Apr 29th, 2005 · Wallenstein on TV: 'The Family Guy' Returns April 29, 2005 · Day to Day television critic Andrew Wallenstein visits the "set" of the controversial animated series The Family Guy. He talks to show creator Seth McFarlane about the program's recent return to television and how rabid fans of the show helped to resurrect it from cancellation.
Apr 7th, 2005 · When Father Panik Village, a 50-year-old housing project in Bridgeport, Conn., was demolished in 1994, drugs and violence plagued the community. But former residents have not forgotten the earlier days of their neighborhood. Their memories are chronicled in a new play, Father Panik Village: The Untold Story. Tandaleya Wilder of member station WSHU reports.
Feb 12th, 2005 · The machines that capture sound generally fall apart much sooner than the media on which the sound is captured. Think of that 8-Track tape player in your attic. That turns those wires and tape into "dead media"; the sound is trapped, perhaps never to be heard again. We resurrect sound from Dead Media, like Oscar Hammerstein recording his thoughts on a dictabelt.
Jan 6th, 2005 · Alan Cheuse reviews Nobel Prize winner V.S. Naipaul's new novel Magic Seeds, which continues the story of Indian intellectual Willie Chandran begun in Naipaul's 2001 novel, Half a Life. Cheuse says the novel's thick plot is only a platform from which Naipaul delves into a complicated world of mind and feeling.
Oct 13th, 2004 · Slate contributor Seth Stevenson rates Burger King's newest ad campaign, "Wake up with the King." The commercial's resurrection of a Burger King ad icon from the late 1970s is targeting cynical men of the 18-to-35 crowd.
Sep 24th, 2004 · In the late 1960s, at the height of his popularity, Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson began work on an ambitious album called Smile. Almost four decades later, the album is ready for release. Bob Boilen sits in on the Smile recording sessions.
Sep 13th, 2004 · In 1927, poet Carl Sandburg published The American Songbag, a collection of traditional music. Singer-guitarist Dan Zanes brings the music back in his new CD, Parades and Panoramas.
Aug 21st, 2004 · Two hundred years after their country became unified through one language, natives of southern France are resurrecting the Occitan patois through a blend of rap, reggae and folk. Producer Julian Crandall Hollick reports as part of the Worlds of Difference series.