PRI: Public Radio International

Kurt Andersen

back 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 next last total: 106 | displaying: 11 - 20

Eugene Mirman vs. the Time Warner Cable guy

image
When the Time Warner Cable guy didn't show up to his house (twice), comedian Eugene Mirman got mad. Then he took out full-page ads in New York papers.
Full story

Book of Mormon composer Robert Lopez plays songs from the show

image
Robert Lopez, who teamed up with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker to create the new musical Book of Mormon, plays some of the songs from the show.
Full story

Is primetime TV really filled with left-wing propaganda?

image
Television execs and writers are filling the airwaves with liberal propaganda, according to one cultural critic, and conservatives are being left behind.
Full story

Art market booming during the recession

image
Despite the recession still affecting most of the country, this spring's art auctions produced record-breaking prices of blue-chip artists like Andy Warhol.
Full story

Osama Bin Laden's Hollywood ending

image
September 11th "seemed like a movie" to many, and Osama Bin Laden's death had that same familiar ring.
Full story

David Simon, Treme and flooding in Louisiana

image
The creator of The Wire talks about his HBO drama Treme, set in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana.
Full story

REM's Michael Stipe on the new album Collapse into Now

image
For R.E.M.’s newest album, Collapse into Now, the band commissioned a short film for every song on the record. Michael Stipe talks about the new album and the films.
Full story

Songs for the Mississippi River flooding

image
The Mississippi River is flooding to historic levels. Some are comparing it to the devastating flood of 1927, which a tragedy that inspired a generation of blues artists.
Full story

Susan Vega on her one-woman show: Carson McCullers Talks About Love

image
Singer songwriter Susan Vega, of "Tom's Diner" fame, talks about her new, one-woman show Carson McCullers Talks About Love.
Full story

Fake Shakespeare by Arthur Phillips

image
For his new novel about a fake Shakespeare play, Arthur Phillips wrote a full-length Shakespearean play.
Full story
back 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 next last total: 106 | displaying: 11 - 20
Follow Listen Support PRI's Global Reporting: Important Stories Powerful Storytelling