Search results for

At the end of a year in which pop songs were a constant, provocative part of the national conversation, NPR Music critic Ann Powers sifts through the 100 most popular songs of the year to highlight 10 pure pop pleasures worth remembering.

In today's episode, Bradley University associate professor Patricia Saleeby talks about her visit to the United Nations to promote a new framework for talking about disability in the medical community. Then, Bradley University's theater department takes a stab at one of the longest running murder mysteries, learn about their production of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap. Plus, reporter Joe Deacon sits down for his monthly conversation with Peoria Mayor Rita Ali, hear the mayor's thoughts on affordable housing availability, the recent report from the joint commission on racial justice and equity and more.

Climate change hasn’t recently been a Republican priority. But some young conservatives are hoping to change the narrative within their party.

In today's episode, you'll hear about the new way to contact emergency services in Tazewell County. And a new book takes a closer look at Illinois' highways and byways. Plus on this week's episode of Out and About, Dr. Andrew Morgan, founder of the Penguin Project, talks about their upcoming production of 'Footloose' the musical - youth edition.

Recommendations include "Fargo" and "The Crown."

Dig below the strata of pop songs so ubiquitous you can't stand to hear them anymore, and you'll find plenty of riches in the Top 40, from country crossover to innovative R&B and classic pop.

Tennis's top-ranked Swiatek beat Gauff 6-1, 6-3 in the final at Roland Garros. Swiatek's unbeaten run of 35 matches equals one by Venus Williams in 2000 as the longest this century.

The pair led the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6 , 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Toni Morrison's 1987 work Beloved is the best American novel of the past quarter-century. That's according to a vote of writers and critics who were invited to weigh in with their choices by The New York Times Book Review.