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Paul Spring's first album of family music draws from his own childhood, as w...
Peter Pan And Don Quixote Find The 'Home Of Song'
Paul Spring's first album of family music draws from his own childhood, as well as Mark Twain's.
From 'RoboCop To 'Robot & Frank': Best RoboMovies Of All Time
Science fiction movies throughout time are populated with robots. But when it comes to films with a tight focus on robots only a handful may come to mind. In advance of Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim, TOTN's favorite film buff Murray Horwitz discusses the best robot movies of all time.
Inside The Cel: Behind The Scenes With Animators
The highly anticipated animated films Monsters University, Despicable Me 2 and Turbo hit theaters this summer. From cel technology to full-length, computer-animated, celebrity-studded movies, animation has come a long way.
Looking Ahead To The Future Of Syria's Crisis
To date, the civil war in Syria has claimed tens of thousands of lives and, according U.N. estimates, has caused more than a million refugees to flee to neighboring countries. As part of TOTN's "Looking Ahead" series, NPR foreign correspondent Deb Amos discusses where the conflict may go.
The NSA, Verizon And The Future of Domestic Spying
According to a top-secret court order obtained by The Guardian, the National Security Agency has collected the phone records of millions of U.S. Verizon customers since late April. The Guardian's Spencer Ackerman explains the coming debate over the scale of domestic spying operations.
Formerly of the Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell went solo in 2007 with the a...
Jason Isbell: Literary, But Keeping An Edge On 'Southeastern'
Jason Isbell is a singer-songwriter who came to prominence as a member of the Southern-rock band the Drive-By Truckers. He left that band in 2007, in part because of the substance-abuse problems he mentions in his new solo album Southeastern.