The new Al Pacino movie People I Know offers an acid portrait of Manhattan politics, and Pacino provides the story with a complex, nuanced anti-hero. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a review.
Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.
Inside: Emerald Isle After Dark at Paradise Tango, Western Fanfare at Doris Duke Theatre, Watercolor in Līhuʻe, cycling kkills in Kaimukī, swing dance in Hilo, Hawaiian Soul at The MACC, and a taiko celebration at Moanalua High School. This week, we hear from Kyla Herrmann, HPR's On-Air Campaign & Community Events Producer.
Retired Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vares Lum, head of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, talks about the purpose of the center and the state of affairs in the Middle East.