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Sunday, June 12, 2011
Art & Design
A Spirited Celebration Of America's 'Cocktail Culture'
June 12, 2011 Walking through the exhibit at the Rhode Island School of Design's Museum of Art is like attending an elegant, witty cocktail party over the course of six decades. There's a lot to drink in.
Books
Poet Battles Cancer With A Hundred Poems
June 12, 2011 James Nave confronted the disease the best way he knew how: with words. He vowed to write a poem a day for the hundred days following surgery.
Sunday, June 05, 2011
Opinion
Naipaul's Comments Reflective Of 'Hubris'
June 5, 2011 The Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul told an interviewer in London this week that no woman could ever be his literary match. In a spirited response, guest host Jacki Lyden defends women of letters.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Rising Up From Prostitution In Nashville
A Business That Helps Prostitutes Bloom In Recovery
April 27, 2011 For prostitutes looking to get drug free and off the streets, a program in Nashville, Tenn., provides a model for healing. They work at a company called Thistle Farms making lotions, balms and paper. Their emblem is a flowering thistle, whose ability to survive matches their own.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Rising Up From Prostitution In Nashville
Relapse And Recovery: A Tale Of Two Prostitutes
April 26, 2011 Tara Adcock and Sheila Simpkins used to be bad girls, but it's been years since they turned tricks together. They completed a two-year recovery program in Nashville called Magdalene. Program residents know that relapse is part of recovery, and for these friends, one manages to hold steady while the other stumbles.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Rising Up From Prostitution In Nashville
For Prostitutes, An Alternative To The Streets
April 25, 2011 Magdalene is a two-year residential program in Nashville, Tenn., for women with criminal histories of addiction and prostitution. There's therapy, and they also make bath oils and candles, products that its founder — a former Episcopal priest — say promote healing. The message is: Love heals.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The Picture Show
The Toll Of Covering Conflict
April 20, 2011 NPR Host Jacki Lyden writes about photojournalists and conflict, in wake of the deaths of photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Europe
Life Below The City Of Light: Paris Underground
January 30, 2011 Paris really is a tale of two cities: One of them above ground, with its beloved Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. And then there's the city very few us will ever see — an underground Paris — the souterrain. NPR and National Geographic team up to explore what lies below.
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Around the Nation
Into The Tunnels: Exploring The Underside Of NYC
January 2, 2011 Steve Duncan lives dangerously: The urban explorer has plunged far below the city surface to examine the subways and sewers of New York. Follow him on one of his (illegal) journeys through the city's underground.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Monkey See
Favorite Books Of 2010: Jacki Lyden Chooses A New 'Madame Bovary'
December 30, 2010 Jacki Lyden calls Lydia Davis' new translation of Madame Bovary one in which the heroine is "translated to perfect pitch."
Saturday, August 07, 2010
Opinion
The Land Of The Care-Free
August 7, 2010 A federal judge in Richmond refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the state of Virginia that challenges the new health-care law. Not too far away, in the rural southwestern part of the state, crowds of the uninsured lined up for an annual free health clinic.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
