LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the film Beatriz At Dinner, Salma Hayek plays a masseuse who is invited to a dinner party after her car breaks down at her wealthy client's house. There she meets a powerful real estate developer played by John Lithgow w...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: We're in the holy month of Ramadan, when observant Muslims fast from just before sun up all the way until sunset. At the end of a day of going almost 16 hours without, Muslims often gather together to eat in mosques and hom...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Time now for a bit of our summer series Backstage Pass, and perfect timing because the Tonys are tonight, the 71st annual Tony Awards, Broadway's highest honor. This evening at Radio City Music Hall, the marquee names will...
LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: For nearly five decades actor Sam Elliott with his deep drawl, steady gaze and, of course, that mustache has made his mark on generations of fans from his first gig as an extra in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid two roles in T...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Now that the pools are open and families are heading back to the beaches, it's time to pack the cooler, choose a beach read and pick out your swimsuit - except this season, it's going to be a challenge. There are a lot of c...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Tomorrow is the 71st Tony Awards recognizing excellence in Broadway theater and the production with the most nominations for the season - that would be 12 - has already been lauded by critics for its diverse casting wildly innova...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: One of the really big challenges in revamping health care is funding Medicaid, the federal program for low-income or needy people. House Republicans voted to cut it dramatically this spring. Behind closed doors, the Senate...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: We've just about reached the year's midpoint. So some of our friends at NPR Music are taking this month to look at the year so far in music. Felix Contreras from Alt.Latino is here with some of his faves. Good morning, Feli...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A new kind of farming is taking hold here in Alabama, oyster aquaculture along the Gulf Coast. Some commercial fishermen now harvest oysters. NPR's Debbie Elliott, whom we know, reports. DEBBIE ELLIOTT, BYLINE: You drive 8 miles do...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Wonder Woman brought in a hundred million dollars at the box office last weekend. Two more films about women open this weekend. Salma Hayek stars in Beatriz at Dinner, and Kate Mara plays the leading role in Megan Leavey. Critic...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Countries around the world are trying to entice Americans unhappy with the Trump administration. French President Emmanuel Macron has invited climate scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs to come to France. Now the Canadian gov...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: So it has been a year now since a gunman killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. And today on StoryCorps, we're going to remember Deonka Drayton, one of the people murdered that night. She was 32 a...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Now let's take a few moments to remember actor Peter Sallis who died last week. He was 96. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: If you don't recognize his name, perhaps you'll recognize his voice. (SOUND...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: NPR's Invisibilia has returned with a new season. And this week, they're investigating the way we look at reality - whether we can ever really see it and how we often have very different views of the same reality, which naturally...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The fossil remains of five individuals who lived about 315,000 years ago in North Africa could belong to the very first population of modern humans, or they might be just another relative of ours who died out. NPR's Christopher J...
