In late 1995, "This American Life" first took to the airwaves on WBEZ radio in Chicago. Each week — as the introduction of each episode reminds us — it chooses a theme, and stitches together a series ...

Ira Glass Calls Out Mötley Crüe for Breaking a Decade-Old Promise originally appeared on Parade. In 2013, Tommy Lee made a point to say that Mötley Crüe never wanted to be the type of band that played ...

This American Life host and creator Ira Glass has acquired full ownership of the show, breaking away from his longtime home at Chicago Public Media, according to Chicago media reporter Robert Feder.

For over 30 years (since 1995) Ira Glass has been one of, if not THE voice of public radio. His show, This American Life, has won Peabody awards, the first ever audio journalism Pulitzer. And it’s ...

Campbell Hall at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) was packed last week as legendary NPR host Ira Glass joined distinguished author Pico Iyer for an evening filled with gentle humor and conversations ...

I know what you're thinking: Shakespeare, ugh! Is this one of those take-your-medicine, eat-your-spinach, good-for-you stories I should watch but really don't WANT to watch? Well, fear not! Ira Glass, ...

Ira Glass is prepared to disappoint you. On the street, in the grocery store, at a restaurant, the witty, stuttering, guffawing, nasally, dorky, much-loved host of This American Life knows that he ...

It could be argued that in this age of social media and quick-hit information, storytelling has become a lost art. Not so if you’re a listener of Ira Glass, the creator and host of NPR’s “This ...

Ira Glass is the creator, producer & host of This American Life, the iconic weekly public radio program with millions of listeners around the world. Using audio clips, music, and video, Ira Glass ...

He was pegging it to a performance of King Lear at Shakespeare in the Park that he attended with Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer among others (the selfie can be found here) and, as one helpful tweeter ...

Public radio hero Ira Glass wasn’t always such a public radio hero. In fact, he says, looking back, he wouldn’t even have hired himself as an intern. He plays for us the first public radio story he ...