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The storm, packing winds up to 126 mph, hit hardest in Germany and in the Netherlands but also affected France and Belgium.

Artists can find inspiration in the unlikeliest places. Musician Anne Watts, of the band Boister, has been influenced by the time she spent volunteering in a mental institution — and by the odd things kids say.

The Dixie Hummingbirds came together in the '20s to sing gospel music. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band rose in the '70s to dance in the Crescent City streets. At the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, they sing, praise, and parade together.

The National's Bryce Dessner composed all the music for this album.

Members of Pallbearer and Sabbath Assembly help Dallas metal band reap the agricultural apocalypse in a vivid 17-minute epic.

Recorded with Liz Harris' voice, a piano and not much else, Ruins achieves striking intimacy, its emotional heft commanding attention throughout.

The first single from Nightmare Logic possesses a certain monolithic quality Lemmy would admire: a massive rawness and heavy hopelessness that thrashes with punk immediacy and metal intricacy.

The exuberant young singer's acrobatic voice becomes another instrument in a hybrid Cuban-Crescent City parade.

Like the band's best work, Penny Sparkle stands out for its bittersweet melodies and the haunting voice of Kazu Makino, but the key to the album's success is its restraint.

Many of the songs on this, the soul singer's third album, are speedy, more purposeful and insistent than the songs for which Bilal is known, like 2001's steamy "Soul Sista" and "Reminisce." But the tiny details make Airtight's Revenge surprising. Hear the album in its entirety until its release on Sept. 14.

The Twin Cities band's roiling, hands-on electronic music hews between dance fare that could catalyze a club and slower new-wave sounds.

Cancer claims fashion designer Liz Claiborne at 78. She founded what was for years the largest women's apparel company in the United States, designing of sleek, affordable clothes for the professional woman.

Scott Simon remarks on how details during times of war, from personal stories, capture the true devastation of it.

How to unload 50,000 pounds of potatoes in 20 minutes, and other secrets from the potato chip factory.

See the link between family income and job choice for nurses, teachers, police officers and dozens of others.

Strand Magazine announced that its latest issue will include a poem by the author written around 1955 that shows his "softer, sensitive side."

Robert Siegel talks with Debbie Elliott as polls close in Florida.

Mongolia is undergoing a dramatic transformation from a pastoral society to one whose economy is based on mining, especially copper and coal. With the change has come opportunity — and loss.

In one of the most segregated U.S. regions — New York's suburbs — voters of color are waging an unprecedented redistricting fight with an emerging tool for protecting voting rights at the local level.