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Willie Nile has earned a great deal of respect in the music business, but never became what you would call a star. It doesn't seem to matter to him. His latest CD pays homage to a nurturing influence. It's called The Streets of New York.

The mystery of the flaws in one of Norman Rockwell's most famous illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post has been solved: The original has been found, hidden in a secret compartment in a family home, while the painting believed to be the original turns out to be a masterful forgery.

StoryCorps, the oral history project, opens a new recording booth in New York, at the site of the World Trade Center. An initial piece of the planned memorial, the booth will provide a way for those who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001, to share their stories.

Edward Favre, the mayor of Bay St. Louis, Miss., says half of the homes in his city have been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. His family's history in the town stretches back nine generations; now he and family members are trying to pick up the pieces.

The powerful singer previews songs from her album, Burn Your Fire for No Witness. Watch her and you'll see calm in her eyes; listen to her and you'll sense torment in her heart.

Leaders of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia say they're planning a referendum to join the Russian Federation.

As many as 20,000 people shed their clothes in the early morning hours in the center of Mexico City this week to pose for a giant naked photograph — all in the name of art.

William Pryor's latest book, Virginia Woolf and the Raverats, takes readers inside the friendship between writer Virginia Woolf and the artists Jacques and Gwen Raverat. Their years of correspondence, many published for the first time, focused on art and mortality. Hear NPR's Linda Wertheimer and Pryor.

Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will campaign together Friday in Unity, N.H.

Playboy magazine isn't allowed in India. But Playboy clubs, complete with bunnies, are in the works.