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  • A customer walks out of an Exxon station in Bedford, Texas, Thursday. Refinery shutdowns have sent prices up all over the country.
    Hurricane Harvey Sends Gasoline Prices Up
    The historic rain and high winds have caused refineries throughout the Gulf Coast to shut down or reduce production.
  • <em>Brexit: The Musical, </em>written by EU trade lawyer Chris Bryant and directed by Bronagh Lagan, debuted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August in Scotland.
    Who's Got A Plan For Brexit? This Hit Musical Does
    Stressed over British politics, an EU trade lawyer channeled his anxiety into songwriting. The result, Brexit: The Musical, debuted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and might head to London.
  • <em>What Remains of Edith Finch</em> is a time-hopping family tragedy that centers on a spooky old house.
    Reading The Game: What Remains Of Edith Finch
    Our occasional series on storytelling in video games continues with What Remains of Edith Finch, a complex, time-skipping family tragedy that'll leave you with scars — but trust us, it's worth it.
  • Dr. Winston Watkins, an internist at St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston, volunteered to do a shift in the ER to give his colleagues a break.
    In A Houston Emergency Room, It Was A Week Like No Other
    At the only emergency department providing care in downtown Houston, staff stayed in the hospital throughout the week to care for patients. It was an emotional experience.
  • Today, veggie burgers are engineered to be more like meat than could have been conceived in the basement health-food stores of the 1980s or the sanitariums of a century prior.
    The Rise Of Mock Meat: How Its Story Reflects America's Ever-Changing Values
    Summer's coming to an end, and whether for health or ethical reasons, more people are flipping veggie burgers — which have come a long way since the sanitarium-created concoctions of the 19th century.
  • What's Next For Kenya
    Following allegations of fraud by the opposition, Kenya's Supreme Court threw out the results of the recent presidential election and ordered a new vote within 60 days.
  • Nathan Englander is also the author of <em>What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank</em>.
    Nathan Englander Says His New Book Is 'A Turducken Of A Novel'
    Englander describes Dinner at the Center of the Earth as "a political thriller that's wrapped up in a historical novel that's really a love story that ends up being an allegory."
  • A Houston Drag Queen Talks Fundraising
    Regina Thorne-DuBois is a Houston drag queen who held a series of Facebook Live fundraisers for local community health organizations in the wake of Harvey. She joins NPR's Scott Simon.
  • Saturday Sports: The Astros
    NPR's Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant of ESPN and ESPN The Magazine about a couple of blockbuster trades and the role of sports in healing traumatized communities.
  • 'The Big Tree' Still Stands In Texas
    The Big Tree is a 1,000-year-old oak tree at Goose Island State Park near Rockport, Texas. It survived the recent hurricane, and many before it.
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