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Perennial Jazz Fest Performers, Preservation Hall Jazz Band perform live in NPR's Studio 4A. New Orleans' tiny Preservation Hall has presented traditional jazz for more than 40 years. The hall is more famous than the musicians who play there, but the Preservation Hall Jazz Band continues to attract music lovers at home and to its concerts around the world.

Thousands of families are have been forced out of their homes to escape hundreds of fires burning throughout the Northwest. But the fires aren't the only problem: It's also the smoke.

“It’s about time” says one salon owner in response to Montana Gov. Steve Bullock announcing Apr. 22 that stay-at-home and business closure orders will…

The Secret Servant is the 10th novel from thriller writer Daniel Silva. Reviewer Alan Cheuse says Silva is perhaps the best home-grown spy novelist among a new generation of writers.

Three Great Falls-area teenagers have been arrested and charged in connection with wildfires last week that destroyed 29 structures, including 11 homes in the Gibson Flats area.

Dan Flavin took an everyday object, found in most stores, homes and offices, and made it extraordinary. The late artist used fluorescent lights of varying lengths and colors and arranged them to create light sculptures. NPR's Susan Stamberg visits an exhibit of his works at the National Gallery of Art.

Administration officials have been encouraging banks to go beyond what they've done so far and reduce the principal on home loans that are "underwater." Bank of America has embraced the idea. But other banks have a different message. David Lowman of JPMorgan Chase told lawmakers Tuesday that principal reductions could cost the industry up to $900 billion.

The songwriter's music is often described as "swamp rock," an appropriate designation given that he writes most of his material in the backwoods outside Jacksonville, Fla. His latest album, Georgia Warhorse, unofficially pays tribute to his grandmother.

The singer of such hits as "Walking on the Sun" and "All Star" died of acute liver failure in his home in Boise, Idaho.

Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who represented the state in Congress for 28 years and served as President Clinton's first treasury secretary, died Tuesday morning, his family said. He was 85. Bentsen, also the Democratic 1988 vice presidential nominee, died at his home in Houston.