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Ventura County students interested in computer science took part in a workshop over the weekend to learn how to code to create their own apps.The event…

A reporter for the conservative news site TalonNews resigns. The reporter, who went by the pseudonym Jeff Gannon, drew critical attention at President Bush's Jan. 26 press conference when he referred in question to Democrats "who seem to have divorced themselves from reality" on the issue of retooling Social Security.

Singer-Songwriter Mike Doughty begins the first day of his self-proclaimed 'Small Rock World Tour' by taking caller questions and performing songs from his new album Haughty Melodic at NPR's Washington studios. Doughty is the former frontman for the group Soul Coughing.

The latest hipster fad in Mexico is a word and a state-of-being. Once a derogatory insult, being "naco" is becoming cool. NPR's Eric Niiler visited Mexico City to discover what naco really means.

Gordon's best-selling novels have been celebrated as much for the precision of her language as for her powers of observation; here, she reflects on her mother's life — and her death after suffering with dementia.

When Bob Morris' widowed father decided to start dating again at the age of 80, guess who found himself sorting through the personals? In Assisted Loving, Morris chronicles the search for Dad's new Ms. Right — and his own misadventures in the romantic jungle that is Manhattan's gay ghetto.

Artist Barbara Kruger is known for her images and installations combining terse, often provocative text and images: super enlarged elements of photographs, collaged to address issues of language and meaning.

A novel about a notorious Florida outlaw and a history of Thomas Jefferson's hidden slave family were among the winners at the 59th annual awards.

In Defeat, reporter Jonathan Steele contends that the Bush administration, by failing to balance military strategy with cultural sensitivities, was fighting an unwinnable battle from the day it invaded Iraq.

In 1985, a single bottle of wine purported to be from Thomas Jefferson's own cellar was sold at auction for $156,000. Benjamin Wallace traces the mystery surrounding the bottle in The Billionaire's Vinegar.