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David Bowie might just be rock's most famous chameleon. He's been a folk singer, a soul singer, a rock star and a pop icon — and now he's the subject of a new biography.

Brazilians say carnival is about dropping your inhibitions and letting your emotions out. One large, extended family prepares an annual exercise that acts as a release valve for the pressures of life.

Nick Mamatas' new Love Is the Law is a mashup of black magic, paranoia, politics and teenage alienation.

Grammy award winner Lila Downs is known to sing about love, loss, and her tricultural identity. But her latest album is her most personal yet.

This new Apple TV+ miniseries about Word War II bomber pilots captures one thrilling airborne mission after another — but also finds drama in briefing rooms, barracks and German POW camps.

Dr. Ronald Canterbury has been researching bird populations for more than 30 years. He says some species are down as much as 60% to 70% in recent years.

Seattle has one of the country's few working movie theater organs. Jim Riggs plays the theater's Wurlitzer organ while silent movies are screened. Recently he performed during a screening of 1927's Wings, the only silent film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

“We ended up with 126 tornado warnings” in Florida, Matthew Elliott, the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center, told NPR.

Since its inception in 1954, the event has survived rainstorms, genre wars and a few near-riots. Producer George Wein says it survives for the same reason jazz does — the musicians love to perform.

A stronger and bigger Hurricane Erin pelted parts of the Caribbean and was forecast to create dangerous surf and rip currents along the U.S. East Coast this week.