Arts & Culture

May 23 2013 - 6:26pm

We learn about the right-wing troubadours who pioneered an obscure genre of music known as “conservative folk” in the 1960s. They saw their music and lyrics as a way to fight the influence of communists and hippies on the youth of America.    It sounds like science fiction, but neurosc...

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May 23 2013 - 6:22pm

If we’re honest with ourselves, we can all probably remember back to a childhood instance when we felt insufferably bored by a grade-school history textbook.  It wasn’t the history that that was boring – it was reading about it in those dry pages peppered with long-ago dates and unfamilia...

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May 23 2013 - 6:16pm

On May 20th, The Stoop hosted an evening of live storytelling called, “Eureka:  Stories about discoveries, breakthroughs, and brave new worlds.”  One of the storytellers was Richard Huganir.  Dr. Huganir is Director of the Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. &n...

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May 23 2013 - 6:12pm

Memo to Fox staffers shows character, righteousness, leadership

Memo to Fox staffers shows character, righteousness.

May 23 2013 - 6:10pm

Believe it or not, there used to be right-wing counterparts to the left-leaning folk troubadours of the anti-war movement, and their work has been collected in the anthology, Freedom is a Hammer: Conservative Folk Revolutionaries of the Sixties. Cultural historian Bill Geerhart talks with Lisa Morga...

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May 23 2013 - 5:48pm

The latest documentary from the prolific Alex Gibney digs into the genesis — and the implications — of what creator Julian Assange describes as "an intelligence agency of the people." (Recommended)

May 23 2013 - 5:00pm

Rama Burshtein's ravishing family story is a love poem to life in an insular community — the ultra-Orthodox Hasidim of Tel Aviv, where the director lives. Studiously nonpolitical, it's a low-stakes story with the emotional punch of high drama. (Recommended)

May 23 2013 - 3:19pm

In June, NPR's Backseat Book Club will read Katherine Applegate's tale of Ivan, a gorilla who lives in a shopping mall. Ivan enjoys watching TV and painting, but a newcomer to the mall — a baby elephant — forces Ivan to face his own past.

May 23 2013 - 3:07pm

Forrest, 87, was the brother of actor Dana Andrews and starred in the ABC series 'S.W.A.T.' from 1975 to 1976.

May 23 2013 - 3:00pm

Can you imagine your own superhero? That's the question author and illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka posed to kids on a recent afternoon at a school in Washington, D.C. Krosoczka also described how he overcame a difficult childhood to become the author of the beloved Lunch Lady series.