Arts
PRI's The World
October 27, 2017
When you walk around New Orleans, you can see the Haitian influence everywhere, from the creole cottages to the jambalaya. And thousands of New Orleanians trace their ancestry back to the island. This connection had one journalist asking, is the feeling mutual?
Science, Tech & Environment
Lake Mead
March 18, 2008
Climatologist Tim Barnett talks about the troubles facing the nation's largest reservoir, Lake Mead, which is low on water due to reduced snowfall in the Rockies and the effects of climate change.
Arts, Culture & Media
Upright Citizens Brigade
April 02, 2008
Matt Besser and Matt Walsh, two members of the improv comedy group the Upright Citizens Brigade, talk to Faith about their new DVD, "ASSSSCAT."
Science, Tech & Environment
Growing Hope in New Orleans
Living on Earth
June 05, 2009
Will Bradshaw of Green Coast Enterprises tells Living on Earth about Project Sprout, a test plot of sunflowers in New Orleans. The sunflowers will remove heavy metals from contaminated soils and the sunflower seeds will be pressed to make biofuels.
Arts, Culture & Media
Global hit - BellX1
PRI's The World
February 18, 2008
The World's Clark Boyd profiles Irish rock band, Bell X1. The group is popular in Ireland, and now it's trying to break into the US music scene.
Arts, Culture & Media
Geo Answer + Global Hit
PRI's The World
April 25, 2008
The answer to our Geo Quiz is Bristol, England, home to the music style known as "trip-hop." Anchor Katy Clark tells us about British nostalgia for a couple of bands that made "trip-hop" so popular a decade ago.
Conflict & Justice
Baseball in Japanese internment camps
PRI's The World
July 04, 2008
During World War II, more than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were placed in internment camps in the United States; they couldn't earn money, practice their religion
Arts, Culture & Media
Global Hit - Julieta Venegas
PRI's The World
October 06, 2008
US-born Mexican pop star Julieta Venegas has gone unplugged and on the road. And as The World's William Troop tells us, she likes playing her new sound for Latino audiences in the United States.
Arts, Culture & Media
Global Hit - Natacha Atlas
PRI's The World
November 07, 2008
Egyptian-British singer Natacha Atlas looks for ways to make Arabic and western music sit comfortably together. For her latest tour, she's gone acoustic. Anchor Marco Werman tells us more.
Arts, Culture & Media
Bach on Mars
PRI's The World
November 10, 2008
Space probes have shown us what other planets look like, but what do they sound like?
Conflict & Justice
California man charged with terror offenses
PRI's The World
December 19, 2008
Reporter Rob Schmitz updates us on the case of a California man who's been charged with terror offenses in the United Arab Emirates.