Dec 1st, 2008 · In a Mountain Stage set originally recorded in December 2007, Vega and her band perform selections from her latest CD, Beauty & Crime. She also performs a couple of the songs that brought her to the forefront of pop music in the late 1980s: the unlikely hits "Luka" and "Tom's Diner."
Nov 20th, 2008 · There are indications that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to head the Department of Health and Human Services. The transition team won't confirm that.
Oct 13th, 2008 · So much to hear. So little time. You can spend your entire life devouring music, both new and old, and barely scratch the surface of all there is to discover. NPR reviewer and author Tom Moon is trying to make it a little easier for music fans with his new book: 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List. On this edition of All Songs Considered, we talk with Tom about his new book and listen to some of the incredible music he select, as well as some of the ones we think he missed.
Sep 30th, 2008 · Author Tom Wolfe calls them "Masters of the Universe" — the ambitious young people who took Wall Street by storm in the 1980s and helped usher in an era of greed and prosperity. But where are they now? Two words: hedge funds. Madeleine Brand talks to Wolfe about how these people are faring now.
Sep 20th, 2008 · During the late 1960s and early 70s Tim Reid and Tom Dreesen became the nation's first black and white comedy team. During a tense time of segregation and race riots, they won rave reviews — all the while facing down threats and heckling from audience members.
Sep 12th, 2008 · With a baby on the way, Tom's wife begins to act strangely. Is the menace she senses real, or madness? Novel About My Wife is tense and revealing but also surprisingly funny.
Sep 8th, 2008 · NFL superstar Tom Brady could be out for the rest of the season with a knee injury. Peter King of Sports Illustrated discusses what Brady's absence means for the New England Patriots and how the NFL can cope with losing one of its headliners.
Sep 7th, 2008 · Singer-songwriter Tom Russell lives in El Paso-Juarez, which sits right on the border between Texas and Mexico. When he heard about the new wall going up between the two countries, he realized that all cheap labor on the border is done by illegal immigrants. So he wrote a song that asks an obvious question.