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A lawyer, a blonde, a nun and a trombone player walk into a bar......It could only be a joke-a-thon weekend on A Prairie Home Companion! Not only will you…

How did NPR become a ground breaker for female journalists? It may not be why you think. Nina Totenberg recalls in a Newsweek article that it was a…

At the recent Alabama Associated Press Awards banquet, Alabama Public Radio's news department racked up four awards! Maggie Martin's story "The Battle for…

As many of you may know, APR is owned by The University of Alabama. That means we work on UA's calendar. We don't get a student's schedule, but we do get…

Usually, when a news outlet makes a mistake there is a little snippet buried in the corner of a back page of the paper, at the end of the newscast or just…

Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is celebrating its 75th anniversary. To celebrate, the BSO is streaming a different historic Tanglewood concert on its website every day for 75 days.

McDonald's deal to block others from selling fries at the Olympics is giving some people heartburn. Hear more tonight on All Things Considered, and check out our Storify of what we're reading now.

Researchers say there's no evidence electric fans actually provide relief in a heat wave. So they're calling for more research, even though heat waves are hard to predict and even harder to study once they hit.

Guitar technician Shane Timm is one of the many people who make the band fun.'s tour possible. Timm is in charge of the 45 pieces of musical equipment that travel with the band on its summer tour.

Saturday is Bastille Day, and the Tour de France is underway. Nearly 200 cyclists have just finished a grueling three-day stretch in the mountains and are headed down to the southern coast. Host Scott Simon talks about the race and its so-called doping era with reporter Joe Lindsey of Bicycling Magazine.