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  • Wil Smith visited StoryCorps with his daughter, Olivia, in Sheffield, Mass.
    A Single Dad And His Unlikely College Roommate
    In 1996, Wil Smith enrolled as a freshman at Bowdoin College. He was 27 and recently out of the Navy. So he set off for school with his one-year-old daughter, Olivia, in tow. Now that she's a teenager, Olivia sat down with her dad to look back on their "college days" together.
  • NFL And DNC Compete For Prime Time Viewers
    Robert Siegel speaks with Eric Deggans, pop culture critic for the Tampa Bay Times, about the TV ratings for the NFL kickoff Thursday night versus the Democratic Convention coverage.
  • A jar of roadside honey from the Green Mountains in Libya.
    Local Libyan Honey Is Sweet, But Is It Good For What Ails Us?
    The Revolutionary Road trip crew turns to The Salt for advice on whether some local Libyan honey could heal one member's upset stomach.
  • Zoroastrian priests pray to honor the dead inside a temple in Pune, India, on Aug. 18, 2010. Each of the dead is represented by a vase filled with flowers. Parsis forbid images of their funeral ceremonies, where the deceased are taken to the Tower of Silence and consumed by vultures and other birds of prey.
    Vanishing Vultures A Grave Matter For India's Parsis
    Parsis brought their Zoroastrian faith, and unique funeral rituals, to India from Iran a thousand years ago. Parsis believe burying or cremating the dead pollutes nature and traditionally relied on birds of prey to devour corpses. That tradition is now under threat, due in part to a vulture shortage.
  • Pittsburgh Pirates fans reach for a foul ball hit into the stands by Mike Moustakas of the Kansas City Royals in the seventh inning of a game in Pittsburgh.
    The Language Of Baseball: In Is Out And Foul Is Fair
    Why is it called a foul ball? Why not just say it's out? Commentator Frank Deford doth wonder if the language in baseball hath Shakespearean roots.
  • Obama Spends Labor Day With Ohio Union Workers
    President Obama spent the day campaigning in Ohio and visiting Hurricane Isaac-ravaged areas in Louisiana. Scott Horsley joins Melissa Block to talk about the president's message.
  • Matt Weiner has little reason to be as 'mad' as any of the characters that he has created.
    Matt Weiner's 'Mad Men,' A Dazzling Product
    Two Golden Globe wins, 16 Emmy nominations, and a new season on its way: The AMC television drama Mad Men seems on its way to making itself a household name. Celebrating its success is creator Matt Weiner.
  • Date palms in Coachella Valley, Calif.
    Forbidding Fruit: How America Got Turned On To The Date
    Introducing the humble date to the U.S. over decades in the 20th century required dangerous Middle Eastern adventures, harem pants and a little bit of sex. Hollywood helped with movies like Cleopatra.
  • North Memphis' Manassas Tigers Coach Bill Courtney and player O.C. Brown stand on the sidelines in a scene from the Oscar-nominated documentary <em>Undefeated</em>.
    'Undefeated' Filmmakers Talk Friday Nights' Fights
    In an Oscar-nominated documentary, T.J. Martin and Dan Lindsay follow an inner-city high school football team in Tennessee, profiling its coaches and players, and showing their struggles on and off the field.
  • People walk past a closed business affected by Hurricane Sandy in the heavily damaged South Street Seaport in New York City in December.
    In Lower Manhattan, Sandy Still Keeping Businesses Dark
    Almost three months after Superstorm Sandy, parts of lower Manhattan are limping along to recovery. More than 20 large buildings are without power, and many businesses remain closed and boarded up. Even businesses that are open are struggling without the old foot traffic.
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