Mar 8th, 2010 · On her debut album, The Magician's Private Library, Miranda teams up with producer Dave Sitek to create a mix of wrenching vocals, dashes of floating digi-synth backgrounds and upbeat Antibalas horns.
Mar 4th, 2010 · A spaceship lands. Humans become avatars. A man in a cape can fly. Special effects have made movies magical for decades. NPR's Susan Stamberg goes backstage to learn how moviemakers frighten, fool and thrill the audience.
Dec 30th, 2009 · Carl Kasell has delivered the news on Morning Edition since its very first broadcast. After 30 years, he's focusing on other duties at NPR. We look back at his career — as a local DJ; a game show announcer — and the magician who dared to saw Nina Totenberg in half.
Dec 22nd, 2009 · Part of the holiday magic is in doing things for others. And a road trip ranks right on up there. Guest host Jacki Lyden talks to her own mom about an upcoming driving trip that the two will be making for the holidays from Milwaukee to Florida. They will also be driving with siblings and pets.
Dec 13th, 2009 · A lot of kids believe that a jolly, fat, bearded man will soon be sliding down chimneys to bring presents to all the world's children in a single night. As they get older, the mystery and magic fades. For Youth Radio's Asha Richarson, the real mystery was why this happens, and when.
Nov 23rd, 2009 · On She Wolf, Shakira teams up again with songwriter-producer Wyclef Jean, but it sounds as if they're trying to recapture the magic of her global smash "Hips Don't Lie." The duo replaces the Latin and Middle Eastern beats with generic dance-pop diva moves.
Nov 23rd, 2009 · Director Wes Anderson has worked on a lot of film projects, but with his latest film, Fantastic Mr. Fox, he ventured into new territory: animation. Anderson says that making a stop-motion picture is the most involved filmmaking he's ever done, but he also says that the process has "a sort of magic."
Nov 3rd, 2009 · In the last few months, DJ AM died of an apparent drug overdose, while a heart attack took the life of New York radio pioneer Mr. Magic. But the least publicized in a tragic and eerily timed trilogy of DJ deaths was that of Anthony Williams, better known as Grandmaster Roc Raida.