Reverbiage: Stories from NPR tagged 'cobbles'

A Vegetarian Thanksgiving

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:39:00 EST

Even if you don't live meatlessly yourself, you might have a vegetarian or vegan at your Thanksgiving table. Offer your meat-free guests something more substantial than a cobbled-together plate of traditional vegetable side dishes.

'Eagle Eye': Death By A Thousand Cuts

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:00:00 EDT

Hyperkinetic jump-cut editing and a clangorous Mission Impossible-style score can't cover up the essential idiocy of D.J. Caruso's paranoid thriller, which seems cobbled together from random elements of far better movies.

Who Will Pay For The Wall Street Bailout...

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:00:00 EDT

The Federal Reserve and Treasury Department cobbled together a comprehensive bailout plan for Wall Street over the weekend. The proposal could cost $700 billion. Joe Nocera of The New York Times offers some thoughts on who will foot the bill.

E-Mail This Story: Of Kittens, Quinoa & Ron Paul

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:00:00 EST

Producer Dan Pashman takes aim at National Public Radio's list of most e-mailed stories, cobbling this feature out of sugar and spice and everything nice. Help him out, will you, and e-mail it -- a lot.

Greenland Glacier Studied for Insight into Warming

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:19:00 EST

Scientists are studying the Greenland glacier to see how quickly it might melt in a warming world. A team camping near a lake on the surface of the glacier cobbled together an impromptu instrument to try to measure how quickly water was rushing out of the lake to the ocean.

'Congotronics 2,' Built on Konono No. 1's Success

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:58:00 EDT

The debut album of Congolese band Konoko No. 1 caught the attention of U.S. audiences. Their rhythms were played on instruments cobbled together from discarded car parts. Now the band joins with other Congolese artists on a new album called Congotronics 2.

Singer John Martyn's 'On the Cobbles'

Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:00:00 EDT

John Martyn is best known as a 1970s singer and songwriter with a great deep voice and strident guitar playing. He mixed jazz with folk, was a friend and contemporary of Nick Drake, and wrote a song called "May You Never," later made famous by guitarist Eric Clapton. Our reviewer Chris Nickson says that the latest John Martyn record, On The Cobbles, is his strongest record in decades. It comes after a long illness and the help of some loving and loyal friends and musicians.