From an elegant performance space in Lagos, Nigeria, Temilade Openiyi, aka Tems, adorns hues that recall the title of her latest EP, If Orange Was a Place. As she slips into performance mode, emoting with her eyelids drooped slightly, she begins "Found" i...
In an extra special Kellyoke, Kelly Clarkson and Cynthia Erivo perform a jazzy duet of "When You Wish Upon A Star" with My Band Y'all.
This performance was recorded on Nov. 8, 2019. We will continue releasing Tiny Desk videos of shows that had already been taped. In light of current events, NPR is postponing new live tapings of Tiny Desk Concerts. In the meantime, check out Tiny Desk (ho...
Jon Batiste is from New Orleans, where a street parade might assemble around the corner on any given day. Evidently, he likes a good walkabout: He's liable to lead his band at a guerrilla concert in the New York City subway, or out of a venue, or — as he...
Written and cameos by Diane Warren. Backing vocals by Pentatonix. Primary vocals by the amazing Jon Batiste. This song has the beat. Purchase below.
The French way to make traditional French toast called in "Pain perdu". Pain perdu ( french toast) literally means "lost bread".
Jacques Pépin adapted this recipe from his time as a breakfast cook at the Hôtel Plaza Athénée in Paris. Jacques uses melted vanilla ice cream and bananas here, but any flavor ice cream or fruit would work well.
Here's how to transform your ice cream into crème brûlée, a French dessert of egg custard with a crackly top of caramel. Let's do this!
Some famous pianists (András Schiff, Vladimir Sofronitsky, Zoltan Kocsis, Elly Ney, Raoul von Koczalski) play on composers' (Franz Liszt, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frederic Chopin, Alexander Scriabin) pianos (Liszt and his Bechstein p...
"Jenifer Lewis and Shangela," a scripted series, follows the comic adventures of Ms. Lewis and D.J. Pierce (aka Shangela) as the show biz mega-diva mentors the up-and-coming drag performer, who lives in the basement apartment of her Hollywood mansion. Th...
Jess is joined by the powerhouse Mother of Black Hollywood, the one and only Jenifer Lewis!
Jennifer Hudson gets the audience emotional as she takes a special song request from 82-year-old Merylyn Freeman. Jennifer sings “Jesus Promised Me a Home Over There” and opens up about the family connection she has with the song.
In his introduction to “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” L. Frank Baum claims that the book is simply an innocent children’s story. But some scholars have found hidden criticisms of late-nineteenth-century economic policies in the book. Is it possible that on...
Everyone remembers 1939’s The Wizard of Oz, starring young Judy Garland; the classic tale that teaches you that there is no place like home, that the greatest weapon is water, and that we all have what we seek within ourselves. The popularity of the movie...
Today we look at the 1985 film Return to Oz to see why it is the most faithful adaptation of L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz universe.
