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Nicolas Gentile bought land in the Italian countryside and started building. His goal is to create a hobbit village, modeled after J.R.R. Tolkien's Shire. He an his family dress in hobbit clothes.

President Obama will cap off a busy week of politicking with some R&R in Florida, traveling to the West Palm Beach area for what his spokesman called "some well-deserved downtime."

The estate of fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien has successfully blocked a cryptocurrency called "JRR Token."

Underground dance music is retreating from the EDM juggernaut by moving toward tastefulness. But in dance music, as in life, the line between polite and tedious is perilously thin.

UNC Charlotte has joined the ranks of the country’s elite doctoral research universities, now that it has been awarded R1 research status by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

Perhaps no contemporary musician understands the rules of the streaming ecosystem better than the singer Khalid, who emerged as a teenager and is now one of the most listened-to artists in the world.

Miike Snow is a band, not a person. Before its eponymous debut album came out in May, the band's identity was shrouded in mystery. Thanks to several promotional singles and remixes, Miike Snow caught fire in the blogosphere. The group combines sleek, modern production with touches of retro sound.

War is winding down in the Seven Kingdoms, but dynastic struggles continue to loom large. After a six-year wait, A Dance with Dragons — the fifth book in George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series — debuts at No. 1.

A 27-year-old Queens rapper took a defining hip-hop practice and reinvigorated a subgenre, in New York City and beyond.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ravi Patel about his new TV series Pursuit of Happiness.

The romantic comedy Shanghai Calling tells a fish-out-of-water story about a New York attorney on assignment in China. Frank Langfitt went to the Shanghai premiere and spoke with Chinese-American director Daniel Hsia about the film and the growing number of American professionals in China.

The expectations are high with the Wolfpack ranked 13th, matching the program's program’s best for the preseason AP Top 25 set in 1975.

A California-based produce company was the source of fresh onions linked to a deadly E. coli food poisoning outbreak at McDonald’s, restaurant chain officials said.

Katherine Jackson French traveled the Kentucky mountains in the early 1900s searching for traditional ballads that were disappearing. Her work was never published — until now.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Gov. Andy Beshear, D-KY., how he is trying to navigate his state though the economic and health crisis the pandemic presents.

Hidden deep in the hills of Appalachia, there's a tradition of worship music that has not changed since the 18th century. The hymnody is still practiced by congregations of the Old Regular Baptist Church, where a leader calls out a line and the people respond in a mournful, soaring chorus.

With names like Hickory King and Boone County White, heirloom corn finds new popularity. A Kentucky hilltop farmer makes it into corn chips, and a distillery has picked its first historical variety.

Thousands of families across Kentucky and other states hit by tornadoes are facing a difficult road ahead to rebuild. Supplies are limited and workers are in demand as they try to get things in order.

When Grandpa put on his raincoat, that meant it was time to move the ham off the stove, just one step in Grandma's slow-cook process for a salt-cured country ham.

Many brokers feared the new federal health law would make them obsolete. But more than 40 percent of people who signed up for insurance via Kentucky's state exchange used a broker.