by Neda Ulaby
Digital News editor and not-so-shy-singer Tanya Ballard Brown guest-hosts this week's podcast of NPR's best arts and culture stories. And allow me to point out from the offset that it takes real guts to launch into a rendition of a Julie Andrews classic right after hearing the singer in an interview that aired on Morning Edition. (In it, Andrews discusses her contributions to children's literature.)
Come to think of it, I should have asked Tanya to also grace us with a Bun B song. The Grammy-nominated rapper, in a piece for All Things Considered, analyzes his roots in early Southern rap and his deep karmic debt to the group Goodie Mob.
We've also got an interview with author-cum-screenwriter Dave Eggers on collaborating with director Spike Jonze on his poetic new adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are and a look at a popular male belly-dancing teacher in China.
And finally, my linguistic nitpicking leads me to a discussion of the way the word "modern" is used on design-oriented shows like Project Runway.
categories: Culturetopia
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