Dec 25th, 2008 · Although Julian Koster's choice of musical instrument is unusual, the songs he plays on it are not. Sometimes lonely and sometimes haunting, the songs on The Singing Saw at Christmastime are childlike, comforting, fresh and warm. Hear a session from WXPN.
Dec 4th, 2008 · As one in a small group of analysts who publicly predicted the collapse of the American financial system, Peter Schiff was a lonely — and much maligned — voice on cable's financial news shows.
Nov 22nd, 2008 · Hip hop artist T.I. is currently sitting atop the Billboard singles chart. He's taking up a lot of room, too. He's got the No. 1 and No. 2 songs in the country. It's a rare feat — accomplished by the Beatles in 1964 and the Bee Gees at the height of disco. Andrea Seabrook spins a few hot hits and examines the phenomenon.
Nov 14th, 2008 · Jack White's main project outside The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, performs an all-acoustic set of material from Consolers of the Lonely. Members Brendon Benson and Patrick Keeler also explain why their Australian Web site calls the band The Saboteurs in a session from WXPN.
Nov 13th, 2008 · An adaption of Yasunari Kawabata's 1961 novella, Sleeping Beauties is a wistful erotic mystery centered around an eccentric German brothel. Mark Jenkins calls it artful and delicate — but with an oddly tone-deaf ending.
Sep 30th, 2008 · Monday's massive stock sell-off meant declining numbers for every company on the Dow Jones industrial average and all but one on the S&P 500. So what was the lone brand name where investors sought refuge? Campbell's Soup Company.
Aug 18th, 2008 · The FBI has briefed journalists on the scientific data that led them to Army scientist Bruce Ivins. Ivins killed himself as prosecutors prepared to charge him as the lone anthrax killer.
Jun 28th, 2008 · Germany faces Spain in the finals of the Euro 2008 soccer tournament in Vienna on Sunday. Eric Goetz of Lebanon, N.H., talks about what it's like living in a soccer-indifferent country during this tournament.