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In honor of the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth, his music is being performed around the globe. A controversial new production of an unfinished opera Mozart wrote when he was 23, Zaide, has just opened in New York.

A "state of the blogosphere" report from Technorati founder Dave Sifry says 175,000 new blogs are created each day. Sifry finds that about 55 percent continue blogging on a regular basis. The blogosphere is doubling in size every five to seven months.

The debut album of Congolese band Konoko No. 1 caught the attention of U.S. audiences. Their rhythms were played on instruments cobbled together from discarded car parts. Now the band joins with other Congolese artists on a new album called Congotronics 2.

A young scientist achieves startling results. A colleague is suspicious. Allegra Goodman's novel Intuition, explores tense relations between researchers in a cancer lab, and the professional passions driving them.

Agraria, a new restaurant in the posh Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., is owned and operated by the North Dakota Farmers' Union. Every ingredient in every dish comes from American family farmers.

There are some books that are so good that you just can't get on with your life until you've turned the last page. Nancy Pearl offers books that make it tempting to call in sick just to be able to read to the end without stopping.

One military spokesman describes the suicides of three Arab men at the U.S. Navy's Guantanamo Bay detention center as "an act of asymmetric warfare," not "desperation." Two Saudi detainees and one from Yemen -- all held for years without charges -- were found hanged in separate cells Saturday.

In downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, a bustling bazaar sells the rare ingredients used in the millennial art of natural vegetable dyeing. Nathan Santamaria travels through the catacomb-like spaces of the market and all of its chaos to the place where the dyes are sold.

As sectarian killings surge in Iraq, the Baghdad morgue has also become a deadly place. Sunni families risk being killed when they go to retrieve the bodies of loved ones from the Shiite-run facility. The morgue is now off-limits to journalists.

The real estate market in the "new" New Orleans is offering some families the opportunity to buy their dream house. They're moving into neighborhoods that they never thought they could afford.