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Michigan LGBT Youth Center Does Outreach With A Dance 'Hook'   The Ruth Ellis Center in Highland Park, Mich., is making an effort to meet its clients where they are — on the dance floor, specifically with the dance form known as "vogue." From there, the center can connect them with counseling, health services, tutoring and clean clothes. |
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You can give away almost anything — your time, money, food, your ideas. Giving helps define who we are and helps us connect with others. Thanks to the Internet and a rise in social consciousness, there's been a seismic shift not only in what we're giving, but how. In this hour, stories from TED speakers who are "giving it away" in new and surprising ways, and the things that happen in return. |
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How Do You Get People To Pay For Music? Don't make people pay for music, says musician Amanda Palmer: Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer, she examines the new relationship between artist and fan. |
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From The Heart Of Egypt's Revolt, The Pulse Of Artistic Life Egypt's capital has been associated with protest and political upheaval. But an arts festival attempts to clear away the dust and revitalize a once-glorious cultural hub. |
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Banksy Mural May Be Coming To U.S. After All The stencil of a young boy sewing the Union Jack is the centerpiece of an exhibition in London, after which it will head to the U.S. where it is to be part of a private collection. Organizers say Slave Labour is not being put up for sale, but residents of the London neighborhood from which it disappeared want it back. |
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A Fresh Answer To Vermeer's Mystery The work of the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer has long puzzled the art world. Some of his pieces just don't quite fit. They're a little off. What gives? Author Benjamin Binstock has an idea, an idea that commentator Alva Noë finds appealing. |
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'Show Boat' Steams On, Eternally American A revival of the Hammerstein-Kern classic showcases once again the rich tapestry and timeless themes of an American saga that changed the course of musical theater — and confronted audiences with painful truths about our history. |
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Family Fights Sale Of Iconic Thomas Cole Painting While serving as governor of New York, William Seward received a Thomas Cole landscape painting as a gift for his work on the Erie Canal. Since then, its value has exploded and its caretakers are looking to sell. On Tuesday, Seward's great-great-grandson will be in court to try to stop them. |
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The Real Costs Of Cheap Fashion The collapse of a Bangladesh clothing factory building has renewed worries about the ethics of the fashion industry. Host Michel Martin speaks with Pulitzer Prize winning fashion critic Robin Givhan about the real costs of cheap fashion. |
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Things Come (Very, Very) Apart Photographer Todd McLellan dismantles common household objects, then meticulously arranges the parts to show the inner workings of everyday stuff. |
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Behind The Curtain Of 'Disgraced' A play that tackles Islamophobia and questions of Muslim-American identity recently won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play is Disgraced, by first-time playwright Ayad Akhtar. He talks with guest host Celeste Headlee about his play and the significance of the award. |
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When Sculpting Cedar, This Artist Is Tireless And Unsentimental Ursula von Rydingsvard is 70 years old, but she still spends eight hours a day working massive blocks of cedar into sculptures. "I don't want the cuteness associated with the wood," she says, "or even the nostalgia." |
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When Tonys Tap Faves, Look For These Names The nominations for the 67th Tony Awards are due April 30, and Barbara Chai of The Wall Street Journal has seen pretty much every show on Broadway this season. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Chai about what she loved, what she hated and what's likely to make the Tony cut. |
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'Guilt Trip': Streisand On Songs, Film And Family Singer, actor, writer, director and producer Barbra Streisand plays a well-meaning if overbearing Jewish mom in The Guilt Trip. The star says her own mother both encouraged her talents and was jealous of them. |
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David Hyde Pierce On 'Song Travels' The TV and Broadway star performs his favorite standards and talks Beethoven, rap and Spamalot. |
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Chicano Males Stare Down Stereotypes Harry Gamboa Jr. makes portraits of Chicano men to challenge their portrayal in the media and show their strength of character. |
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'Pippin' Revival Is A Circus Of A Show The smash-hit '70s musical, which made a name for Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz, gets a shiny new production set at the circus — with real-life acrobats and Broadway pros alike in the center ring. |
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On Broadway, One Runt To Rule Them All Bob Mondello looks at Broadway's new child-friendly musical Matilda through the prism of his very first commentary for NPR 29 years ago today — a piece about how Annie was really Oliver! in drag. |
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Spirituality And Sprite, Aisle 1? What An Artist Sees In Wal-Mart Artist Brendan O'Connell's paintings find beauty in a cathedral of American consumerism. His thoughtful, unironic paintings of life inside Wal-Mart stores reflect on our relationship to brands and the search for "transcendence" in a shopping cart. |
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L.A. On B'way: Midler, Mengers Take Manhattan The Divine Miss M has had a colorful career, but even she's not as outsize a personality as larger-than-life Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers, whom she portrays in the new solo show I'll Eat You Last. Midler spoke with NPR's Rachel Martin about the role, her career and her love of classic Hollywood. |
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Beauty surrounds us, draws us in, gives joy and creates conflict. In this hour, TED speakers conjure up beauty both ancient and modern, and suggest reasons why humans are hardwired to crave and respond to beauty. |
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In 'Which Way,' A War Photographer In His Element Writer-director Sebastian Junger remembers his friend and colleague Tim Hetherington, killed in April 2011 by mortar fire in the Libyan city of Misrata. |
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On Independence Day, A Subdued Syrian Capital Damascus would normally host a parade on independence day. But the streets are largely empty, aside from jittery government security forces manning checkpoints. |
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China's Growing Debt Raises Alarms Robert Siegel speaks with Simon Rabinovitch, reporter for the Financial Times based in Beijing, about his piece on Chinese debt and why both outsiders and insiders are worried about China's economic situation. |
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Large Police Presence Surrounds Margaret Thatcher's Funeral Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest in a funeral attended by dignitaries from around the globe as well as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on Wednesday. It's the first funeral of a British politician attended by the Queen since Sir Winston Churchill's in 1965. |
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'Modern Art Desserts': How To Bake A Mondrian In Your Oven Caitlin Freeman is an artist who uses sweet confections as her primary medium. Her desserts are clever culinary homages to the great works of art that hang at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her new book details how to re-create some of her edible art at home. |
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For Thatcher, 'A Great Calm' After A Life Of Controversy The former British prime minister was remembered Wednesday at a funeral in London. Queen Elizabeth II was among those in attendance. Thatcher died last week. She was 87. |
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IAEA Team Probes Fukushima's Radioactive Water A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency is in Japan visiting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The visit comes a week after reports emerged that large amounts of radioactive water had leaked from reservoirs where it was being stored. |
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Psychologist Nancy Etcoff explains why beauty inspires and motivates us. Etcoff says our response to beauty is visceral. |
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India Refuses Permission For Country's First Playboy Club The Goa state government says it cannot grant permission for the new club, which was to be the first of eight to be built over the next three years in India. |
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Boston's Art Museums Offer Free Admission To Provide A 'Place Of Respite' Two art museums in Boston are offering free admission Tuesday in the wake of the explosions at the Boston Marathon. They hope that residents will find comfort and community. |
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Italy's Financial Crisis Means More (Bread) Dough At Home A third of Italians are now making pizza at home, and 19 percent are baking their own bread, an association of Italian farmers reports. Bakeries are adapting by by offering prepared food, and more importantly, sandwiches. |
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China Gives Breakdown Of Its Military, Criticizes U.S. For the first time, China gives numbers for its ground, air and naval forces. It also slams the U.S. for its shift to Asia. |
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IMF Lowers 2013 Economic Growth Forecasts The International Monetary Fund has lowered its projections for global economic growth, including in the United States, citing sharp cuts in government spending and the struggling eurozone. |
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Strong Earthquake Shakes Iran, Deaths Reported The estimated 7.8 magnitude temblor was felt across the region. Buildings swayed in India's capital. |
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Venezuela's Presidential Election Remains Disputed The government declared Nicolas Maduro the winner Sunday night. He's the man picked by the late Hugo Chavez to become president. Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles is challenging his narrow defeat. |
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Is The United States A 'Dispensable Nation'? In his new book, The Dispensable Nation, former State Department adviser Vali Nasr explores the state of U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan and beyond. Nasr says the U.S. "is happy ... to play a less important role, to no longer be the stabilizer." |
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Letters Of Heartbreak Find Some Love In Verona, Italy Each year, the town of Verona, Italy — home of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet — receives thousands of letters of unrequited love addressed to the play's star-crossed heroine. And each letter — more than 6,000 a year — is answered by hand by a team of secretaries at the Juliet Club. |
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Germany Braces For Terrorism Trial For years, authorities failed to see links in the killings of nine immigrants and a German policewoman. Now, a trial that will focus on right-wing extremists is about to begin. |
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Venezuela Says Recount Likely After Chavez Heir's Close Win The initial vote count shows Nicolas Maduro with a scant edge over challenger Henrique Capriles. Maduro, who was Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor, had been expected to win easily. |
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Retaliating Against U.S., Russia Bars 18 Americans The already-frayed relations between the U.S. and Russia have unraveled even more over the past several days. Russia has published a list of 18 Americans who will be barred from entering the country because of their alleged involvement in human rights violations. |
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Chavez Successor Wins Presidential Election In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor, Nicolas Maduro, won a razor-thin victory in Sunday's special presidential election. He edged out the opposition's leader by only about 300,000 votes, electoral officials announced. |
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China Reports 13 Bird Flu Deaths; Cases Climb To 60 Health officials in China say they've confirmed 11 new bird flu diagnoses, bringing the number of H7N9 infections to 60, according to the official Xinhua news agency. The virus, which began in eastern China, has now sickened at least one person in Beijing, and two in the central province of Henan. |
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Jetliner Crashes Into Sea Near Runway In Bali; All Aboard Safe More than 100 passengers survived a crash into the sea, after the Boeing 737 they were traveling on from West Java to Bali, Indonesia, missed the runway at Denpasar International Airport. The plane came to rest in shallow waters, simplifying rescue efforts. Photographs showed the Lion Air jet in the water, its fuselage broken just behind its wings. |
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A 'Caesar' With An African Accent The plays of William Shakespeare are known for their enduring universality, so the Royal Shakespeare Company's new production of Julius Caesar -- set in a chaotic African dictatorship, with an all-black cast — makes a certain sense. |
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Russia's Putin Announces $50 Billion In New Space Spending The Russian president says the part of the money will go to complete a new launch facility under construction in the country's far east. |
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Kerry: U.S. Will Not Accept A Nuclear-Armed North Korea Secretary of State John Kerry is in Seoul, South Korea, at a time of escalating tension on the Korean peninsula. There are expectations that North Korea might soon launch a medium-range missile. |
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'Matilda' Brings Beloved Book To Broadway Roald Dahl's beloved children's novel is set to hit the stage as a Broadway musical. The musical's creators say the show skews closer to the beloved book than to Danny DeVito's 1996 movie, leaning more on the original's naughty charm. |
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'American Utopias': From Disney World To Zuccotti Park In his new one-man show, American Utopias, award-winning monologist Mike Daisey ties together three unlikely places: Disney World, Zuccotti Park — the home base of the Occupy Wall Street movement — and the annual arts event Burning Man. He talks the production and his search for his own utopia. |
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Was Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. An Ordinary Guy? The Mountaintop is an award-winning play about the night Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died. But some critics don't love playwright Katori Hall's portrayal of the civil rights icon as a regular guy. Hall tells host Michel Martin why she found it important to focus on the man, not the myth. |
