While poking around for Christmas music, I found this little-known recording of Louis Armstrong reading ‘Twas The Night Be ...

Blockbuster auteur Christopher Nolan’s next movie will be an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey. Here’s what we k ...

Writer Karen Attiah recently wrote about the pleasure of perusing other people’s personal libraries and then asked her fol ...

I posted this picture of my jade plant flowering on BS and a lot of people expressed surprise that jade plants flower, and I ...

Well this is something special, a holiday treat for the end of 2024: a group of archivists (including Chris Person) has ...

Vanity Fair has done a video interview Billie Eilish every year since she was a relatively unknown 15-year-old ...

The only Christmas music I want to hear this year is The Muppets doing Carol of the Bells. Beaker, Animal, and the Swedish ...

This is a really interesting video about something called the gang-nail plate, a construction innovation that enabled larger ...

Writer Karen Attiah recently wrote about the pleasure of perusing other people’s personal libraries and then asked her ...

At an event last month marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker, actor Bryan Cranst ...

During the pandemic, Billie Eilish did a Tiny Desk Concert at home amidst a very faithful recreation of the NPR office. Last ...

And as always when I post about Ricky Jay, I recommend Mark Singer’s irresistible 1993 profile of Jay, which begins with this story: The playwright David Mamet and the theatre director Gregory Mosher ...