Art & Design Donald Judd Found Perfect Canvas In Texas Town January 31, 2009 • In the 1970s, Judd grew frustrated with cramped New York gallery spaces and moved to Texas. There, he found the tiny town of Marfa, where he pursued his ambitious dream of creating an indoor-outdoor museum where works of art could come alive beneath wide blue skies and sharp Texas light. Donald Judd Found Perfect Canvas In Texas Town Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/99130809/100103375" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Music Interviews Harvey Pekar Makes His Opera Debut January 31, 2009 • Leave Me Alone is a new jazz opera by writer and social commentator Harvey Pekar and saxophonist and composer Dan Plonsey about the future of cutting-edge music and marital discord. Harvey Pekar Makes His Opera Debut Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/100031337/100104624" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Music Interviews Minnelli's New Show Honors Musical Godmother January 31, 2009 • Kay Thompson was a musical director for MGM Studios, the author of the Eloise children's books and the star of her own long-running nightclub act. Liza Minnelli pays tribute to her real-life godmother in her latest, sold-out revue. Minnelli's New Show Honors Musical Godmother Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/100068652/100103376" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Technology Some Technology Leaves The Blind Behind January 30, 2009 • For those who can't rely on vision or hearing to guide their navigation of consumer electronics devices, doing simple tasks can become a huge challenge. Meanwhile, the price of many of the devices created specifically for the blind or deaf is anything but accessible — and would give most consumers sticker shock. Some Technology Leaves The Blind Behind Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/100029415/100049680" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Performing Arts 'Dusty': PBS Vet Takes Kids' TV Out Of The Box January 30, 2009 • In 2005, PBS decided not to air an episode of a children's show because it featured a family with gay parents. Now a real-life kids'-TV writer has built a stage play around the story behind the episode that didn't air. 'Dusty': PBS Vet Takes Kids' TV Out Of The Box Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/100062799/100073951" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Summary Judgment New Movies: 'New In Town,' 'Taken' And 'The Uninvited' January 30, 2009 • Writer Mark Jordan Legan takes us through reviews of three news films. Which is more deserving of the price of admission, New In Town, a comedy about a Miami businesswoman who relocates to a tiny city in Minnesota or Taken, an action film about a former spy who rescues his daughter from the slave trade? And then there's also The Uninvited to consider, a thriller about a young woman who returns home after a stint in a mental hospital to find a ghost. New Movies: 'New In Town,' 'Taken' And 'The Uninvited' Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/100057058/100057031" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Movies 'Harvard Beats Yale': Winning By Not Winning Fresh Air January 30, 2009 • Critic-at-large John Powers reviews Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, the new documentary about the famous 1968 game. 'Harvard Beats Yale': Winning By Not Winning Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/100054481/100054546" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Lifestyles & Trends: Obama As Pop Culture Icon? January 30, 2009 • The current issue of Entertainment Weekly announces on the cover that "Obama Is Changing Pop Culture Forever." Newsweek correspondent and News & Notes co-host, Allison Samuels, sat down with Sean Smith, the Los Angeles Bureau Chief of Entertainment Weekly, for a conversation about how he thinks this change is coming. Lifestyles & Trends: Obama As Pop Culture Icon? Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/100065175/100065156" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Review Movies 'Taken' Lightly: An Unintentionally Funny Abduction January 30, 2009 • When kidnappers steal his teenage daughter from a Paris hotel, an ex-spy takes matters into his own hands and plunges into the underworld of human trafficking. 'Taken' Lightly: An Unintentionally Funny Abduction Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/99904618/100049753" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Review Movies A City Girl And A Townie, In A Slushy Romance January 30, 2009 • Renee Zellweger jumps out of the corporate frying pan and into the snow in New in Town, a fish-out-of-water farce set in Minnesota. Harry Connick Jr. keeps her company, but hardly turns up the heat.
Technology What's Accessible? Gadgets For The Blind And Deaf January 29, 2009 • A new videophone provides real-time communication for the deaf, and electronic readers and GPS devices help blind users get around. They are part of an array of gadgets that enable people to navigate the world a little easier.
Pop Culture Bill Paxton Brings A Whole Lotta 'Love' To HBO Fresh Air January 29, 2009 • Bill Paxton plays Bill Henrickson, the head of a polygamous family in the HBO series Big Love. He received Golden Globe nominations for his work on the show in 2007 and 2008. Bill Paxton Brings A Whole Lotta 'Love' To HBO Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/99985715/99985714" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Review Movies A Family's Affairs, In A Venue Full Of Surprises January 29, 2009 • Melodrama takes center stage in Serbis, Brillante Mendoza's gritty but warm portrait of a struggling Filipino family. Their adult-movie house might be sinking, but their lives are overflowing.
Review Movies In 'Match,' A Story of Resistance Is Illuminated January 29, 2009 • Director Roberta Grossman sketches a portrait of Hannah Senesh, a Hungarian-born woman living in Palestine who trained as a paratrooper and returned to her homeland to organize resistance to the Nazis.
Review Movies Terence Davies, In Search Of Lost Liverpool January 29, 2009 • A montage of sound, music and memory, Of Time and the City goes beyond the Beatles in a memorial to Liverpool's past. Director Terence Davies guides his audience through the streets of his native city.