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Singer, songwriter and guitarist Charlie Sexton burst out of Texas in 1985 with the hit, "Beat's so Lonely." He spent the next two decades working with veteran musicians such as the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards and Ron Wood and Bob Dylan. Sexton's latest CD is titled "Cruel and Gentle Things."

How do we perceive time? How do we form and retrieve memories? Alain de Botton, author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, tells Linda Wertheimer how the French novelist might answer such philosophical questions.

The Academic Film Archive is working with the Library of Congress to make a worldwide database of all the old educational movies it can find. And in St. Louis, in an effort to preserve these classic 16-mm movies, a group is holding monthly screenings of films like The Living Soil, which was produced by Shell Oil Company in the 1960s to extol the virtues of pesticides. Matt Sepic of member station KWMU reports.

Doctors are noting an increase in cases of kids presenting with long COVID — a huge constellation of symptoms, many debilitating, that can follow even mild infections.

A Canadian judge granted a temporary injunction to ban protesters from blowing horns in downtown Ottawa for 10 days.

From April 2020 to April 2021, more than 100,000 people died of a drug overdose in the U.S.

The documentary follows three African-American students who get the opportunity to attend an academically rigorous school in Kenya designed to give them a path out of the violence and poverty of inner-city Baltimore.

Classics commentator Elaine Fantham describes what life was like in Alexandria, home to Marc Antony and Cleopatra, among others. Its brief period of glory left a distinctive legacy that is finding new currency with scholars.

After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans theaters were shuttered, jazz clubs went silent and museums and galleries were locked up. The city's artists scattered across the country. They are starting to return but are finding that making art in New Orleans is a different experience.

Two young figure skaters make history for their gravity-defying jumps and record-breaking scores.