The same company behind Hello Kitty use Rankin/Bass magic to turn The Nutcracker into a fever dream of an animated feature in ...

On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.

Ragtime genius Reginald Robinson will play the Dawes House's vintage Steinway on Feb. 8. Black History Month is in full swing ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on ...

Is anyone out there?” is an age-old inquiry not limited by time or borders. It resonates with our curiosity, the vastness of ...

Maria Doyle Kennedy, Una Healy, Lemoncello and Rachael Lavelle – along with special guest Sabina Higgins and host Laura ...

Ditch Lily’s lineup solidified throughout the albums. Champion, who plays guitar, and Leah Sienowski, who plays violin, split ...

The New Orleans long-running funk outfit Galactic pulled into Brooklyn Bowl on Friday, January 31st, for the first gig of a ...

I wanted Midwestern prairies, but we moved to his hometown on the West Coast. He wooed me and wanted L.A. to seduce me. Would ...

I received in the mail a CD from Germany. Titled “Transfigured Tchaikovsky,” the recording features 16 piano transcriptions ...

Megan Grumbling is a poet and writer who lives in Portland. DEEP WATER: Maine Poems is produced in collaboration with the ...

Lunar New Year, often called the Spring Festival or Chinese New Year, is the most important holiday in China and many other ...