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Bay Area singer Parris Lane is giving audiences a blend of Cotton Club and Rat Pack eras, along with New Orleans sounds in her live show “Parris Lane - Jazz Renaissance.”

Brady Corbet's monumental drama, The Brutalist, chronicles the journey of a Jewish architect who comes to the U.S. in 1947 and creates a troubled and troubling masterpiece.

The incoming Trump administration may try to pull back the consumer tax credit for electric vehicle purchases, worth up to $7,500 in up-front discounts. Shoppers are wondering if they should act fast.

Former foster youth earn degrees at a lower rate compared with the general population. A program in Virginia is trying to change that.

In this episode, we meet an East Bay chef who goes beyond shopping at the farmer’s market. We hear how he works to connect food, urban diners and nature. Then, we’ll go back in time to visit San Francisco’s oldest gay bar before it closed its doors. And, we hear how piano playing can create a future for those in prison.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Mohammed al-Refaai, who we first met nine years ago when he moved to Ohio from Syria.

"Hospital at home" allowed Medicare and Medicaid to pay for intense treatment of patients in their homes. It's set to expire on Dec. 31 unless Congress acts. A five-year extension is on the table.

NPR's Books We Love is our big year-end compilation shouted out by staff and critics. Today, we look at some of the submissions of sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction.

A report warns that a major increase in U.S. natural gas exports may raise energy costs and worsen environmental impacts. That's at odds with the expected policy of the incoming Trump administration.

The cost of coffee has hovered near record highs on the futures market after droughts in top-producing Brazil and Vietnam. Supermarket brands like Nescafé and Folgers have raised their prices.

The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to pay out $116 million dollars to settle dozens of sexual abuse lawsuits brought by people formerly incarcerated at the Dublin Federal Correctional Institute.

Carol Zimmerman, news editor at the National Catholic Reporter, went to see the purported skull of St. Thomas Aquinas. She tells NPR's Ailsa Chang about its importance to Catholics and her experience.