To mark the opening of the movie version of “The Sorcerer’s Stone,” an exploration of the phenomenal popularity of the Harry Potter books.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Gerald Clarke tells Steve Paulson that Judy’s mother introduced her to drugs; that she was exploited by the studio system; and that she had an amazing ability to pull herself together.
Rapper Xuman is the host of Journal Rappe – a weekly news program in Senegal that is rapped in Wolof, French, and English. Journal Rappe is not a gimmick. It’s serious, hard-hitting news – just rapped.
Charles Monroe-Kane sat down with Xuman in our studios in Madison to discuss the future of hip hop. They were joined by Toni Blackman. She’s Hip Hop Ambassador to the US State Department. Wait, raise your hand if you knew that the US State Department even had a Hip Hop Ambassador?
Geoff Nicholson is the author of "The Lost Art of Walking: the History, Science and Literature of Pedestrianism." He tells Jim Fleming about his adventures trying to take walks in Los Angeles, about some famous walkers of the past, and the secret of a great walk.
Do you feel grief and longing when a place you love has been damaged? Then you may have "solastalgia" ...
Harold McGee recently visited the kitchen of L'Etoile Restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin with Anne Strainchamps to provide a guided tour of food science.
Author, music journalist and cultural critic Greil Marcus talks with Steve Paulson about the ballad tradition in American music.
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