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Librarian Nancy Pearl loves reading about other people's lives. And while an unappreciative therapist might call that a predilection toward snooping, it won't stop her from gravitating to the memoir section of the bookstore. Here, for your own vicarious pleasure, are some of her favorites.

There are certain bars of music that put people in a specific headspace - and many of them come from our favorite films, where composer John Williams matched his iconic themes with magic movie moments.

Five years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans isn't the city it used to be. The Census Bureau estimates there are 100,000 fewer people living there than before the storm. But many in New Orleans say things may actually be better -- from its sense of community to a greater appreciation of the city's food and music.

Smith's seven-decade stage and screen career included many beloved roles, from "Harry Potter" Professor Minerva McGonagall, to Dowager Countess Violet Crawley in "Downton Abbey."

With two historically unpopular major party presidential nominees, the idea of write-in votes keeps popping up. Exactly how that works is a bit complicated.

NPR's Arun Rath speaks with correspondent Debbie Elliott in Selma as thousands gather to reenact the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Like many people, Bill Maxey has been seeing more wildlife during the shutdown.“Long retired” from the Upjohn Company, Maxey lives near Comstock Creek…

Announcements from Shell and BP will further hit Russia's tanking economy — and batter its image as a go-to place for oil and gas investments.

How to begin a musical about a barber who slashes his customers' throats and a baker who grinds up their corpses to fill her meat pies? If you're director Tim Burton, you start by raining blood from the skies.

Psychologists seem to have a fancy word for every conceivable fear known to man or woman. Nyctophobia, fear of darkness. Phagophobia, fear of swallowing. Agyrophobia, fear of crossing the street. Blennophobia, morbid fear of slime. And the phobia de jour, triskaidekaphobia. Commentator Paul Hoffman explains.