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In the ASUC Senate Chambers on Saturday, students gathered around a picture of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, who was greatly loved by many in attendance, to commemorate his recent death.
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Bob Boilen knows more about music than you do. If his name doesn’t sound familiar, his resume might: He’s the host and creator of NPR’s “All Songs Considered” and the Tiny Desk Concert series (the webcast that helped catapult a number of now-big-name artists to fame — Macklemore, Passion Pit
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I stared into its black, beady, little eyes. Then I popped it in my mouth, expecting the worst, but it was crunchy and tasted like garlic, lime and chili. I was in a market in Oaxaca, Mexico, and mounds of fried grasshoppers, called chapulines, are a common sight. They’re addictive
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I felt as though I was embarking a journey with complete strangers, like we shared something in common that was often overlooked in our rushed daily lives, which we conduct by creating walls of difference rather than bridges of community. For a moment, the anxiety of interacting with strangers was gone.
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So you’ve been in Main Stacks for a while, your brain feels fried and all you want to do is go home and lay in bed with your laptop. You begin to scroll aimlessly through Facebook. You might start to binge-watch Game of Thrones or maybe go on YouTube to
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“We know that you have no idea what you’re in for at all.” Show host Ira Glass acknowledged that combining dance and radio seems, and is, a bit ludicrous. As two separate media — one primarily based in audio and one primarily based in visuals — nothing inherently combines the
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Davy Rothbart, the founder and editor of FOUND magazine, strolled onstage at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. The center is stately and bilingual, and the author was slightly incongruous in his engagement at this venue. He took the stage in a bright pink jersey. He carried a gold
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A scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory won a MacArthur “genius grant” on Wednesday for his efforts to restore historic audio recordings.
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NPR has been up on their hip-hop game for a little while now, as some of you might recall them streaming Childish Gambino’s album, Camp, a week before its release back in November of 2011. So, continuing with that tradition, NPR has officially upped its street-cred by offering a full-album-stream from the
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