Mar 12th, 2010 · The Canadian singer grew up watching old movies and musicals in London, Ontario. She took those influences and turned them into an album that sounds both old-fashioned and timeless. Its title is The Cricket's Orchestra.
Mar 1st, 2010 · Though they work as a traditional African-American string band, Carolina Chocolate Drops' members throw in some modern twists. The Durham, N.C.-based trio plays a wide variety of instruments, including the banjo, fiddle, jug, bones and harmonica. All of those sounds are featured on the band's newest record, Genuine Negro Jig.
Feb 24th, 2010 · Improvements in care have helped the former vice president in his decades-long battle with heart disease. A look at his medical history illustrates the steady progress in treatment.
Feb 23rd, 2010 · Here's a good reminder of why it pays to pay attention to who's in the band: on the intersection of classical chamber music, indie pop, New Orleans brass bands and modern jazz — in the heart of Brooklyn.
Feb 22nd, 2010 · William Halsted is credited with creating the United State's first surgical residency program and transforming the way operating rooms are sterilized. He was also a morphine addict. Plastic surgeon Gerald Imber details Halsted's dual lives in the new biography, Genius on the Edge.
Feb 19th, 2010 · Tillman's latest album, Year in the Kingdom, is a regal, autumnal affair. The title track perfectly exemplifies what he has to offer: It's a hushed and respectful hymn for a modern age in which doubt and spirituality coexist under uneasy, overwhelming and ultimately humbling terms.
Feb 18th, 2010 · NPR correspondent Margot Adler has read 75 vampire books in the past nine months. It was a fascination with the classic vampire's immortality that got her started — but it was her discovery of the modern vampire's sense of morality that kept her going.
Feb 16th, 2010 · Dubravka Ugresic's Baba Yaga Laid an Egg explores issues of women and aging through three modern retellings of the story of Baba Yaga, the villainous crone at the heart of many Eastern European folk tales.