As holiday roadtrips grow imminent, it’s time to plan how you’ll while away the hours you’ll spend in transit. Here at Flavorpill, we’re stocking our iPods with playlists for every time of day, part of the country, and state of mind. But listening to music only goes so far when you’re craving good conversation and your shotgun rider has fallen asleep (or you’re taking the bus or plane solo), which is why we’re filling up on brain candy in addition to ear candy. Below the jump, browse through the engrossing, educational, and entertaining podcasts we highly recommend for the road. … Read More
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Video of the Day: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Linguistic Immortality
Robert Krulwich and Adam Cole explore the pros and pitfalls of being immortalized in the English language in a comical, new animated video from NPR. In paper puppet form, Cole travels through the dictionary singing a folksy tune about those who have passed but live on as eponyms — something he’d very much like to do. But after Krulwich points out that not everyone who’s had something named after him has been better better off, citing Joseph Guillotin and John Duns Scotus as examples, Cole swiftly changes his tune. Watch the video after the jump. … Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. This is the most exciting news we’ve read in a while: Starting this fall Nickelodeon will air old episodes of shows like Rugrats, Kenan & Kel, Pete & Pete, The Amanda Bynes Show, All That, and Clarissa Explains It All in a new midnight-to-2 am programming block dubbed “The ’90s Are All That.” [via… Read More
What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we got some much-needed advice on how to compose the perfect love song from The Axis Of Awesome. We were grateful to the Fug Girls for noticing that Lady Gaga had an outfit change while inside of her Grammys egg. We sent half of our friends … Read More
Daily Dose Pick: This Is NPR
National Public Radio chronicles four decades of broadcasting independent-arts and political programming across America with a new book presenting the faces behind the radio dial.
A constant companion to daily commuters and fans of arts and culture journalism, NPR celebrates what it does best in This Is NPR: The First Forty Years, combining stellar graphic design, in-depth interviews, behind-the-scenes photos, and rare anecdotes from its best-loved voices. And if reading the radio is too strange, there’s also an audio version. … Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. The 2010 Emmy nominations are in, with two of our favorite shows, Mad Men and Glee, leading the pack. [via EW]
2. According to Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, the band is leaving Nonesuch Records and starting its own label. [via Pitchfork]
3. National Public Radio is officially changing its name… Read More
What’s on at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds In Our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we wondered if you’d even be able to smell this steak scent-emitting billboard if it was in Times Square. We crushed on NPR a little harder after watching this video that they made for D8. We got to see what Google Creative Labs’ Ed Kim wears to work each day,… Read More
Spooky Science: The Crows Are After Us
We may never listen to NPR Morning Edition again. In a recent installment of “Brain Candy,” we learned that crows can not only recognize human facial characteristics, they can hold a serious grudge. University of Washington researcher John Marzluff ran an experiment asking various people – bald, hairy, young, old, attractive – to take a stroll while wearing the same caveman mask he had previously worn to bother the cranky birds. Even when participants wore the mask upside down, crows screamed, squawked, and scolded en masse at the wearers. Surprisingly, a Dick Cheney mask attracted little attention, except from the students on… Read More
Advance Notice: Dirty Projectors’ “Bitte Orca”
As a general rule, Dirty Projectors songs are loquacious. They sputter and bellow and blurt until their every edge is on display, and the edges mumble into one another every once in a while. In keeping with this pattern, listening to the Dirty Projectors’ new album, Bitte Orca (which NPR is streaming here), is like pouring out another round from a carafe full of bliss to a tipsy, antsy… Read More
This Morning’s Top 5 Cultural Stories
1. James Frey and Oprah are totally not fighting — in fact, Oprah even called to bury the hatchet. [via Vanity Fair]
2. Star Trek breaks IMAX records, and our wallets in the process [via Slash Film] (Also: Don’t get fooled like Aziz.)
3. Tao Lin has sold his MySpace page on… Read More
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