NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg explores the origins of the Christmas anthem, "White Christmas" written by Irving Berlin to an initially lackluster response from critics.
Joan Nathan has spent her life exploring Jewish culture through recipes. Now in her 80s, her new book is her most personal work yet — excavating her own culinary history.
Under the glare of the lights in New York's Time Square, a Nigerian chess master makes his bid to break the world record for the longest continuous chess game to raise money for children back home.