LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When the creators of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child were working on adapting the wizarding world for the stage, they knew a lot of people had seen the Harry Potter movies. And they didn't just want to reproduce those old...
SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: In the new movie Uncut Gems, Adam Sandler plays a New York jeweler and gambler always out for the next score. It's a cinematic panic attack. So why, reporter Tim Greiving asks, does it feature a cosmic New Age score? TIM GREIVIN...
SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: Ilana Glazer wants you to know she's ready to be seen as the real Ilana and not Ilana Wexler, the freewheeling character she made famous on Comedy Central's Broad City. (SOUNDBITE OF COMEDY SPECIAL, THE PLANET IS BURNING) ILANA...
LEILA FADEL, HOST: NPR's Pam Fessler has reported on efforts to fight poverty in the U.S. for over a decade. Along the way, she's seen how sometimes a single person can have the most impact. On a recent trip to Albany, N.Y., she met three men who gre...
Opinion: Looking Back On 2019, I Think Of Fear LEILA FADEL, HOST: For my day job here at NPR, I cover identity, race and culture. And in 2019, there was no shortage of stories to tell. This summer, I met a girl named Katy Martinez. She was 16, bubbly...
NOEL KING, HOST: The 2010s in Europe started with a financial crisis that threatened to break up the European Union. In the middle of the decade, more than a million migrants from the Middle East arrived. And at the end of the decade, populist moveme...
NOEL KING, HOST: The new Christmas song that gets right to what this season is really about. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, SUGAR AND BOOZE) ANA GASTEYER: (Singing) I love snowmen and turtledoves in twos. Holly, ivy, mistletoe can take away my blues. Kriss Krin...
NOEL KING, HOST: Are you in the mood for a classic holiday story of comfort and joy? Well, this is not that. Years ago, the writer David Sedaris worked as a department store elf. He wrote about it in a collection of stories called the Santaland Diari...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Over the past 50 years, one of the most widely recognized holiday TV programs has been the WPIX Yule Log. In case you're unfamiliar, it has no actors and no plot. It is a seven-minute looped video of a crackling fire. Now the Yule...
NOEL KING, HOST: Louisa May Alcott's book Little Women is 150 years old. It should feel ancient, but somehow it doesn't. Somehow, it holds up. There have been many adaptations, and now there's a new movie version out on Christmas Day directed by Gret...