DAVID GREENE, HOST: LA has tens of thousands of street vendors. But there's no system for them to operate legally. Now there's a movement to change that. As Parker Yesko reports, one thing helping is local resistance to President Trump's immigration...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Korean pop, or K-pop as it's known, has been huge - all the rage for a long time. It's a dance style, and it takes some serious training. NPR's Elise Hu and Code Switch's Kat Chow found out the hard way. ELISE HU, BYLINE: If you'...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Korean pop, or K-pop as it's known, has been huge - all the rage for a long time. It's a dance style, and it takes some serious training. NPR's Elise Hu and Code Switch's Kat Chow found out the hard way. ELISE HU, BYLINE: If you'...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the novel The Windfall, a newly minted tech millionaire buys a big fancy house, a flashy car, and he leaves his middle-class life behind to rub elbows with the superrich. What follows is a delightful comedy of errors whe...
(SOUNDBITE OF CORDUROI'S MY DEAR) LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Time now for The Call-In. It's wedding season. And today we're talking about love. We asked you for your stories, advice and questions. JENNIFER INGRAHAM: Hi, NPR listeners. This is Jennife...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the early to mid-1980s, John McEnroe was the top ranked men's tennis player in the world, winning Wimbledon three times and the U.S. Open four. He also became known for his outbursts, like this one on the court when he t...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now for an improbable love story. Now, here you might be thinking, aren't the bookshelves groaning with those? But here's a love story that did not just change two people's lives. It shed light on inequalities that our next guest...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, it might be hard to imagine this but some people still find rock music hard to take. But even if that's you, I bet it was hard to resist this song. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, RADIOACTIVE) IMAGINE DRAGONS: (Singing) I'm wa...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: We now get a rare look inside a French prison. Officials in France say prisons have become incubators of extremism. Many of the homegrown terrorists who've launched attacks in places like Paris and Brussels recently were ra...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: President Trump is well into his presidency, but the White House is lagging far behind when it comes to hiring for key positions across the government. So NPR's Vanessa Romo got a few pro tips on how to frame those help-wan...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Alaska's Prudhoe Bay Oil Field started production 40 years ago this month. Twelve billion barrels of oil later, it's completely reshaped Alaska. Finding Prudhoe Bay led to a major economic boom and also to the Exxon Valdez...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Today we have an update to a story we first told back in 2004. That September, NPR's Claudio Sanchez set out to document one of the biggest days in a kid's life, the first day of kindergarten. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST) MA...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Berlin, 1940. A young German officer is given a new mission. The Reich is sending him to Holland to guard the exiled former German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE EXCEPTION) ANTON LESSER: (As General Falkenberg...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: He brooded as Lincoln, seduced in The Unbearable Lightness Of Being and murdered in There Will Be Blood. This week, Daniel Day-Lewis, three-time Oscar winner and incomparable film chameleon, announced he's retiring from acting at...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The controversy over a production of Julius Caesar depicting Caesar as Donald Trump is spreading. In the play, Caesar is assassinated. The production in question was by New York's Public Theater, part of its Shakespeare in the Pa...
