Month: October 2024

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon about her poem engraved on NASA’s spaceship headed 1.8 billion miles to the Jupiter moon of Europa.

The animated film Piece By Piece traces Pharrell’s early life as a boy growing up in Virginia Beach and follows his trajectory to a Grammy-winning songwriter, performer and producer.

I’m scared, but I have to keep moving. To stop is to die, or, worse, to be force-fed a clip of Ricky Gervais saying words.

A septuagenarian multi-media artist is on a road trip with two young filmmakers and a new print of a groundbreaking movie she made three decades ago.

What do the films Men in Black, The Addams Family and Raising Arizona all have in common? They were all shot by cinematographer and director Barry Sonnenfeld. He’s responsible for filming and directing some of the biggest movies from the 20th century. He joins us to talk about his new memoir and reflect on his many years in show business.

In 2001, actors Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal gained international fame as co-stars in Y Tu Mamá También. They were best friends off-screen, too – and they’re together again in Hulu’s first Spanish-language original series, La Máquina.

(Image credit: Erica Hernandez for NPR)

New York is known for its street food vendors. NPR spent time with a recently arrived migrant who is hitting the streets to sell for the first time, but has to overcome his crippling shyness.

Renowned soul and gospel singer Cissy Houston has died. She was part of a extraordinary musical family that included Dionne Warwick and her superstar daughter, Whitney Houston.

(Image credit: Michael Buckner)

Many music lovers consider Ives, who died in 1954, to be the first truly great American composer. A new recording by pianist Donald Berman is a major addition to the Ives discography.

Will Ferrell and his longtime friend and former SNL writing partner Harper Steele traveled from New York to California, talking along the way about Steele coming out as a trans woman.