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As an arts correspondent based at NPR West, Mandalit del Barco reports and produces stories about film, television, music, visual arts, dance and other topics. Over the years, she has also covered everything from street gangs to Hollywood, police and prisons, marijuana, immigration, race relations, natural disasters, Latino arts and urban street culture (including hip hop dance, music, and art). Every year, she covers the Oscars and the Grammy awards for NPR, as well as the Sundance Film Festival and other events. Her news reports, feature stories and photos, filed from Los Angeles and abroad, can be heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, Alt.latino, and npr.org.
FGCU students got a taste of alien abduction and animal testing recently as peta2 brought its virtual reality simulation “Abduction” to campus. The event invited students to step into a simulated scenario designed to mirror what peta2 said were experiences animals endure in laboratory testing.
On a warm April morning at the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge, visitors gathered under a pavilion to do something out of their comfort zones. Many people run when they hear the steady hum of a honeybee. But on April 2, an audience went against their natural instincts to avoid bees but leaned in to observe them. Inside a sealed glass hive, thousands of honeybees moved in a steady rhythm, building, communicating and working together.