Nov 28th, 2008 · As part of StoryCorps' National Day of Listening project, Alex Cohen talks to her father, Kip, about his addiction to methamphetamines and his process of recovery. The project encourages people to sit down with a loved one on Nov. 28, the day after Thanksgiving, and record a meaningful conversation.
Nov 20th, 2008 · How's a much-bullied gay teen to get his revenge? Well, if he's starring in a musicalized A Midsummer Night's Dream, and he stumbles upon a working formula for Puck's love potion ...
Nov 19th, 2008 · Senators on the Judiciary Committee had mostly favorable reactions to news that Eric Holder is likely to be President-elect Obama's choice for attorney general. But some potential stumbling blocks remain.
Oct 26th, 2008 · Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was Israel's prime minister designate if she could form a new government. But after coalition talks with two fundamentalist political parties collapsed, that doesn't look likely. Guest Host Alison Stewart talks to NPR's Eric Westervelt about the breakdown of talks.
Aug 19th, 2008 · An Iowa college town is protecting itself from the effects of drinking. People in Ames — home of Iowa State University — noticed a concrete sidewalk cracking in the area where beer distributors unload hundreds of beer kegs for local bars. Some of the kegs get dropped. The city installed a sidewalk made of recycled rubber. Now the kegs will bounce — and with any luck, so will students stumbling back to the dorm.
Aug 18th, 2008 · Almost by accident, the National Park Service stumbled upon a largely untold piece of U.S. history: Fort Hunt, a park in Virginia, had been a top-secret interrogation camp during World War II. The Park Service is trying to piece together the camp's past.
Aug 9th, 2008 · A Dutch primary school teacher has accidentally discovered what some are calling a cosmic space 'ghost' — a strange greenish, gaseous object with a hole in the middle that may represent a new class of astronomical phenomena.
Aug 8th, 2008 · Tim Stark was a management consultant when he stumbled into heirloom tomato farming, as he describes in Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Farmer. (Tip: The ugliest tend to be tastiest.) Now his tomatoes are served in the finest New York restaurants.