ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now we're going to tour the threatened Chicano murals of East Los Angeles. Most of the shops have signs in Spanish. There are places selling fruit juice, wedding dresses. And in a little storefront, a bunch of women are exercising...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Hal Prince has won more Tony Awards than anyone. The producer and director has won 21 of them over a career spanning seven decades. Tonight, Prince Of Broadway, a musical featuring moments from Prince's hits, opens on Broadway. And...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, Ailsa, it's Friday. It's almost the weekend. I mean, I feel like we should just turn up some music. AILSA CHANG, HOST: Yes. I am so ready for this. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) GREENE: Now, this song is really important because...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: A court in South Korea has found the leader of Samsung guilty in a corruption case involving South Korea's former president. A Seoul court sentenced the billionaire, Jay Y. Lee, to five years in prison just hours ago. NPR's Elise H...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: All right. He is big. He's blue. And now he's binge-able (ph). He is the Tick, a cult favorite parody superhero. Tomorrow, 10 episodes of a new Tick television series debut on Amazon. NPR's Glen Weldon says it's a familiar sort of...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Just try getting that phone out of a typical teenager's hand. They are texting, posting or watching video clips at all hours. I mean, not that we adults are much different. Still, the stars who reach teens often reach them through...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The new movie Good Time is not an easygoing popcorn flick. It fits into a genre that you could describe as movies about a very bad night. The actor Robert Pattinson plays a small-time criminal trying to get his intellectually disab...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The 82nd Airborne Division is turning 100 years old this week. Its soldiers gained fame in major battles of the World Wars, and they've become the nation's go-to troops for rapid deployment. Jay Price of member station WUNC travel...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: President Trump goes back and forth on using the U.S. military. He used to advocate pulling out of Afghanistan, for instance, and now he's committing additional forces there. But he's clearly a big fan of using men with military ex...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Silicon Valley tech firms are pushing back on hate groups, deleting them from search results, refusing to host their websites and choking off their ability to raise money online. NPR's Laura Sydell reports that some on the far righ...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Now, even as the Trump administration is trying to soothe tensions in the Middle East, as we just heard, they've also unveiled new sanctions against China and Russia over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs. These sanctions...
(SOUNDBITE OF W.G. SNUFFY WALDEN'S 'FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS' THEME) DAVID GREENE, HOST: That theme song - I could play it any time of day. It's from Friday Night Lights. I was totally addicted. It is the story of a high school football team from West Tex...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Product placement is everywhere these days, including in our music. Pop culture reporter Kim Bhasin at Bloomberg recently took a deep dive. KIM BHASIN: I was listening to Bad And Boujee by Migos, and there's a bunch of brand name d...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Sea salt has been harvested for more than a thousand years on the Atlantic coast of France. The industry declined in the mid-20th century. But with foodies looking for ever-fancier ingredients, NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports the s...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: In cities across the U.S., calls to take down Confederate monuments are growing louder ever since the deadly events in Charlottesville. One of the most dramatic monuments to the Confederacy is called Stone Mountain. It's in Georgia...
