Mar 9th, 2010 · David Grann spent years documenting true stories of obsession and deception. He includes an improbable international imposter and the mysterious death of a Sherlock Holmes scholar in his book, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes.
Mar 6th, 2010 · Andy Trudeau returns for his annual review of Academy Award nominees for Best Film Score. This year, he sorts out Avatar, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Hurt Locker, Sherlock Holmes and Up.
Mar 3rd, 2010 · "Fair Weather Friend," featured on the band's rootsy new album Feed My Soul, revolves around a grim sequence of events: "The doctor he said cancer, I stopped in my tracks / I did not have the answer, but I knew you'd have my back." Only the supposed friend deserted Holmes in his time of need.
Feb 13th, 2010 · The diagnosis of throat cancer for guitarist Wendell Holmes could have meant the end of the group. Instead, it inspired a new album for the bluesy, sacred-meets-secular trio. The band gives a special performance, and speaks about Feed My Soul.
Dec 25th, 2009 · Ten years ago, "reality TV" meant The Real World and people watched TV with a quaint device ... the TV set. NPR's pop-culture blogger counts 10 of the things that have changed our TV-watching lives the most. She finds they're mostly for the better.
Dec 23rd, 2009 · Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes update, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the iconic sleuth, looks to put a bullet in the popular conception of the deerstalker-wearing detective — though exactly what drives the protagonist in Ritchie's indecipherable adventure remains something of a mystery.
Sep 15th, 2009 · Commentator Linda Holmes was a teenager when she first saw Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing. Like most 16-year-old girls of her time, she fell in love. Holmes has seen Swayze's two most famous films, Dirty Dancing and Ghost, a preposterous number of times. Neither film won Best Picture, but Holmes says in both Swayze delivered the easy familiarity of a good movie star. Swayze kept her company. Holmes says he'll be missed.
Jul 7th, 2009 · Fervent, soulful vibrato and strong harmonies lie at the core of The Holmes Brothers' soulful blues music, heard here live during the band's ninth appearance on Mountain Stage.