Mar 5th, 2010 · Luck in the Valley is a bittersweet posthumous release by the great guitarist, who died in December at age 38. Featuring the old-time music trio Black Twig Pickers as his backing band, "Lick Mountain Ramble" is a collaborative effort that hollers whiskey-soaked goodness down the mountain.
Nov 21st, 2009 · Its alluring crimson fruit makes it an enduring star of the Thanksgiving centerpiece, but Asiatic bittersweet is strangling trees across New England. In many states, it's illegal to collect or move the invasive vine.
Sep 30th, 2009 · North Korea has allowed reunions of families divided by the Korean War to resume for a few days this week. The reunions are short, involve just a few hundred people, and are criticized for being too little and, perhaps, too late for some aging Koreans.
Aug 18th, 2009 · In this bittersweet music, Schubert added an extra cello to the standard string quartet, and in the process created a completely new sound for a small string ensemble. Hear a performance that deeply probes Schubert's personal brand of lyrical melancholy.
Jun 18th, 2009 · Looking ahead to Father's Day, Tell Me More producers Brakkton Booker, Luis Clemens, Argin Hutchins and Lee Hill talk about being sons to fathers who were both present and absent. The men also talk about what Father's Day means to them as adults, and why it is bittersweet.
Apr 22nd, 2009 · Luis Tiant left Cuba in 1961 to play pro baseball in the U.S. In 2007, at the age of 67, he made a bittersweet return to his homeland. Filmmaker Jonathan Hock, who documented the trip in The Lost Son of Havana, talks with Robert Siegel.
Apr 21st, 2009 · It's been a tough year for the newspaper industry. Which makes this year's announcement of the Pulitzer Prize winners a bittersweet moment. Even smaller newsrooms managed to find ways to do award-winning work.
Apr 17th, 2009 · Havana-born writer Achy Obejas returns to her native city with a novel called Ruins. It's a bittersweet portrait of Cuban life in the mid-1990s.