Tag: Arts & Life

We’ve invited Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought, to play a game called “It’s great, just great! But we have a few notes.” Three questions about “suits” — network executives who oversee movies and TV.

Musician Juan Wauters talks about how he created a hip-hop song for his new album, Real Life Situations.

The daredevil aviator in Maggie Shipstead’s new novel was inspired by Amelia Earhart. Shipstead says she wants to investigate the difference between death and a disappearances like Earhart’s

“Phosphôros,” made in El Salvador, is on the shortlist for a World Health Organization short film competition. Winners will be named May 13. Until then, the public can tune in — and weigh in.

Martha Wells’ new Murderbot novella is a classic locked-room mystery — only the locked room is a docked shuttle at a normally peaceful space station ill-equipped to deal with murder and mayhem.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Radio Diaries creator Joe Richman about some of the people he’s introduced us to over the past 25 years and how documenting one’s life has changed over time.

Chinese director Zhang Yimou tells an epic tale of subterfuge and spies in Cliff Walkers. And in the Scottish dramedy Limbo, a young musician is stranded in a starkly beautiful no-man’s-land.

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.

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.

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.”

Rutherford Falls’ co-creator Sierra Teller Ornelas talks about Native American representation in her new sitcom, and explains what “bank plants” are.

Actor Mary Holland and director Maureen Bharoocha (Golden Arm) guess if the failed products described are real or fake.