Search results for

Emily Carter reads Cold Feet: A Christmas Story. It's about Samuel Kaminsky, a hip restaurant owner from Miami. He's sentenced to rehab in Minnesota, and he has a very bad attitude about it. He has contempt for the people in his Minneapolis recovery group and he thinks they wear really ugly shoes. His own shoes are elegant handmade Italian leather loafers, beautiful but entirely unable to keep out the Midwestern winter. On Christmas he's all alone, until he finds a drunken Santa present-laden, passed out in the snow. Kaminsky tries to finish delivering the Santa's presents as a way to secure an invitation to a fancy Christmas party. Instead, he finds redemption - and a pair of big, ugly, warm boots.

New research with two orangutans reveals that orangutans understand things even chimpanzees don't. NPR's Chris Joyce reports.

Many Afghans fleeing the Soviet invasion of their country found a new home in the United States. Now Afghan-Americans are putting together a grass-roots group to provide a "brain trust" to help their war-torn homeland. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

Obesity has become an epidemic among American children. One researcher's solution is to change the parents' habits. Dr. Leonard Epstein has found that children are most successful at losing weight and keeping it off when they team up with their families. NPR's Vicky Que follows one family's experience with Epstein's Stoplight diet and their struggle with obesity.

NPR's John Burnett tells the stories of two men who worked at the Windows on the World restaurant, and perished in the attack on the World Trade Center. Two families -- one in the Bronx, one in Mexico -- are left wondering what to do now.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with James Taylor about how an informal jam in the studio resulted in his new recording of the original version of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas."

Al's Magic Shop, a Washington, D.C., institution for several decades, is closing shop. Proprieter Al Cohen is revered by the world's top magicians as the greatest demonstrator of magic tricks alive.

He composed scores for 33 motion pictures and has worked as an arranger, conductor, and producer with some of the biggest names in the music business, including Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra. Now he's produced a retrospective CD, Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones. Jones talks with Bob Edwards about the new anthology.

Muhammad Ali is one of the most admired sports stars in America today. Fewer than 30 years ago however, he was a clear symbol of a divided nation. In part one of our look at the life of Muhammad Ali, NPR's Senior Correspondent Juan Williams talks with the former champ about his controversy that surrounded him both inside and outside the ring.

Mark Mobley, Music Producer with NPR's Performance Today, offers his appreciation of ex-Beatle George Harrison, who died Thursday at the age of 58.