Director Tim Burton's new film Big Fish stars Albert Finney as a fable-making father whose stories have caused his son to doubt his every word. 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.
An increase in visitors from Asia is giving the Hawaiʻi tourism industry a boost as we recover from the pandemic shutdowns. One good sign is the number of Japanese runners who have signed up for this weekend's Honolulu Marathon. Japanese participation in the premier race has almost doubled what it was last year.
On the 82nd anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, we share the history of a young Navy man whose diary is making its way across the Pacific Ocean. The journal offers a glimpse of the 23-year-old sailor's life leading up to the attack.