Guitarist Sharon Isbin talks with Steve Paulson about how she came to the guitar as a child, why women have a harder time than men being accepted as guitarists.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Sasha Issenberg says that modern Sushi was born in 1971 when a Japan Airlines employee first brought Canadian tuna halfway around the world.
An audio installation that gives tropical plants the tools to play synthesizers, allowing people to experience biorhythms as live music.
Writer Terry Tempest Williams recommends the novel "Tracks" by Louise Erdrich. Erdrich, one of the great writers of the Native American Renaissance, is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians.
The three members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company visit with Jim Fleming and perform excerpts from their hilarious versions of the Bard’s plays.
Lani Leary has worked with thousands of dying people and their families. She’s been at the bedside of more than 500 people at the moment of death. Her dedication to working with the dying and bereaved goes back to the painful experience of her own mother’s death when she was a child, when her family told her nothing about how her mother died.
Whose America is it? Writer Thomas King has strong feelings about that. He says Native Americans have been many things to white people. Slaves, stereotypes, savages. And always inconvenient.
John Cleese gave us Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, the Ministry of Silly Walks, and the neurotic hotel manager in Fawlty Towers. He looks back over it all in his new memoir, "So, Anyway."
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