I posted this picture of my jade plant flowering on BS and a lot of people expressed surprise that jade plants flower, and I ...

Writer Karen Attiah recently wrote about the pleasure of perusing other people’s personal libraries and then asked her fol ...

Vanity Fair has done a video interview Billie Eilish every year since she was a relatively unknown 15-year-old ...

The only Christmas music I want to hear this year is The Muppets doing Carol of the Bells. Beaker, Animal, and the Swedish ...

As you know, I am passionate about sweet things. All different kinds. So imagine my dismay back in 2017 when I discovered the ...

First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 ( Bookshop) is a book by Milton Mayer for which he interviewed ten ordinary Germans about their experiences living in Nazi ...

In this video from Pianote, the multi-talented Jon Batiste hears Green Day’s Holiday for the first time (drum & vocals only) and is challenged to come up with a piano accompaniment for it — and he ...

I didn’t know that the whereabouts of one of Vincent van Gogh’s most important works, a 1890 painting called “ ...

During the pandemic, Billie Eilish did a Tiny Desk Concert at home amidst a very faithful recreation of the NPR office. Last ...

Writer Karen Attiah recently wrote about the pleasure of perusing other people’s personal libraries and then asked her ...

Al Green released a soulful cover of R.E.M’s “Everybody Hurts,” and it whips. “I could really feel the heaviness of the song, and I wanted to inject a little touch of hope and light into it. There’s ...

Speaking of speaking of Tiny Desk Concerts here are two recent good ones. (Eep, wait, they’re all really good. What if any p ...