Earl Scruggs talks with Steve Paulson about his long history in blue grass and country music.
Earl Scruggs talks with Steve Paulson about his long history in blue grass and country music.
Anthropologist Cynthia Mahmood is among the few Westerners who’s actually spent time talking with Islamic terrorists on their turf.
Researchers have discovered that cats have their own taste in music. It sounds nothing like that crap you listen to.
Cultural geographer Bradley Garrett's Dangerous Idea? Rediscover overlooked sites in cities.
Pianist Christopher O'Riley agrees with Duke Ellington that there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. He has a thriving career playing both classical music and his own arrangements of Elliot Smith and Radiohead.
Chris Gray is the author of “Cyborg Citizen.” He thinks anyone whose body has been artificially altered by technology is a cyborg. Forget bionic limbs, he means even people who’ve had vaccinations!
She is the child of fundamentalist Christians but her father was a forest ranger and she grew up in a remote wilderness cabin.
Public radio storyteller David Sedaris is often called America’s preeminent humorist. He recently stopped by our studio before a sold-out performance in Madison and talked with Steve Paulson about how he got started as a writer, the differences between writing and performing on stage, the...