The wood-products industry is undergoing root-and-branch change …
18 minutes ago … Ever more money grows on trees | Business. … Because the forest business reflects the decades-long sylvan lifecycle, this 40-year-old … (Feed generated with FetchRSS)
NPR News: Germany Will Repatriate Benin Bronzes, Plundered From Africa In The 19th Century
German officials announced they have reached an agreement with Nigeria to return artifacts looted from the ancient Kingdom of Benin and now housed in German museums; other nations also hold bronzes.
NPR News: Kate Winslet On The Roles That Scare Her And How ‘Titanic’ Shaped Her Career
Winslet stars in the new HBO series, Mare of Easttown. She spoke to Fresh Air in 2020 about her breakout turn in Titanic when she was in her 20s. “I was learning on the fly,” she says.
NPR News: ‘Fresh Air’ Remembers Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins
Collins, who died April 27, orbited in Apollo 11 while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic moon walk. Speaking to Fresh Air in 1988, he described his solo orbit as “completely serene.”
NPR News: Sierra Teller Ornelas: Rutherford Falls
Rutherford Falls’ co-creator Sierra Teller Ornelas talks about Native American representation in her new sitcom, and explains what “bank plants” are.
NPR News: Good Tries
Actor Mary Holland and director Maureen Bharoocha (Golden Arm) guess if the failed products described are real or fake.
NPR News: The Chortle Instruments
Actor Mary Holland and director Maureen Bharoocha (Golden Arm) listen to clips of unusual musical instruments. The title of this game is a gratuitous pun of a series of young adult fantasy novels.
NPR News: My ‘Kind’ Of Music
Maria Bamford and Richard Kind (Everything’s Gonna Be Okay) play a word game celebrating Kind’s musical theater performances, even the performances he doesn’t remember very well.
NPR News: Has This Been To Space?
The hilarious Maria Bamford and Richard Kind (Everything’s Gonna Be Okay) guess if various objects have been to space. But they’re all silly objects, because “Soyuz capsule” is kind of a gimmie.
NPR News: Check-In: Sweet Sixteen
Jonathan Coulton’s daughter just turned 16. He and Ask Me Another host Ophira Eisenberg discuss the bittersweet passage of time.
NPR News: Bittersweet Film ‘About Endlessness’ Highlights Life’s Humor And Despair
A priest loses his faith. A woman breaks the heel of her shoe. A couple visits their child’s grave. Life unfolds as a series of stylized, bone-dry comic sketches in Roy Andersson’s sublime new film.
NPR News: Return For Mickey, Stay For The Churros: Disneyland Reopens After 13 Months
“I can’t wait to just be there and feel it and listen to the music and smell the churros,” says Robert Laird, a Disney megafan.
Archives
- May 2021 (125)
- April 2021 (91)