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The Tucson, Ariz., band's newest batch of story-songs about people in transition is titled Algiers, named for the New Orleans neighborhood where it was recorded.

Jonny Greenwood began as an underachieving viola student at Oxford. After years of crafting the iconic guitar sound of Radiohead, he's found his way back to the orchestra as a film-score composer.

Both the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra may be headed for a strike.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is stepping up pressure on the Obama administration to draw clear red lines when it comes to Iran's nuclear program. But Israeli and U.S. observers say the issue has become too public.

William McCleery wrote his first draft of Wolf Story during bedtimes and afternoon outings with his 5-year-old son. In 1947, it became a hit children's book, but it's been out of print for more than 20 years.

It has been a week of unexpectedly violent protests across much of the Arab world. It started when protesters attacked and killed four Americans at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. NPR's Leila Fadel tells host Scott Simon the latest on the violence, as protests erupt elsewhere in the region over an anti-Islam film.

The Chicago Teachers Union and city school officials have reportedly reached a "framework" for an agreement that would end a five-day teachers strike. Host Scott Simon speaks with NPR's Claudio Sanchez about the latest developments.

Host Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant of ESPN about the pennant race in baseball and the start of the season for the previously 15-1 Packers.

Host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Ron Elving about where the candidates stand in the 2012 presidential race, including their responses to the volatility in the Middle East.

Young boys idolize him. Old men stop him on the bus to tell him they want to "come back" as him. He's actor Jonathan Goldsmith, and he is "The Most Interesting Man in the World" — or at least he plays him on TV.