Fletcher Powell

School's out, so we're celebrating all the new graduates by looking at the backgrounds of some graduation-related words.

KMUW's Fletcher Powell looks at a new adaptation of a celebrated literary work.

This week, we look at the (sometimes huge) differences between the technical, specialized definitions of words, and what they mean to everybody else.

Fletcher Powell says the new installment in a Netflix mystery series is mysteriously terrible.

We look at the confusing, but surprisingly intuitive, world of adjective and adverb order and how we can know what we're doing without knowing what we're doing.

From the outset, we know that Night Nurse is going to be sleazy and trashy and it's going to like it.

We take another shot at figuring out what's good and bad about the technical uses of common words.

Once every summer, commercial truckers in Kansas gather for the state's professional truck driving championship.

Silos – tower-like structures on farms that hold fermented feed for livestock – have dotted the landscape for 150 years.

Fletcher Powell says a new movie is one of the best movies of the year.