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For nearly four decades, the band has terrorized planet Earth with its raucous stage shows, raunchy metal songs and grotesque satire. GWAR finally came to destroy the Tiny Desk, once and for all.

Two years ago, New Century Financial was the country's second largest subprime mortgage lender. Now, it's in bankruptcy, and a new report mandated by the bankruptcy court shines light on the company's shady practices.

Actor Charlton Heston died over the weekend in Beverly Hills, Calif., at the age of 84. He did more than star in epic films like Midway and Ben-Hur. Some of his characters glimpsed our future — and our collective nightmares.

Renowned bass Samuel Ramey stars as a serial murderer in Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, and as the devious title character in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, a comedy with a corpse at the center of the action. It's a deadly double bill from the Washington National Opera.

With its sensational story, graphic violence and overt sensuality, Bizet's Carmen proves that opera goers are drawn to the same elements that make for pop culture hits at the movies, and on television.

The characters are grim and their story is murky, yet Verdi's memorable music overcomes it all, in one of the composer's most engaging, strikingly beautiful operas.

Georges Bizet is most famous today for the dazzling opera Carmen, but during his lifetime the exotic drama The Pearl Fishers was a far greater success, and it still boasts some of his finest melodies.

Soprano JiYoung Lee stars as a "military brat" who gets adopted by an entire army. The opera is Donizetti's Gallic, romantic romp, The Daughter of the Regiment, from the Washington National Opera.

In his first, true operatic masterpiece, Handel creates an odd-ball comedy filled with scheming characters from ancient Rome. Read the story and hear excerpts from the site of the opera's premiere, in 1710.

Mozart's dark comedy features music of limitless genius, and a drama that lives up to the score.

Some legislators say oil speculation is driving up energy prices. But a report released Tuesday concludes that the spike in oil prices may have more to do with supply and demand.

The Swedish singer belted her way to her second Eurovision win with the pop ballad "Tattoo."

When it comes to opera's founding fathers, Monteverdi stood head and shoulders above all the others. Ulysses, one of his three surviving operas, comes to us from Homer's The Odyssey.

The pioneering hip-hop group rolled into NPR headquarters with a horn section to play five funky tracks.

Bas came to the Tiny Desk to get it, and — in a breathless four-song set — he did exactly that.

The clever rock band delivers a performance 10 years in the making.

The band's Tiny Desk performance featured songs that leaned right into its incalculability.

Writers for film and TV may be on strike, but writers for the stage will get busy this coming week fleshing out ideas for what could be Charlotte's next big show. We speak with the playwright behind the Queen City New Play Initiative ahead of this year's playwright's festival.

Kenneth Anger was a queer underground filmmaker whose bestselling book, Hollywood Babylon, purported to reveal the seamy side of a golden era.

Songwriting team Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally take us on a musical journey from Nashville to Broadway with their musical, Shucked.