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Sandra Block, a personal finance columnist for USA Today, discusses ways to prepare an income tax return using a PC, including a number of free Web-based services available on the IRS Web site.

Amazon is crowded with copycat books that appear to have been written by AI — and they're attached to real authors who didn't write them. (Story first aired on Morning Edition on March 13, 2023.)

What does the realignment of the big NCAA conferences tell us about the future of college sports? NPR's Daniel Estrin talks to Daniel Libit, a reporter at Sportico.

It was just over a month ago that hundreds of extremist supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, stormed the capital and ransacked the Congress, Supreme Court and the presidential offices.

TikTok has surged into the e-commerce space, positioning itself as a kind of Amazon for the social media age. Analysts say it might work, but users and sellers are asking: At what price?

Sharon Boorstin accompanied her husband, documentary filmmaker Paul Boorstin, on wildlife shoots in India, the Amazon, and South Africa for National Geographic TV shows. The experience inspired a love for wildlife that continued in her writing for the Los Angeles Times and her volunteer work as a docent at the Los Angeles Zoo. In this virtual safari, Sharon will introduce animals in the order Carnivora—beautiful but fierce predators that include felids such as lions, tigers, and leopards; canids such as wolves and African wild dogs; and ursids from the giant panda to the gigantic Kodiak bear. Like a virtual safari, through slides and videos we will experience these wild animals in their natural habitats, observe their behavior, and learn of the current efforts to prevent their extinction.

Sharon Boorstin is a contributing writer for the Los Angeles Times, specializing in lifestyle, food and travel. In 2019 she won Visit California’s Eureka Award for Best Newspaper Travel Article. In the 1970s and ‘80s Sharon was the Restaurant Critic of the (late) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, and in the ‘90s she edited the annual Gayot Guidebooks for Los Angeles and other cities. She also wrote for magazines including Bon Appetit, Smithsonian and Town & Country Travel. With her husband Paul, she wrote dozens of screenplays for feature films and television including Angel of Death (ABC) starring Jane Seymour. Her memoir/cookbook, “Let Us Eat Cake: Adventures in Food and Friendship” (Harper-Collins 2002), was a selection of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club. Raised in Seattle, Washington, Sharon moved to Los Angeles in 1966 after earning a California Lifetime Teaching credential at U.C. Berkeley. She taught high-school History, English and Social Studies in L.A. for 11 years.

The attack on Colonial Pipeline has focused new attention on a potentially radical proposal to stem the growing threat posed by ransomware: making it illegal for victims to pay their attackers.

Friends of the Buellton Library present their Inaugural Santa Ynez Valley Community Art Showcase with a Wine & Cheese Artist reception.

Featuring local artists from the Santa Ynez Valley:
Susan Belloni, Laura Scandalis Cross, Ginny Speirs & Sherry Uyeda

The art exhibit will be on display the ENTIRE MONTH OF MARCH available for viewing during regular Friends of the Buellton Library hours with a special Wine & Cheese Artist Reception event on Saturday, March 7th from 4:00pm - 6:00pm. The event is Free! Everyone is welcome!

Located in the Friends Room at the Buellton Public Library at 202 Dairyland Rd, Buellton.
The Friends’ Room regular store open hours are: Mon. 10-Noon, Tue. 2-4pm,. Sat. 11-1pm.

All art is for display only. Contact information of the artists will be available.

For questions email: FriendsOfTheBuelltonLibrary202@gmail.com or Visit: FOBLbuellton.org

The Friends of the Buellton Library is a non-profit organization. Our mission is to raise money and public awareness in the community to support the services and programs of the library. Visit the website for more info and additional upcoming events.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Jennifer Tuohy of The Verge about changes to Amazon's smart speakers. Users will no longer be able to opt not to have their voice recordings sent to the cloud.

"Americans went on a shopping spree as soon as lockdown started, and we haven't really stopped," journalist Christopher Mims says. His book, Arriving Today, goes inside the global supply chain.