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Little Donkey Farms' mascot, Professor, is a symbol of the challenges faced by the farm

How Community Supported Agriculture Sprouted In China

In a village near Beijing, Little Donkey Farm is trying to rebuild a tradition of organic farming in the world's most populous country. It builds on thousands of years of Chinese history, but it's also inspired by American experiences.

It's a given that professional athletes need regular coaching to keep them at the top of their game. Why then, asks surgeon Atul Gawande, shouldn't doctors and teachers use coaches?

Athletes Have Coaches. Why Not Everyone Else?

Coaches regularly pace the sidelines of football fields and push vocalists to do their best. But surgeon and journalist Atul Gawande says that professionals in all fields — not just sports and music — could benefit from regular coaching.

<p>Matt Marek, 9, climbs to the top of a structure on the roof of the 600,000-square-foot City Museum, a former shoe factory turned avant-garde museum in St. Louis, Mon. Bob Cassilly, the museum's founder, died in late September.</p>

Bob Cassilly Remembered: Part Sculptor, Part Kid

A driving force behind City Museum in St. Louis, the sculptor created spaces that invite adults and children to interact with his creations. He died in late September, working on a massive project he called Cementland.

<p>Vera (Elena Anaya) is both patient and obsession for plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), who is bent on creating a synthetic skin that can resist any kind of damage. </p>

Almodovar Gets Under The 'Skin,' But How Deeply?

Pedro Almodovar's film The Skin I Live In reunites him with actor Antonio Banderas, who first came to international attention as an obsessive lover in the director's 1987 film Law of Desire. This time, Banderas plays a scientist driven to replace his dead wife with a carbon-based copy.

<p><strong>Innocence Abroad:</strong> Entranced by their music, Larry (Kris Marshall) leaves Newark for life (and love?) among hunter-gatherer pygmies in the Central African Republic — even though his jungle survival skills aren't up to scratch.</p>

'Oka!': Among The Pygmies, A Jersey Boy At A Loss

Loosely based on the career of a real-life ethnomusicologist, this film takes an alternately warm and jaundiced look at a Central African people whose forest homeland is threatened by industrial logging — and the Newark native who goes to live (and listen, and eventually love) among them.

Three-Minute Fiction: The Final Countdown

The clock is ticking and there are only a few hours left before this round of our Three-Minute Fiction writing contest closes. All stories must be submitted by 11:59 Eastern Time tonight. Our Round 7 judge, Danielle Evans, issued this challenge: One character must come to town and one character must leave town. For the full rules go to npr.org/threeminutefiction.

<strong>Made For Each Other?</strong> In <em>Restless, </em>the cancer-stricken Annabel (Mia Wasikowska) falls for Enoch (Henry Hopper), a death-haunted funeral crasher who's best friends with a ghost.

'Restless': Love And Death, Hand In Hand Again

Gus Van Sant's latest is the tale of a terminally ill teenage girl, her funeral-loving new boyfriend, and her other new acquaintance: the ghost of a World War II kamikaze pilot.

An Otis Redding concert inspired a Texas high school teacher to turn the Kashmere High School Stage Band into a soul powerhouse. In Mark Landsman's film, one former student — a keyboardist, not the unidentified trombonist pictured — says he'd be a felon today if the band hadn't given him a constructive focus.

'Thunder Soul': '70s Sensation Dusts Off Its Groove

Former members of the Kashmere High School Stage Band, known for embracing jazz and blues while their peers exhausted '40s big band, honor their eminent 92-year-old music teacher, Conrad O. Johnson, as the man who gave their lives rhythm and soul.

Latina Moms Find Advice, Community In 'MamiVerse'

The news and lifestyle website MamiVerse launched this summer. It features Latina journalists, writers, entrepreneurs and everyday moms who are just trying to keep it all together. The site is also for the moms' daughters and their families.

<strong>Shade-y Figure?</strong> Peter Gatien, charged with drug crimes in the Manhattan club empire but convicted only of tax evasion, is chief witness for the defense in a film seemingly designed to rehabilitate his image.

A Club King Returns Himself To The 'Limelight'

A documentary, named for one of Peter Gatien's iconic '80s nightclubs, recounts the rise and fall of a clubland king who ran afoul of the DEA.

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