Subject: National Public Radio Inc.

• Andrei Codrescu

  March 26, 2009

• Join the Corps

  January 9, 2007

• Catfish Reef: Happy Woman Blues

  February 20, 2007

• There Is But One Story with Many Tellings

  July 2, 2007

• National Non-fiction Writers Conference in Texas

  July 1, 2008

• In the Shade: Shady Shots

  August 2, 2008

• Why Do the "Car Talk" Guys Have a Cartoon and I Don’t?

  August 13, 2008

• Parks's Big Score!

  Gordon Parks paved the way for modern African-American directors

  September 27, 2001

• John Prine with Iris DeMent

  Friday, December 6

  December 5, 2002

• Frankly Funny

  Joe Frank comes to life in Jerry's World

  September 25, 2003

• Meryl Streep Is Pretty Much Scaring the Hell Out of Me Right About Now

  So I get the fact that this new movie Doubt starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman is really supposed to be about faith and trust and, well, doubt (duh), but am I the only one who is totally and completely freaked out by the trailer / commercials and the image of Meryl as a mean, nasty nun who is going to kick the tar out of you? From what I've learned, Doubt is a movie based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, and it centers on a friendly priest (Hoffman) in the mid

  December 18, 2008

• Press Picks

  May 19, 1994

• Press Picks

  June 9, 1994

• Static

  February 29, 1996

• Naked Brunch

  June 11, 1998

• Pop Goes the Quartet

  March 4, 1999

• SXSW BBQ Panel: Brisket as Health Food

  The location of the nearest Texas barbecue joint and what to order when you get there seem to be the first questions on the minds of many visitors to SXSW in Austin. So this year, veteran barbecue writer Joe Nick Patoski put together a Texas barbecue panel for conference-goers. Panelists included Rick Schmidt, the owner of Kruez Market in Lockhart; John Morthland, who writes about barbecue for Texas Monthly; Wyatt McSpadden, who has a new photo book out called Texas BBQ; NPR's Kitchen Sisters,

  March 19, 2009

• SXSW BBQ Panel: Brisket as Health Food

  The location of the nearest Texas barbecue joint and what to order when you get there seem to be the first questions on the minds of many visitors to SXSW in Austin. So this year, veteran barbecue writer Joe Nick Patoski put together a Texas barbecue panel for conference-goers. Panelists included Rick Schmidt, the owner of Kruez Market in Lockhart; John Morthland, who writes about barbecue for Texas Monthly; Wyatt McSpadden, who has a new photo book out called Texas BBQ; NPR's Kitchen Sisters

  March 19, 2009

• SXSW Journal: Wild Moccasins, Day 2

  [How bassist Nicholas Cody of Houston's Wild Moccasins spent his SXSW Thursday.]Nicholas CodyBig Boi Bumps the Austin Music HallAfter playing three shows in one day, including our official showcase, we all looked forward to being able to relax and having time to watch some free day shows. Thursday began with a little cable television, but then we all splintered off to do our own things.Andrew O. and his girlfriend went their way, Zahira and Cody of course were together, Andrew Lee followed them,

  March 20, 2009

• Amplified

  January 6, 2000

• Cowboy in the Kitchen

  June 8, 2000

• Cokie Roberts

  This award-winning NPR reporter knows all about the first first ladies

  May 1, 2008

• This American Life — Live!

  Ira Glass takes his show on the road…via satellite

  May 1, 2008

• Arthur Alexander

  Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter

  September 6, 2007

• This American Life - LIVE!

  April 23, 2009

• Mail Call

  Just for Sports

  July 12, 2007

• Buttercup

  Buttercup appears at Friday, September 29, at Rudyard's, 2010 Waugh. Moonlight Towers also appears. 713-521-0521.

  September 28, 2006

• Letter-Box Edition

  Wordplay explores the cult of the crossword puzzle

  June 29, 2006

• Domino Kings

  Friday, February 24, at Blanco's, 3406 West Alabama, 713-439-0072. Saturday, February 25, at 2 p.m., in-store performance at Sig's Lagoon, 3710 Main, 713-533-9525.

  February 23, 2006

• Podnography

  And you thought those audio files were only used for music

  December 29, 2005

• On Da Lingo, Part II

  Confused by what all our hometown rappers are talking about? We’re here to help.

  November 17, 2005

• Letters

  February 24, 2005

• Party Animals

  Politically oriented matchmaking sites are surging toward the election

  October 14, 2004

• Mary Gauthier

  Thursday, April 15

  April 15, 2004

• Joss Stone

  The Soul Sessions (S-Curve)

  November 13, 2003

• Cleaning Rags to Riches

  Crappy gigs are grist for this humorist's mill

  October 23, 2003

• Strange Days

  Theater LaB and Atomic Cafe take us from a Squeamish religious sect to drinks with cannibals

  January 16, 2003

• Lost in Space

  Meet the new radio, XM. It's big. It's bad. It's nationwide.

  August 22, 2002

• Pop Goes the Bastard

  Unlike the UK, Houston resists the urge to commit plagiarhythm

  May 2, 2002

• Overthrow the Revolution

  Factory Direct might be the Next Big Thing

  May 3, 2001

• Silence on the Dial

  Two weeks ago the FCC shut down Montrose Radio. Can the pirate station survive the bust? Can the pirate station survive itself?

  May 13, 1999

• Press Picks

  January 26, 1995

• Slate Isn't Exactly Encouraging You To Go To The Houston Library Tomorrow

  Tomorrow morning the Houston Public Library is bringing in Cokie Roberts to talk about her book We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, which is somehow not subtitled (In Case You Were Wondering).We've never been big fans of Roberts; on the Sunday talk shows she's seemed to be pretty much Queen of the Conventional DC Wisdom.But one guy who really doesn't like her is Slate's media critic Jack Shafer. And today, just in time to welcome her to Houston and pump up interest in her appearance, he lets loose.Hi

  May 4, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Another Record Store Day at Cactus Music

  Cactus Music and the Record Ranch is having another Record Store Day Saturday, with a lineup of events that borders on serious party happening. The highlight of the day will be a live appearance by red-hot San Antonio band The Krayolas (above). San Antonio's oldest and most respected rockero outfit has hit serious paydirt with their single "Corrido: Twelve Heads in a Bag," a tale based on the current wave of gruesome violence in Mexico. The song was first picked up by Little Steven Van Zandt on

  June 19, 2009

• Bayou Beat: Three Fantastic on NPR, Beyonce Leads MTV Noms, Rocks Off Seeking Intern, More Live Nation Deals, etc.

  Mark C. Austin​ Congratulations to Houston's Three Fantastic, whose "Hot Summer Day" was chosen as NPR's "Song of the Day" Wednesday. Comparing it to "one of those half-remembered Sugar Ray hits from a decade ago," NPR's David Browne is a little taken aback by the band's idea of a "glorious summer day": "As the music revs up, the litany of environmental disasters continues," he writes. "Trees burn to cinders and oceans boil; even the air conditioners are at loose ends." Sounds like Houston to

  August 4, 2009

• Zoya Shuhatovich plays Shostakovich

  September 10, 2009

• NPR Visits Houston To Examine Growth, Using A Soothing Voice

  ​You may have missed it this morning -- but a podcast should be available here (and part two is tomorrow)-- but NPR's Morning Edition came to Houston to look at how we handle growth.The network's Steve Inskeep said Houston represents the latest chapter of the Urban Frontier series because we have faced challenges and still do.Greater Houston has around 5.7 million people. They're spread across roughly 10,000 square miles. That's a larger land area than New Jersey.So many people, so many big ai

  September 17, 2009

• Alamo Heights

  October 1, 2009

• StoryCorps Historias

  November 19, 2009

• Vegetarian Thanksgiving

  Photo by Major Clanger There will be no Tofurky on this year's table.​Eating Our Words isn't a vegetarian (or -- perish the thought -- a vegan), but we have a lot of friends who are. And for those folks, Thanksgiving can be a nightmare of avoiding the main show (that dried out or deep-fried turkey) while navigating gloppy side dishes like green bean casserole, diabetic-coma-inducing syrupy sweet potatoes and dry, bland stuffing that is only partially palatable when drenched with a copio

  November 18, 2009