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The NPR Music senior manager shares his favorite albums and songs of 2021.

It was the year of "Stacy's Mom," "Seven Nation Army" and "Hey Ya," along with several excellent albums from singer-songwriters and Warren Zevon's final studio album.

Gay-marriage supporters suffered two high-profile defeats in recent days. More legal battles are ahead. What's next for activists on each side? Brad Sears, an advocate of same-sex marriage, gives Sheilah Kast his view.

The 24-year-old tennis champ is leaving IMG to start an agency of her own.

Between jokes, the punk-rock legends in Carbon/Silicon — Mick Jones from The Clash and Tony James from Generation X — performed live at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia on April 7. Hear this co-production with WXPN, webcast live on NPR Music.

Her personal and musical life enhanced by motherhood, the New York-based singer-songwriter was the perfect artist to cap off a celebration of the 100th observance of the holiday, broadcast at the church where it began.

Despite his high profile and popularity in the industry, the former Jayhawks singer-songwriter has a low-key, almost shy demeanor. The alt-country pioneer performs songs from his first solo CD, Vagabonds, in an interview and performance on WFUV.

Slight-of-hand expert Ricky Jay runs the gambling tables in the HBO series Deadwood. His stage show won an Obie Award. Now, he has compiled a collection of his favorite poker music and a DVD of his tricks.

Big Freedia may not be the earliest pioneer of bounce, the high-energy genre that calls New Orleans home, but she has been its most well-known ambassador.

Plans for a $165 million Clinton presidential center are helping spark a construction boom and downtown revitalization in Little Rock, Ark. They've also stirred old partisan sentiments, spurring one group to plan a "Counter Clinton" library. NPR's Greg Allen reports.

Director Kelly Reichardt's new film, Wendy And Lucy, has been described as the "best art-house girl-and-dog story you're ever going to see." Reichardt joins Fresh Air to discuss her work.

Watch our blog for video of President Carter, babysitter, and for a Ron Paul video festival.

Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons talks about his latest role as the title character in a film adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- a play some consider to be anti-Semitic for its portrayal of the vengeful Jewish moneylender Shylock.

In February 1860, Abraham Lincoln, an unknown lawyer from the West with no formal education, delivered a speech before a New York audience that transformed him into a serious presidential contender. A new book re-examines the Cooper Union speech credited with propelling Lincoln to the White House. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with scholar Harold Holzer about his new book, Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President.

Mira Nair's films Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay! look at class conflicts. Now she takes on Victorian England in Vanity Fair. Nair speaks with NPR's Renee Montagne.

The three members of alt-country group Tres Chicas — Tonya Lamm, Caitlin Cary and Lynne Blakey — talk about their name, their music and their debut CD, Sweetwater. NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller, speaking publicly for the first time since the start of the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, says his office is closing and he is resigning.

Luisa Miller was named simply, after its main character, but it was inspired by a play with a title that pretty much sums up Verdi's opera: Intrigue and Love. The production is from the Bavarian State Opera.

The Mansfield News Journal reports that three sisters all gave birth on the same day within 4.5 hours of each other — with the help of the same doctor. The odds of this happening: 1 in 50 million.

Not all South Carolina restaurants are reopening at full capacity, despite getting the green light from Governor Henry McMaster.