Admit it. You want to know what Monkey See blogger Linda Holmes sounds like.
This is where Culturetopia comes in.
Every week, Linda and I work with NPR arts producers and editors to curate our new-ish podcast. You can subscribe to the podcast, or if you're more of an instant-gratification person, you can listen here.
Culturetopia is a collection of some of our favorite NPR stories about music, movies, art, TV and more. This week, we hear about a potential "sonic musical social castration." That's how one Detroit musician describes the possible closing of one of the oldest continuously operating jazz clubs in the world.
Location scout Kokayi Ampah tells host Michelle Norris about his search for the perfect beach for the movie Flags of Our Fathers and the most poignantly lonely tree in Ohio for The Shawshank Redemption.
And have you ever wondered exactly how to use the expression "Dag?" Novelist Colson Whitehead explains, as he brings us into the world of his latest book, Sag Harbor, about black teenagers summering in the Hamptons.
And we learn another new word: "bookaneers." They were the scurvy book pirates who brawled for the first manuscripts of Charles Dickens' writings when they first arrived from England. Matthew Pearl lightly fictionalized the author's trip to America in 1867 in his new book, The Last Dickens, and he describes Dickens as the era's biggest rock star.
We also return to the post you saw right in this space a week ago to talk about superhero fan films.
Finally, film critic Ken Turan is no different from most other earthlings, in that he adored the new Star Trek movie. You can hear his thoughts about its complicated humanism by beaming Culturetopia into your MP3 player.
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