• With ‘Day Breaks,’ Norah Jones builds on signature sound

    With ‘Day Breaks,’ Norah Jones builds on signature sound

    Nov 27, 2016 05:38 PM EST

    ... that that’s it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think. BROWN: That’s, of course, also part of performing, right? Do you like performing? JONES: Yeah, I think playing music is one of my great joys in life. I had success early on where ...

  • Exuberant Cubans in Miami flood streets, celebrate Castro's death

    Exuberant Cubans in Miami flood streets, celebrate Castro's death

    Nov 26, 2016 04:42 PM EST

    The streets of Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood were celebrating early Saturday morning the death of Fidel Castro, a Cuban revolutionary whose dictatorial style defined Cuban politics for nearly 50 years and triggered mass waves of migration to the U.S. Cuban President Raul Castro announced his brother's death ...

  • Honored for songwriting, Motown legend Smokey Robinson proves he really got a hold on pop music

    Honored for songwriting, Motown legend Smokey Robinson proves he really got a hold on pop music

    Nov 18, 2016 08:33 PM EST

    ... be mentioned in the same breath as George and Ira Gershwin, a songwriting team that ceremony host Samuel Jackson earlier referred to as "eternally cool brothers." "This is such a wonderful, spectacular, incredible night in my life. I've had many of them, and this is right at the top ...

  • What veterans are expecting from President Trump

    What veterans are expecting from President Trump

    Nov 12, 2016 12:19 AM EST

    ... it. Veterans advocacy groups like IAVA and others have been really screaming for years for help to try to explain that we're losing our brothers and sisters to our left and right tragically to suicide on a daily basis. We had a day last year we had seven suicide ...

  • Column: Washington's carbon tax doesn't address environmental justice

    Column: Washington's carbon tax doesn't address environmental justice

    Nov 08, 2016 04:40 PM EST

    ... afford to get it wrong, which is why we must place equity and justice at the center of our energy future. READ MORE: Column: Koch brothers are the latest strange bedfellows in Washington state carbon tax fight A stronger, more inclusive climate movement will unleash more innovative ideas, protect the ...

  • Column: Growing up, I didn't know my mother had a lobotomy

    Column: Growing up, I didn't know my mother had a lobotomy

    Oct 28, 2016 01:30 PM EST

    ... ride. Sleeping with military guys she met in the bars on Shelter Island. Running up my father’s credit cards. Frying up hamburgers for my brothers and me at 5:30 in the morning because she thought it was dinnertime. Chasing my brothers around the house with a baseball bat ...

  • ‘Prairie Home’ gets a new companion

    ‘Prairie Home’ gets a new companion

    Oct 21, 2016 11:37 PM EST

    ... JEFFREY BROWN: Chris Thile, who grew up in Southern California, was a child prodigy on the mandolin. With groups like Nickel Creek and the Punch Brothers, he grew into a leader of a new generation of bluegrass-based, genre-bending musicians. He can seemingly do anything with his instrument. I ...

  • Using sensors to spoon-feed crops with extreme precision

    Using sensors to spoon-feed crops with extreme precision

    Oct 19, 2016 11:33 PM EST

    To profitably produce corn in on Midwestern farms, nitrogen must be added to the soil. But the practice has an unwanted environmental impact: water contamination. A University of Nebraska professor thinks he may have a solution. Special correspondent Ariana Brocious of Harvest Public Media in Nebraska reports.

  • LGBTQ seniors face discrimination in long-term care

    LGBTQ seniors face discrimination in long-term care

    Oct 18, 2016 02:33 PM EST

    There are an estimated 1.5 million gay, lesbian and bisexual people over 65 living in the U.S. currently, and that number is expected to double by 2030.

  • Carl Reiner on being a comedian and Mel Brooks’ best friend

    Carl Reiner on being a comedian and Mel Brooks’ best friend

    Sep 23, 2016 11:31 PM EST

    Carl Reiner never thought about going into comedy growing up. That was until he met Mel Brooks. A friendship that started in 1961 with the “2,000-Year-Old Man” skit, the two close friends now have a nightly movie date. Reiner gives his Brief but Spectacular take on his comedic career.