© 2026 WFAE

Mailing Address:
WFAE 90.7
P.O. Box 896890
Charlotte, NC 28289-6890
Tax ID: 56-1803808
90.7 Charlotte 93.7 Southern Pines 90.3 Hickory 106.1 Laurinburg
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Search results for

  • Until this point, Black Milk's production was widely considered to be his greatest talent. And for good reason, the Detroit based artist cites fellow motor city native, the late great James Yancey (aka J Dilla), as one of his biggest role models.
  • The companies warned that "untrustworthy people" could use their robots to harm others or infringe on civil liberties, and they pledged to make sure their customers didn't weaponize the products.
  • The band's fourth album is the product of a cross-country sojourn by singer Erika Wennerstrom.
  • Springsteen's return to pop production, and the E Street Band, on his 2007 album Magic left the singer wanting more. Immediately after the disc's completion, he decided to keep writing and recording. In the first week after Magic, he wrote several songs that form the beginning of Working on a Dream, streaming now in its entirety on NPR Music.
  • In La Cenerentola, Rossini's take on the classic story of Cinderella, the title character overcomes her dysfunctional family with an admirable combination of courage and tolerance. Joyce DiDonato stars in the tile role in a production from Houston Grand Opera.
  • The home appliance brand Cosori received more than 200 reports of air fryers overheating, burning or melting — several of which led to minor burn injuries and property damage.
  • A listeria outbreak has led to 16 infections and one death across six states, with New York having the most cases. The CDC has not yet pinpointed specific products that could be causing the outbreak.
  • Tenor Placido Domingo takes on the 126th role of his legendary career, as Bajazet in Handel's Tamerlano. The Washington National Opera's production also features countertenor David Daniels in the title role.
  • Verdi's enigmatic yet profoundly beautiful opera takes just about every moral dilemma imaginable and gives them all recognizable, human faces, the sort of faces one sees every day — sometimes, even in the mirror. Tenor Jonas Kaufmann stars as the troubled title character in a production from London's Covent Garden.
  • “Sensible pads” are designed as low-cost products to use at home for people in underserved areas, without having to test it in a lab.
  • Mozart's masterpiece Cosi fan tutte is billed as a comedy, but it often leaves romantically inclined listeners feeling just a little bit queasy. It comes to us from the Salzburg Festival, in a production featuring the Vienna Philharmonic.
  • Rossini's take on Cinderella is one of his most comic operas, but it has serious moments. Kate Aldrich sings Cinderella, and Lawrence Brownlee is the prince in a production from the Rossini opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy.
  • In this rarely revived opera, Rossini reuses many of his own tunes, but modern audiences have embraced it. This production, from Rossini's hometown, places the main character in a mental ward, where he is tormented with visions of the wife he sentenced to death.
  • Tenor Placido Domingo takes on the 126th role of his legendary career, as Bajazet in Handel's Tamerlano. The Washington National Opera's production also features countertenor David Daniels in the title role.
  • Arrigo Boito retells the story of the original, Faustian bargain — from the devil's point of view — in the colorful drama Mefistofele. The production is from Belgium's Royal Opera of Wallonie.
  • La Cenerentola is Rossini's uproarious yet touching version of the familiar Cinderella story — minus the magic pumpkin and the glass slipper, but with an added dose of human foibles. Vivica Genaux stars in a production from the Grand Theatre of Geneva.
  • Strauss' lurid yet sumptuous one-act opera tells the story of Elektra and her decidedly dysfunctional family — her murdered father Agamemnon, her frantic sister Chrysothemis and their homicidal mother, Klytaemnestra. The production is from the Washington National Opera.
  • Gross domestic product surged from July to September as Americans opened their wallets big time, but there are doubts about how long this blistering pace of growth can last.
  • Accelerator pedals on the new Cybertrucks can get stuck, a potentially dangerous production flaw. The reason why they're so sticky is soap.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act turns two today. The 10-year program aims to increase domestic energy production with an emphasis on clean technologies. North Carolina has received over 350 million-dollars to strengthen the state’s energy infrastructure.
482 of 2,499