Nov 19th, 2008 · President-elect Barack Obama is expected to nominate Eric Holder as attorney general. Holder, who served as deputy attorney general during the Clinton Administration, would be the first African American to hold the top position at the Justice Department. A close family friend of Holder shares her thoughts on the Washington lawyer.
Nov 19th, 2008 · When his contract to a major record label went down with the ship, acoustic soul singer Eric Hutchinson hit the road to generate his own exposure, and in the end, self-released his debut as well. Hutchinson plays his material in a session from WXPN.
Nov 19th, 2008 · President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for U.S. attorney general seems to be Eric Holder. Holder was the No. 2 official in the Justice Department under President Bill Clinton. The Obama team says no final decision has been made. NPR News Analyst Juan Williams talks with Renee Montagne about what is known about Obama's Cabinet choices.
Oct 16th, 2008 · North Carolina-born singer-songwriter Eric Church has quickly become one of the most popular young stars in modern country music. Church recently treated a Mountain Stage audience in Bristol, Tenn./Va., to a stripped-down acoustic performance of what is normally a loud, electric stage show.
Aug 5th, 2008 · The French band has been energetically spreading its own brand of klezmer, Gypsy music and jazz around the entire world for almost 15 years. Leaders Eric and Olivier Slabiak bring their dueling fiddles to a live Mountain Stage performance.
Jul 24th, 2008 · The Monty Python funnyman is back with Not The Messiah, an adaptation of the 1979 film Life of Brian. He reprises some of the original songs and characters, and laments that the sheep get more applause than he does.
Apr 21st, 2008 · Writer Eric Jerome Dickey has written a string of best-selling novels about contemporary African-American life. His latest work, Pleasure, is a story about love, jealousy, and obsession from a female point of view.
Apr 5th, 2008 · He's more bigoted than Archie Bunker, more short-tempered than Jackie Gleason, and much more trouble-prone than his animated precursor Fred Flintstone. NPR's Julie Rovner profiles South Park's wildly inappropriate fourth-grader.