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The former Tiny Desk Contest entrant performs three sentimental, compassionate songs from their debut album.

Russell and her talented band embody healing community; watch a performance of songs from her astounding, unclassifiable album Outside Child.

It's the largest yearly jump in candy prices the CPI has ever recorded.

Hurray for the Riff Raff performed songs of survival, community and rediscovery from the album LIFE ON EARTH at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., as part of NPR Music's 15th anniversary celebration.

Andress writes songs that have a way of digging up clear-headed truths; here, she performs three tracks from across her catalog.

The Cain Center for the Arts opened in Cornelius in January. In addition to an intimate gallery, the center features a 400-seat theater and various types of art classes.

Watch the restless singer-songwriter in a set of penetrating new tunes, capped with a breathtaking love song.

Two musical cultures come together to create something that didn't exist before in this Tiny Desk performance.

Takoma Park, Md.-based Appliance Distributors Unlimited is one of the largest dealers of home appliances in the metropolitan Washington area. It has taken steps to permanently reduce its energy use. It's moving to energy-efficient lighting, recycling and other steps.

The plot is wacky and not at all politically correct, but Rossini's cross-cultural opera shattered another stereotype: that of the damsel in distress.

Lully shows us what happens when mere mortals get involved with the gods.

The duo bring their twisted musical sense of humor, honed for over 50 years, to the Tiny Desk.

In Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, author Tristram Stuart chronicles how vast quantities of food are blithely tossed out daily in much of the developed world. He notes that South Korea recycles 97 percent of its food waste; the U.S., just 3 percent.

Handel, a German composer, became a superstar in London, England, by writing Italian operas. Ariodante, one of his best, is set in Scotland, and was premiered in 1735 in a then brand new theater at London's Covent Garden.

"I wanted to show another side of my passion," says 25-year-old Hailey Niswanger, whose new album PDX Soul is a departure from her previous straight-ahead jazz albums.

Who knew there were story franchises in the Baroque era?

It wasn't just Shakespeare who inspired Verdi to new creative heights — he also drew from the author of 'Les Miserables.'

Tracy K. Smith is today's poet in residence at NPR's All Things Considered. She spent the day in the newsroom taking in the sights and sounds, and learning how the show comes together. Then she composed a poem about the day's headlines.

Wherein a young Provencal woman falls for a man far below her station, with tragic results.