Scent historian Caro Verbeek recreates scents of the past. She says, just like music and art, smell is a part of our heritage. NPR/TED Staff
'Artists, Weirdos, Hellriders And Homies:' Thrasher Magazine Turns 40 Thrasher magazine was founded 40 years ago in San Francisco to cover skateboarding. Over the next four decades, the black-and-white newsprint magazine grew into a full color cultural arbiter. Milton Guevara
RadioActive's 2020 through stories and photos by teens Even though we couldn't meet in person for most of the year, RadioActive Youth Media still worked with about 300 young people in 2020 - creating 29 original radio stories, podcasts, and photojournalism essays. If you missed any of these incredible perspectives from young people, catch up here. RadioActive Youth Media
Prom Songs Comedian Baron Vaughn and musician Open Mike Eagle compete in a music parody game about slow prom songs changed to be about things you learned in high school.
Fact Bag Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton dip into the Fact Bag and ponder which genre of music yields the most delicious cheese. Is it rock, ambient, classical, techno, or hip-hop? But it's all gouda.
This, That, Or The Other From Funny or Die's Call & Response Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle suss out if something is a defunct startup, a video game world, or an esteemed contemporary dance company.
Real Or Fake 1930s Inventions Actors Mayim Bialik and Cheyenne Jackson determine if there was such a thing as a "Radio Hat" in a game of real or fake inventions from nearly a century ago.