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Leaders of nine CMS schools on Charlotte's west side are considering going to a year-round school calendar, but they want to get the go ahead from parents…

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police have identified the victim of a fatal shooting that took place late Saturday night northwest of uptown Charlotte.

The Rhode Island Tree Council wants to set the record for hugging trees on Saturday. And, Christopher Swain, a clean-water advocate, swam in New York's most polluted canal. He said it tasted bad.

A marathon baseball game in St. Louis raises money for families of injured or deceased firefighters and police officers.

http://66.225.205.104/CT20110819.mp3 30 Years Of WFAE (Rebroadcast) Thirty years ago this year, on June 29th, 1981, 90.7fm WFAE first went on the air as a…

Colossal was founded by tech entrepreneur Ben Lamm and Harvard biologist George Church. The duo wants to resurrect the long-extinct woolly mammoth by reprogramming elephant DNA.

Clifford's new book is The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy. The lost fleet was a group of French ships that sank in 1678 on the reef of Las Aves island, 100 miles off the Venezuelan coast.

At age 53, Texas singer James Hand has just released his debut album, The Truth Will Set You Free. Hand has been singing and playing for nearly four decades, but he's mostly performed in small-town dives. Hand is also a horse trainer when he's not singing.

Wynton Marsalis, Norah Jones, Elvis Costello, Dianne Reeves and dozens more perform in a concert to benefit survivors of Hurricane Katrina, recorded Sept. 17 at New York's Rose Theater.

Bill Clinton's presidential library opens in Little Rock, Ark., providing a home for millions of records and a research center for scholars. President Bush and former presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Clinton himself commemorate the opening. Hear NPR's Mara Liasson.

The Philadelphia band The War on Drugs is steeped in music of the past, mining the territory between Americana and the esoteric U.K. rock of the '80s. Hear The War on Drugs, recorded live in concert from WXPN and Wiggins Park in Philadelphia.

Playing pure pop music isn't always as commercially rewarding as it should be, but The Redwalls' music doesn't seem influenced by the modern marketplace anyway. Hear The Redwalls, recorded live in concert from WXPN and Wiggins Park in Philadelphia.

Hear the Chicago-based ensemble lay down a killer groove, composed by electronic music producer Jlin.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Turkish bass baritone Burak Bilgili about being asked to fill in as Leporello in the New York Metropolitan Opera's production of Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Gangster movies tend to do well at the box office -- from James Cagney in The Public Enemy to Denzel Washington in American Gangster. Guests and callers weigh in on what is it about gangster allure that movie watchers find so enjoyable.

Rodrigo Garcia's Nine Lives peeks into the lives of nine women... but only for about 10 minutes at a time. He's attracted an all-star cast to the project, which builds on his past exercises in minimalist filmmaking.

Filmmakers and writers are looking at the events of Sept. 11 through the prism of fiction. Some see heroism, others black comedy. A film critic, an author and a poet discuss whether art helps make sense of an event that, for many, remains incomprehensible.

He's been called many things, including the best carpenter in New York City and the man who builds impossible things.

Three years ago, Tessera Technologies in Charlotte announced it was going to expand. It was going to create 185 jobs that averaged $70,000-plus. In…

http://66.225.205.104/CA20100630.mp3Faded store signs. Boxed-up merchandise. Moving trucks. Quiet hallways. This is not how Eastland Mall used to look.…