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  • The 2018 Slingshot artist wowed new fans at SXSW for her super-charged vocal performances, and she matches that intensity with a rendition of "Lottery" for Jimmy Fallon.
  • The opening of an art exhibit at Arlington National Cemetery showing more than 1,300 portraits of U.S. military personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq brings together artists and families of the dead.
  • While many or the nation's major orchestras continue to struggle financially, smaller community and regional orchestras are flourishing. Jeff Lunden profiles southern New Jersey's Bay-Atlantic Symphony.
  • NPR's Noah Adams continues his series on low-wage workers. On a visit to Pennsylvania, he found Mexican immigrants at work harvesting mushrooms.
  • The National Museum of Health and Medicine in D.C. is not for the squeamish. Founded in 1862, the museum displays everything from a large human hairball to skull fragments from Abraham Lincoln.
  • Chappy Hardy, a.k.a. the Man from Hunger, delivers another report from the road in his search for high-quality, low-cost Southern eats. In this installment: Mama Lou's in Robertsdale, Ala.
  • Carteret County has three early voting locations for the May 17th primary, one in Beaufort, one in Newport, and one in Cedar Point.
  • There is a very rare celestial event occurring this month that can be viewed from Eastern North Carolina, something that hasn’t been visible in 18 years.
  • The story of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the tens of thousands of children refugees from the Sudanese civil war, is the basis for Dave Eggers' new novel, What Is the What. Eggers and Deng talk about their collaboration and the traumas the "Lost Boys" endured.
  • In a new anthology of baseball essays, sportswriter Stefan Fatsis celebrates his beloved, 31-year-old baseball glove. He talks to Robert Siegel about how he set out to find out about his mitt's history and what he learned along the way.
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