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From talking about history to volunteering in your community, here's how to get your kids thinking about what it means to be a good citizen.

Bruce Hornsby performs songs that span a 20-year career, in a live appearance at NPR. The Grammy Award-winning songwriter also talks about his collaborations with artists of almost every musical genre.

They're an odd couple. Angel-voiced Scot Isobel Campbell and gravelly grunge rocker Mark Lanegan of Seattle combine their talents on the CD Ballad of the Broken Seas. Campbell tells Liane Hansen about life after Belle and Sebastian.

Thirty years ago in Paris, a publicity stunt for a wine shop started a revolution for the Napa Valley. In 1976, a blind tasting pitted the best wines from France against wines from California -- and the Californian wines won.

The crew of a U.S. Navy submarine that crashed into an undersea mountain in the Pacific was relying on a chart that did not indicate the mountain was there, according to an investigative report.

Philosopher-chef Jose Andres has been on a mission to ignite America's passion for the flavors of his native Spain. To help that process along, Andres has written a cookbook, Tapas: A Taste of Spain in America.

President Bush accepts his party's re-election nomination Thursday, the last night of the Republican Convention. In his acceptance speech, the president underscored his efforts to make the country secure in the years following the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

John Williams' score was, true to form, unforgettable — as Jeff Goldblum remembers in an interview with NPR.

A federal judge unsealed the warrant and property receipt materials after the Justice Department requested their release.

Voting concludes Tuesday in the Alaska primary elections, including notable races for governor, Senate and a special election for the House seat to fill the remainder of late Rep. Don Young's term.