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The fervid and desperate "Map Change" is set to the strip clubs, abandoned churches and bingo halls that make up the metalcore band's New York hometown.

Tim Erskine plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Writer Scott Huler talks about the "poetry" of the Beaufort wind scale and its inventor, Sir Francis Beaufort. Huler is the author of Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry.

This year's cookbooks are all about the seasonings — and honing basic kitchen skills, writes T. Susan Chang. The 2007 cookbook shelf has a stylish gift idea for everybody, from your grill-crazy carnivore of an uncle to your vegan massage therapist.

Join us in an online listening party for Dawn Richard's Second Line. Hosted by WNXP's Jewly Hight, the event will feature a live conversation with Richard herself — along with Dawn's mom, Debbie.

Listener Jerry Cordaro plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

From Stagecoach to The Graduate, movies have helped to shape our world. Nick Clooney, former host of cable's American Movie Classics, joins NPR's Bob Edwards to talk about his new book, The Movies That Changed Us: Reflections on the Screen. NPR Online has the list of the 20 movies featured in Clooney's book.

NPR's Don Gonyea plays the puzzle with puzzle master Will Shortz and this week's winner Jamie Tyrrell from Somerville, Mass.

Chubb Ltd.'s Century Indemnity Company said it would contribute to the fund to settle more than 82,000 claims as part of a bankruptcy reorganization ordered in August.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzle master Will Shortz play the puzzle this week with Alec Weisman of San Francisco.

A new study says that MRIs find about twice as many breast cancers as mammograms. Specialists say that high-risk women should have both an MRI and a mammogram, which remains better at detecting certain types of cancer. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

Richard Friedman of Silver Spring, Md., plays this week's puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Caan's memorable screen appearances included Brian's Song, The Godfather, Misery and Elf.

A 5-year-old girl disappeared while walking to her kindergarten class in Seaside, Calif., in 1982. Detectives solved the case using DNA evidence, authorities said.

On "Come Out," tightly sequenced sounds and a rigid snare-drum beat provide a sturdy base over which 120 Days' members layer groaning drones, phased melodies and Adne Meisfjord's snotty vocals. The Oslo band eschews guitars on this nine-minute single, but it puts the "rock" in synth-rock.

William Darondo Pulliam (a.k.a. "Double D" or "Dynamite D") worked in the San Francisco Bay Area from the 1960s through the early '80s, but he'd also been a teenage musician. After cutting some tracks in a studio, Darondo walked away from music.

When young Skyler Pia's friend was sick with cancer, he tried to cheer him up with music. Skyler's choices became a CD: One World, One Kid. Skyler and his mother, Cheryl Pia, tell Debbie Elliott about the experience.

The Federal Trade Commission says Walmart didn't properly train its employees and used procedures that allowed fraudsters to cash out at its stores, stealing hundreds of millions of dollars.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The phenomenal Bireli Lagrene can play anything, but his music extends a vital French tradition. The French guitarist has celebrated the hot club jazz of Django Reinhardt ever since the release of his first CD at age 13. Here, Lagrene performs with the Lausanne Big Band at a concert recorded in Switzerland.