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Many people come to StoryCorps to honor someone they love. For Libby Stroik, that person was her grandfather, Harry Golomski, who helped her find joy and happiness in the little things.

Oil sits under a pristine swath of the rainforest. Ecuador promised to leave the forest untouched — if the rest of the world would pay up.

Live on YouTube, Bob Boilen and Rita Houston will watch their favorites entries to the 2020 Contest and discuss what made them stand out from the thousands we saw this year.

The CodeTalkers don't look like your everyday jam band. But don't let the dark suits they wear in concert fool you. The Atlanta-based trio doesn't take itself too seriously, despite the formal attire.

Larry June is the indie-rap hustle personified. Though the Bay Area emcee has a prodigious output, his (home) concert reflects the comfortable, laid-back tone of his records.

Whenever he took the stage, audiences were guaranteed a musical spectacle. Half mystic, half visionary, the pianist and bandleader charted a relentlessly adventurous course through the jazz tradition.

A massive waterspout off the coast of Destin, Fla., Tuesday captured the attention of many. Several conditions are necessary to create one of these tornado-like phenomena.

Tiersen, known for his work on the film Amélie, understands how to make music sound cinematic. On his eighth studio album, visuals are bound to pop into listeners' heads throughout.

Not the "Hey Joe" you know, but Liz Green's voice will make this song unforgettable.

A few lost nights out rekindled the Australian foursome's flame for acid house, which has resulted in an album bearing clear evidence of that style's rallying call to let your hair down.

Deerhoof has always toyed with the whimsical, but its 12th album feels like its most playful work yet. More relaxed than its predecessors, it retains the long-running band's capacity to thrill.

Listen to a track from Peter Bjorn & John, 'I Wish I Was A Spy,' off the new volume from the hit children's series Yo Gabba Gabba!

The singer-songwriter has experienced ups and downs in the four years since her last album, including breaking her thyroid and getting married.

How could someone so prominent commit crimes on a staggering scale and still host parties to which celebrities would flock? Jeffrey Epstein may have believed fame can conceal almost anything.

Coronavirus cases in Spain are on the rise again. But hospitalizations are down compared with the peak of the pandemic, and patients are younger and have milder symptoms.

Owls in the Pacific Northwest have been displaying more territorial and sometimes aggressive behavior — a wildlife biologist speculates why this is happening.

Mozart's The Magic Flute is a fanciful tale of troubled lovers, good battling evil and a lesson or two about which is which.

Though Handel became a superstar in London with a string of deadly serious operas, he revealed his lighter side in the delightfully quirky comedy Partenope — an opera featuring a ditzy queen and a cross-dressing duellist.

The poet, rapper and singer-songwriter joins us from Zambia for a visually stunning quarantine concert, part of Tiny Desk's Black History Month celebration.

Colombian artist Fernando Botero has died at the age of 91. "I don't paint fat women," he once told Spain's El Mundo newspaper, "I am interested in volume, the sensuality of the form."