Are you feeling a little cynical? Maybe a little down? Have no fear, we have a documentary to cure what ails you. It’s called “The Gnomist.” As in garden gnomes. And if you think this is some sort of post modern ironic bait and switch you could be no further from the truth. Our producer Charles Monroe-Kane caught up with the film’s director, Sharon Liese, to find out what happened with garden gnomes along the Tomahawk Creek Trail in Overland Park, Kansas. A place now dubbed The Firefly Forest.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Christopher Byron tells Anne Strainchamps that the Martha Stewart public image is consistent and ubiquitous but has little to do with the real Martha Stewart.
What's the oddest - or most delicious - translation of traditional food that you've sampled?
LA Times food critic Jonathan Gold has spent his career seeking out the best plates of authentic – or reinterpreted – culture. Anne Strainchamps asked him about food in translation.
Listen to the UNCUT interview here. We recommend having some snacks on hand!
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie splits her time between the U.S. and her native Nigeria...
E.L. Doctorow's latest novel is called "The March" and is about the devastating effect on the South during the Civil War of General William Tecumseh Sherman.
Poet and translator Coleman Barks talks with Anne Strainchamps about the 13th century Sufi mystic and poet, Rumi.
Ellen Handler Spitz is the author of many books on psychology and aesthetics. She talks with Jim Fleming about her latest - "The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood."
Dame Evelyn Glennie is an award winning solo percussionist and composer who performs with the great orchestras and popular artists. She's also deaf. She talks with Steve Paulson about touching sound.
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