Nov 21st, 2008 · The city of Chicago has one more thing to boast about: Its hometown orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, has been named America's top orchestra in a new critics' poll published in the venerable British magazine Gramophone.
Nov 20th, 2008 · Based out of his tiny, rustic hometown of Slaughters, Ky., songwriter and guitarist Chris Knight writes backwoods poetry with introspection he's clearly gained by living the words he writes. On this Mountain Stage appearance, Knight performs songs from his latest album, Heart of Stone, as well as the title cut from his previous record, Enough Rope.
Nov 12th, 2008 · The mystery around Eleanor Rigby, the main character in one of the Beatles' biggest hit songs, may be solved. The previously believed-to-be fictional character may have actually lived in the Beatles' hometown of Liverpool. A 97-year-old document for auction in London later this month may contain clues to Rigby's identity. Alex Cohen talks with the current owner of the document, Annie Mawson.
Nov 9th, 2008 · In Brockton, Mass., size does matter. Host Jacki Lyden talks us through the controversy surrounding the size of a proposed Rocky Marciano statue to commemorate the hometown prize fighter.
Oct 31st, 2008 · Sarah Palin came to Cape Girardeau, Mo., a conservative town in a swing state, to energize the conservative base. Polls show the presidential race to be neck and neck in Missouri.
Oct 27th, 2008 · In Hannibal, Mo., along the Mississippi, history entwines with the present for residents of the boyhood home of Mark Twain as they try to decide whom to vote for in the presidential election. The latest polls for Missouri show Barack Obama and John McCain in a dead heat.
Sep 23rd, 2008 · William Faulkner's hometown of Oxford shows it has changed a great deal from the turbulent integration of Ole Miss in 1962, when 30,000 federal troops were sent in to control hostile mobs.
Sep 10th, 2008 · Radio host Keith Brand grew up in Phoenixville, Pa., where a hysterical crowd once fled a ravenous space alien intent on devouring a midnight-movie audience. That theater, he remembers, has had its ups and downs. So has the town.