AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Before he became a film critic, NPR's Bob Mondello worked for a chain of movie theaters. He spent a lot of time in projection booths, which is where he's taking us this week as part of the NPR series Backstage Pass. It's been a w...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: So here's a way to go to the museum without actually going to the museum. Send a text message to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the museum will send back an image that matches your mood. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It really...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Hospitals and pharmacies are required to throw away drugs that have passed their expiration date, no matter how expensive or vital those drugs may be. But the Food and Drug Administration and others have long known that many drugs...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: As we've heard, Senator John McCain is recuperating from neurosurgery. He had a blood clot removed from over his eye. And to learn more about the kind of surgery he underwent, its risks and what a recuperation might be like, we t...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Exeter Brass Band in New Hampshire is one of the oldest continuously performing bands in the country. They've been around since 1847. This summer, they're back at it doing their usual Monday night run of free concerts from th...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Hollywood lost two of its stars this weekend - George Romero and Martin Landau. More about Landau in a couple of minutes. First, director George Romero - he died at age 77 after a career in which he invented the modern zombie gen...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And now a moment to remember Martin Landau, who also died this weekend at the age of 89. He was an Oscar-winning actor in his own right and guided younger stars. NPR's Andrew Limbong has more. ANDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: Movie stars...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Now to a famous British export - Doctor Who. (SOUNDBITE OF MURRAY GOLD'S DOCTOR WHO THEME) SIEGEL: The BBC has announced that the latest actor to play its time-traveling alien is a woman, Jodie Whittaker. She'll take over from th...
STEVE INSKEEP: In recent years in Delta, Pa., if you went just past the edge of town to a wooded area by an old railroad trestle, you'd find people digging - archaeologists excavating a bit of very modest history. They weren't sifting through the rui...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Here's one way to make sense of confusing events in 2016. Put them in a timeline. Today, we know many behind-the-scenes developments, like Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer. NPR's Tamara Keith lined up those events...
Forest Bathing: A Retreat To Nature Can Boost Immunity And Mood DAVID GREENE, HOST: Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of our evolutionary history was spent in natural environments. Our bodies are simply adapted to being in nature. But today we are spend...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to a story that's like so many others you've heard, and yet it's like nothing you've heard. It started with an abandoned house on the Eastern Shore of Virginia that burned to the ground. Night after night during that November...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to Raqqa in Syria. For the past three years, it's been known as the defacto capital of the Islamic State. Coalition forces have begun a drive to force ISIS out of that city. And for years, ISIS has tried to make sure that wha...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's head to the other side of the country now. In Washington state, a member of the Nooksack Indian Tribe wants to change how you think about Native American art. Louie Gong is an artist and entrepreneur, and he wants to move p...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's July, but if you're an HBO subscriber and a fan of intense explicit television, winter is here. (SOUNDBITE OF RAMIN DJAWADI'S MAIN TITLE) MARTIN: Tonight, HBO will begin airing the penultimate season of its hit drama Game Of...
