Trey Graham

Ever Wanted To Help Cover The News? Here's How You Can — In The UK, Anyway

Trey Graham — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:15:00 +0000

I get somewhere between four and six e-mails every day from NPR's news managers, each one an update on the network's coverage plans for the day — and each one bearing this stern all-caps warning:

*THIS NOTE IS STRICTLY FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY: INFORMATION IS NOT FOR PUBLICATION, BROADCAST OR SHARING WITH THIRD PARTIES*

Like most news organizations, we keep our so-called "story budgets" close to the vest, not least out of competitiveness.

Not so at Britain's Guardian newspaper, though — at least not at the moment.

For Halloween, Please Enjoy This Story In Which NPH Freaks Out Ever So Gently

Trey Graham — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:18:00 +0000

It's Halloween. Want to hear Neil Patrick Harris get freaked out?

Thought so. You'll want to click on that play button above, and check out Neda Ulaby's All Things Considered piece on an L.A. haunted house — more of an interactive play, really — called Delusion.

It's the brainchild of Hollywood stuntman Jon Braver, who rounded up some Tinseltown collaborators and rigged up a decrepit old mansion to look like an early-20th-century insane asylum.

John Hodgman And Robert Siegel Consider 'All' Things, Some Of Them Rather Dubious

Trey Graham — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:50:00 +0000

If there's anything guaranteed to lift the heart of an NPR nerd, it's the sound of All Things Considered's Robert Siegel losing his composure. This is a news anchor, after all, who can deliver the song title "Party 'Til You Puke" with all the gravity of a president announcing the death of a hero. (No, really.

The Headline From NY Fashion Week: Print(s) Is Not Dead

Trey Graham — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Today's the last day of New York Fashion Week, that twice-yearly ritual at which retailers and editors give us a look at what we're going to be craving in spring. Big this year: prints. Whimsical prints.

To get a bead on what looks like a swing back away from minimalism, Morning Edition guest host David Greene talks to Sally Singer, editor-in-chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine.

"A woman only needs so many pairs of chic black pants," Singer says. "Or so many cream jackets. What does she need now?

Furs, Feathers and Finding The Fabulous With 'Priscilla's' Bernadette

Trey Graham — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:30:00 +0000

Yesterday, we brought you a few words from Priscilla Queen of the Desert co-star Will Swenson, a square-jawed, dark-haired actor whose Tick is kind of the Don Draper of drag queendom.

But with a show about three big personalities trekking across the Australian Outback in a pink bus called Priscilla, there's plenty of glitter still to go around.