Articles tagged with 'npr' — 6 found
“In Small Things Forgotten”
The "aesthetic of the ugly" has persisted with the folk culture of making ugly-face pottery. Man, archeologists love them some old pottery, too. “Some things in our lives are so pervasive, that we give them little thought. A ballpoint pen, for example, or a rubberband. The coffee filter gets little consideration too.” It is a [...]
December 22nd, 2011Ten years later.
Taken at 9:59 a.m., New Yorkers witness the collapse of the South Tower. Each face is more powerful than the next. By freelance photographer Patrick Witty. We’ll call this the requisite commentary-on-the-anniversary blog. Probably every American is reflecting on that Tuesday, September 11 ten years ago, in their own way, to many different degrees of [...]
September 9th, 2011StoryCorps and the lives of ordinary people
Recently I’ve taken a keen interest in oral histories, and in the technical and artistic feats behind creating audio stories and making them powerful and relevant. I am overwhelmed by how natural the journalists on NPR and its member stations make it seem. There is a lot of work, a lot of practice–and a lot [...]
February 28th, 2011Historian Sean Wilentz on Glenn Beck: “Confounding Fathers”
The Tea Party Historian Sean Wilentz, a professor at Princeton University, was on Fresh Air talking with Terry Gross about the roots of the Tea Party in 1950s Cold War politics. He has an article on it, “The Confounding Fathers: The Tea Party’s Cold War Roots,” in The New Yorker this week as well, on [...]
October 13th, 2010Steve McCurry’s Kodachrome career, and legacy
The famous Afghan Girl, taken by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry You may not recognize the name Steve McCurry, but I bet you have a vivid memory of this photo, and maybe a vague notion of the story behind it. McCurry has made a career out of photographing the world’s faces, many of which have [...]
July 28th, 2010An idol for the “emperors”
On the way to work this morning, I heard part of this report from NPR, about a wildly popular young writer who defines himself as “the voice of a generation.” He is a pop culture figure in China, a twenty-five-year-old who sounded a bit narcissistic to say the least. His appeal to the “little emperors”– [...]
May 28th, 2009