NPRflipped into Arts & Life A First-Generation Teen Tests The Bounds Of Family And Faith In 'Hala' NPR - Soraya Nadia McDonaldDiscovering your parents aren't perfect and that they're actually far more complicated than you imagined is never easy to process. But it can feel especially overwhelming when you're 17, like the protagonist
NPRflipped into World NewsWorld News New Zealand Scrambles To Treat Burn Victims From Volcanic Eruption NPR - Paolo ZialcitaNew Zealand health officials have ordered nearly 1,300 square feet of cadaver skin to treat patients injured when a volcano spewed hot ash and deadly toxins across an inland off the country's coast earlier
NPRflipped into World NewsWorld News A Kid In A Refugee Camp Thought Video Games Fell From Heaven. Now He Makes Them NPR - Emily VaughnLual Mayen, a video game developer based in Washington, D.C., remembers the first time he saw a computer. He was just a kid at the time. It was 2007, and his family was registering for benefits at a refugee
NPRflipped into MusicMusic The Wood Brothers Brings The Quintessential Americana Sound To AmericanaFest NPR - Carina GiamereseThis past September, the 20th annual Americana Music Festival & Conference featured a broad range of showcases from diverse musicians across alt-country, roots-rock, bluegrass, R&B, blues, folk and the
NPRflipped into U.S. NewsExtremism Jersey City Shooting Was 'A Targeted Attack On The Jewish Kosher Deli' NPR - Colin DwyerThe shootings that left at least three civilians and one police officer dead Tuesday in Jersey City, N.J., was a targeted attack, according to local authorities. At a news conference Wednesday, Jersey
NPRflipped into World NewsNews U.K. Election: Weary Voters Are Asked To Decide Brexit's Fate NPR - Frank LangfittVoters in the United Kingdom head to the polls Thursday for a crucial election that could determine the country's future, and how and when it will break off from the European Union. This will be the fifth
NPRflipped into ScienceWorld News Greta Thunberg Is The 'Time' Person Of The Year For 2019 NPR - Bill ChappellGreta Thunberg, the activist who has quickly become a leading voice on climate change, is Time's Person of the Year for 2019. At 16, she is the youngest person to earn the title in the magazine's 92-year
NPRflipped into PoliticsPolitics FAA Chief To Appear Before Congress Concerning 737 Max Crashes NPR The aviation world looked to the FAA as the regulatory gold standard, but that changed after the two crashes. The FAA's leader will answer questions Wednesday about the agency's role in those crashes.
NPRflipped into Morning EditionWorld News Automaker Provision In Tri-Nation Trade Deal Will Benefit U.S., Navarro Says NPR NPR's Noel King talks to White House trade adviser Peter Navarro about the agreement signed by the U.S. Mexico and Canada. NPR's Scott Horsley weighs in on the conversation.
NPRflipped into Morning EditionLas Vegas, NV Why Bird Lovers In Las Vegas Are Confused And A Tad Worried NPR Someone is putting tiny cowboy hats on pigeons in Las Vegas. The Wrangler National Finals Rodeo is in town but denies it had anything to do with the stunt.
NPRflipped into Morning EditionTraffic City In India Uses Dummies To Solve Traffic Officer Shortage NPR Bangalore has 8 million cars and not enough traffic cops. To fill the gap, the city has been setting up traffic mannequins. It's hoped they will bluff drivers into following the rules of the road.
NPRflipped into MusicMusic The 25 Best Albums Of 2019 NPRThis list was made by writers, editors and producers at NPR Music operating under two rules: Albums had to be released during 2019 and no lead artist was allowed to appear on both this list and our list
NPRflipped into MusicMusic Heavy Rotation: Public Radio's Most Popular Songs Of 2019 NPRTo celebrate the end of 2019, we are publishing a special edition of Heavy Rotation – our popular, monthly series that features songs public radio can't stop playing. This list of songs is ranked in order,
NPRflipped into MusicMusic The 25 Best Songs Of 2019 NPRThis list was made by writers, editors and producers at NPR Music operating under two rules: Songs had to be released during 2019 and no lead artist was allowed to appear on both this list and our list
NPRflipped into MusicMusic 10 Rap Albums That Raised The Bar(s) In 2019 NPRBy the time DaBaby's second album, Kirk, debuted at No. 1 this fall, the North Carolina rapper was already on his way to supernova status thanks to his first album, Baby on Baby, released just six months
NPRflipped into MusicMusic 10 Classical Albums To Usher In The Next Decade NPR - Tom HuizengaTraditions worth saving still need need practitioners and advocates who are willing to propel them forward. Classical music boasts a long, rich history — about 1000 years — of transformation, adaptation,
NPRflipped into MusicMusic A Survey Of The Year In 'Latin Music,' Whatever That Means NPRThere is a very good reason the Latin Grammys were established 20 years ago, and as Stefanie Fernández and I looked back at this year in music, we were reminded of it: The width and breadth of expression
NPRflipped into MusicMusic The 15 Best Rock Albums Of 2019 NPRAfter a decade of genre-blending, globalization and the growth of micro-niches, the definition of rock is very much up for debate. But for us — and for the purposes of this list — it means one thing: Big,
NPRflipped into MusicMusic The Best Debut Albums Of 2019 NPRWho made a big noise — or cast an intoxicating spell — with a debut album in 2019? There are many more answers to that rhetorical than we could compile here. And let's state for the record that while Nas
NPRflipped into MusicMusic The Best Reissues And Archival Albums Of 2019 NPR - Tom MoonAnd now, a moment of appreciation for the under-assistant recording engineers and studio gofers who toiled in anonymity in the dimly lit studios of the past. They didn't just get coffee — they were on
NPRflipped into MusicMusic 10 Songs That Rallied Resistance Around The World NPREvery revolution has its music, and the global protests of 2019 are no exception. From Chile to Lebanon, and in worldwide opposition to climate change and to violence against women, certain songs have
NPRflipped into MusicMusic 12 Times Women In Country Gave Sexism The Boot In 2019 NPRFour years after consultant Keith Hill's comment that women artists on country radio were best thought of as garnish — tomatoes, as in "hot" — added fuel to what was already becoming a major debate about
NPRflipped into MusicMusic The 5 Best Songs From Lana Del Rey's 'Norman F****** Rockwell' NPREvery single released before Lana Del Rey's Norman F****** Rockwell! came out in August felt like a new peak climbed, the sign of an artist coming into her greatness. When listeners could finally access
NPRflipped into MusicMusic 9 Afro Dystopian Rap Albums As Dark And Droll As 2019 NPR - Rodney CarmichaelThe decade is on its deathbed. The empire has crumbled. America's jig is up. The 2010s will likely go down as the deadliest era in rap, too. We lost too many voices — to overdoses and unexplainable tragedy
NPRflipped into MusicMusic The Collaborations That Shaped 2019 NPRYou can stream this playlist via Spotify or Apple Music. The past decade hasn't brought us the end of genre, as has been frequently declared. But what we've witnessed, and still are, is cross-pollination
NPRflipped into MusicMusic The Best Cover Songs Of 2019 NPRThe art of covering a song might have reached its pop-culture saturation point this year, thanks to an abundance of special programming (Triple J's Like A Version, BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, Spotify Sessions,
NPRflipped into MusicMusic 11 Jazz Songs That Spoke Truth To Power In 2019 NPRJazz musicians have always spoken their mind in the face of injustice: think of Louis Armstrong and Charles Mingus voicing two different, equally courageous responses to the fight over Little Rock school
NPRflipped into MusicMusic The Friday Night Songs Of 2019 (For The Soiree Or Sofa) NPROut of all the great music released this year, some of it makes for a great party soundtrack and some of it is perfect for when the party is simply too far away and you can't bring yourself to go. We've
NPRflipped into MusicMusic Terrestrial Doom: 30 Songs For Our Age Of Anxiety NPR - Cyrena TourosIn 2019, it was too easy to tie all sorts of small personal worries — health, loans, career plans, relationships, homeownership, anything related to long-term planning — to a larger sense of collective
NPRflipped into MusicMusic Trad Ambition: 21 Country Tunes Livened Up By Looking Back NPR - Jewly HightFor most of this decade, contemporary country-pop has been a realm of particularly porous boundaries and thoroughly hybridized sounds. Before the 2010s, when country was understood as a grown-up music
