culture

Celebrating China's Spring Festival In New England

Rebecca Lavoie — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:08:07 +0000

This week marks the start of the Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year. This fifteen-day celebration is the longest and most important holiday in China, featuring family reunions, fireworks, traditional meals, red lanterns, and the traditional gift of the Hong Bao, or Red Packet.

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino Warms Up New Hampshire

Zach Nugent — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:00:00 +0000

It’s not often you get to hear authentic world music in New Hampshire, especially in the dead of winter. But on February 6^th at the Spaulding Auditorium in Hanover, the southern Italian band Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino will be bringing their high energy pizzica tarantata music and dance. Leading a new wave of young Italian artists reinventing and invigorating traditional Italian music, CGS includes six singers/musicians and a dancer.

I think it would be impossible not to have fun at a show like this:

The World Cup of Sandwich, NH

Sean Hurley — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Frances Moore Lappé (Rebroadcast)

Brady Carlson — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:00:00 +0000

We broadcast one of our favorites from the Exchange archive vault on Monday, our interview with food writer and activist Frances Moore Lappe

Computers Like Music

Virginia Prescott — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:12:56 +0000

Leon Neyfakh talks about how computers can analyze music in ways humans can't.

Tibetan Monks Meet Shaker Tradition

Todd Bookman — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:53:28 +0000

This weekend, the Canterbury Shaker Village opens its doors for the season.

It’s 600 acres of stillness, of restored buildings and manicured fields. But there’s one thing missing.

“Visitors come here expecting to see Shakers,” says Funi Burdick, Executive Director of the Village.

Episode 805: Fate and Fortune

NHPR Staff — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:00:00 +0000

What decides the trajectory of our lives, our successes or failures, our steps and stumbles? Do we achieve what we achieve through force of will, or does fate have us by the throat? This hour, Radiolab explores the tug of war between will and fate from birth to death - from a kid reaching for a marshmallow to hints of dementia in the words of a 20-year-old.

For more information, visit http://www.radiolab.org/.

Episode 804: Cities

NHPR Staff — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:59:00 +0000

Over 50% of the planet now lives in cities. This hour, Radiolab looks at what makes them tick. We talk to a couple physicists who think they can fit every city into a tidy mathematical formula, and we take to the streets to test their idea. We explore the water tunnels 700 feet below Manhattan and question whether cities are the source of, or the solution for, our growing global appetite.

For more information, visit http://www.radiolab.org/.

Episode 803: Falling

NHPR Staff — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:00:00 +0000

There are so many ways to fall - falling in love, falling asleep, even falling flat on your face. In an episode full of falling music, Radiolab plunges into a black hole, takes a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel, and debunks some myths about falling cats.

For more information, visit http://www.radiolab.org/.

The Skinny on Pinterest

Virginia Prescott — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:29:39 +0000

Social media’s star child, Pinterest, is under the pin point for its pro-anorexia photos.

Van Gogh to Go

Virginia Prescott — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:01:55 +0000

The library is no longer just for books! How a museum in Chicago is lending original works of art and all it takes, is a library card.

Parenting Around the World

Brady Carlson — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:26:35 +0000

One author explores the various methods of raising children, from late bed times to early potty training.

Crossing the BLVD

Virginia Prescott — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:23:52 +0000

An uber-creative couple's ambitious project tells the stories of immigrants, and unpacks the complicated consequenes of globalization.