Oct 1st, 2008 · There's another debate taking place in this campaign: Its rhetoric is musical, and it's happening where presidential politics and homemade music collide. This goes beyond the Obama Girl and the McCain McCutie, into the realm of homemade and heartfelt music.
Aug 30th, 2008 · Commentator and cookbook author Nancy Baggett says it's really not so hard to make marshmallows from scratch. More moist, more tender, and more flavorful than store-bought marshmallows, your S'mores, hot chocolate, and Heavenly Hash will never be the same again.
Aug 4th, 2008 · Patience is a virtue — especially for an order of monks who lived in perpetual silence until the 1960s. On an island near Wales, one community of Trappists now manages a thriving mail-order Internet business. Their sales of homemade perfumes and sweets were slowed by a sluggish dial-up connection. So they upgraded to broadband.
Jul 31st, 2008 · NOMO recently stopped by KUT's Studio 1A with synthesizers, horns and homemade instruments in tow. Elliot Bergman, speaking on behalf of the eight musicians, explained to KUT's Jay Trachtenberg how a band coming out of the Midwest came to emulate music many Americans overlook.
Jul 10th, 2008 · Host Michele Norris recalls how the new CD from the Perry siblings was kid-tested and mother-approved.
Jul 10th, 2008 · For the Perry siblings of Tupelo, Miss. — ages 9, 14 and 16 — making music involves making unique instruments from car parts. The young family band with astonishingly mature blues chops demonstrates its craft in NPR's Studio 4A.
Jun 11th, 2008 · As a child devouring homemade madeleines, Elizabeth Tannen didn't realize there was anything unusual about her father's twist on the classic French treat or that it had a literary connotation. Years later, with a madeleine pan from her dad, she developed a few twists of her own.
Mar 3rd, 2008 · The Canadian blog SaidTheGramophone.com hosted a contest for DIY music videos, and they've begun rolling out the charming winners. Plus, a challenge: Make a video for the Bryant Park Project theme.