'Youth' In Themes And Variations
Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino creates a world of incidents and asides in a Swiss spa hotel, where pals played by Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel like to get away from it all.
Arts & Life
A Cloud Of Gloom Over 'Every Thing Will Be Fine'
Directed by Wim Wenders, the film features James Franco as a man whose pain over a single tragedy follows him for years.
How Chicago's Slaughterhouse Spectacles Paved The Way For Big Meat
Opened in 1865, Chicago's Union Stock Yard was the greatest livestock market the world had seen. Tourists watched masses of animals move through kill floors, a sight hailed as a miracle of modernity.
Movie Review: 'The Lady In The Van'
The Lady in the Van is the true story of a homeless woman who moved into a playwright's driveway for three weeks and stayed for 15 years. NPR film critic Bob Mondello says it's both funny and frail.
Death By Coconut: A Story Of Food Obsession Gone Too Far
August Engelhardt believed coconuts were a nutritional and spiritual panacea. So in 1902, he sailed to the South Pacific to start a utopian cult that survived only on the fruit. It ended calamitously.
Top CIA 'Spymasters' Agree: We Can't Kill Our Way Out Of Terrorism
Filmmakers Chris Whipple and Jules Naudet discuss their Showtime documentary, Spymasters, which features 12 former CIA directors discussing the tough choices they've had to make in fighting terrorism.
I Second That Emotion
Invisibilia hosts Lulu Miller and Alix Spiegel talk about science, story, and self-help.
National Public Roundup
We put the "fun" in "funding credits" in this game where we tweak NPR's classic on-air acknowledgements.
Fictional Full Names
We quiz contestants on some famous characters known only by their nickname.
Living On My Hair
From Questlove to Jennifer Aniston, it's really the hair that makes the icon. We rewrote the Bon Jovi song "Livin' on a Prayer" to be about famous people with famous hair.