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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with comedian Josh Gondelman about incorporating the coronavirus pandemic into sets as comedy clubs open up.

For the second straight year, the communal arts festival isn't happening because of the pandemic. But the community that hosts the pilgrimage doesn't mind.

Poet Natalie Diaz — author of Postcolonial Love Poem, which was a finalist for the National Book Award — tells NPR's Michel Martin about some of the listener-submitted poems that caught her eye.

People in Saranac Lake, NY have been building massive palaces out of ice since 1898. It's a folk art that requires a lot of caution and tolerance for bitter cold.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks nine-year-old Cooper Nelson of Loveland, Colo., about how he raised money for local food banks by starting an online subscription news site.

As Cicely Tyson's memorial takes place in her home of Harlem, New York, NPR speaks with Black women whose lives were changed by Tyson's work and symbolic power.

Fresh from her burst into the literary stratosphere after her appearance at President Biden's inauguration, poet Amanda Gorman will recite a new poem during the Super Bowl LV pre-show next Sunday.

Jeff Sedlik's Miles Davis portrait shows up all over the Internet, rarely with his permission, and there's not much he can do to protect himself. Enter the CASE Act, which sounds dull ... but isn't.

Pandemic restrictions are in full swing in Paris, but Fashion Week has pressed on with a mix of digital presentations and real-life shows for this year's fall and winter womenswear collections.

The 22-year-old composed a poem, "The Hill We Climb," that acknowledges the recent insurrection attempt, but turns resolutely toward hope. "The new dawn blooms," she writes.