Tony Griffey and Friends in Concert
Four-time Grammy Award-winning tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, and acclaimed concert guitarist, recording artist, arranger and University of NC School of the Arts faculty Joseph Pecoraro recently stopped by WFDD's Studio A for a live preview of their new holiday CD This Little Light.
A 'Hobbit,' Off On His Unhurried Journey
Peter Jackson takes his audience back to Middle-earth in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, set in a time before the Lord of the Rings films. NPR's Bob Mondello says that where the Rings films struggled with what to omit, The Hobbit labors to justify its three-hour running time.
10 Books To Help You Recover From A Tense 2012
2012 was a very jittery year — what with the presidential election, extreme weather events and the looming "fiscal cliff." Fresh Air critic Maureen Corrigan found that her favorite fiction and nonfiction this year directly confronted the atmospheric uncertainty of the age.
Yadkin Cultural Arts Center presents Exquisite Miniatures
Imagine a painting of the entire U.S. capitol building the size of your thumb.
Joseph Kennedy, 'Patriarch' Of An American Dynasty
In a new book, biographer David Nasaw profiles the father of Robert, John and Teddy, and unpacks the elder Kennedy's influence on his children. "He told them over and over again, 'I'm making all this money so you don't have to make money, so that you can go into public service,' " Nasaw says.
The Forget-Me-Nots
The Forget-Me-Nots are young fiddlers Willa and Ledah Finck and Maura Shawn Scanlin.
Oprah's Book Club Turns Over A New Page
Oprah Winfrey says her Book Club grew out of a desire to talk to authors after finishing their books. While the original version of the club ended when Winfrey's television show went off the air in 2011, it has now been rebooted online and on the new Oprah Winfrey Network as Book Club 2.0.
Piedmont Dance Theatre and The Salisbury Symphony present Nutcracker
Piedmont Dance Theatre's Nutcracker keeps Salisbury Symphony conductor David Hagy on his toes!
Oprah's Second Pick: A First-Time Novelist
Oprah Winfrey's second pick for her rebooted book club is The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, by first-time novelist Ayana Mathis. It's a chronicle of the Great Migration of African-Americans leaving the rural South, following a family matriarch who leaves Georgia to start a new life in Philadelphia.
Lemony Snicket Dons A Trenchcoat
In Who Could That Be at This Hour?, a prequel to A Series of Unfortunate Events, Daniel Handler satirizes pulp mysteries and uncovers the parallels between detective fiction and childhood. In both, he says, an outsider is trying to make his way in a mysteriously corrupt world.