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"I woke up the next day and my voice went from way up here" - he pitches his voice high - "to how it is right now," he tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz.

In 2004, singer-songwriter Regina Spektor was a staple of the so-called anti-folk scene when she sat down for one of her first public-radio interviews with the now-defunct WNYC program The Next Big Thing .

You've probably know by now that Google is paying homage to Robert Moog today with a Doodle that's a virtual version of the iconic Moog Synthesizer.

Today at All Things Considered , we continue a project we're calling NewsPoet. Each month, we bring in a poet to spend time in the newsroom - and at the end of the day, to compose a poem reflecting on the day's stories.

Two years after he seemed to go off the TMI deep end with comments he made about ex-girlfriends Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Aniston, the singer reveals he now regrets his remarks.

In this week's podcast of weekends on All Things Considered , inside the JPMorgan debacle.

The end of Round 8 of our Three-Minute Fiction contest has finally arrived. With help from our readers at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, New York University, the University of Oregon and the University of Texas, at Austin, we've read through more than 6,000 stories.

Sunday is the first day of the NATO summit in Chicago. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz talks with the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Ivo Daalder about the Alliance's future, and with Vijay Prashad, a professor of international studies at Trinity College, who argues NATO is bad for the world.

The Weekends on All Things Considered series Movies I've Seen A Million Times features filmmakers, actors, writers and directors talking about the movies that they never get tired of watching.

The flurry of activity continues at the New Hampshire statehouse. NHPR's Josh Rogers tells All Things Considered host Brady Carlson about the latest, including a Senate vote on a constitutional amendment to ban personal income taxes, a proposal to track prescription drugs and several House bills related to abortion.

The state Legislature recently laid out two competing bills designed to rein in health care costs in Massachusetts, and that means a whole new round of health care jargon.

In this week's podcast of weekends on All Things Considered , the politics of gay marriage, and how TV may be changing public attitudes about it.

More than 6,000 original stories were submitted to this round of Three-Minute Fiction and we're on the quest to select just one winner.

I stopped in my tracks earlier this spring when I heard a familiar voice on WCQS advocating for the public radio fund drive.

A couple weeks ago, weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz sent an email to Ben Zimmer, a language columnist at the Boston Globe .

Astronomer Philip Plait tells host weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz the Supermoon you've been hearing all about actually isn't that super.

Weekends on All Things Considered series, Movies I've Seen A Million Times features filmmakers, actors, writers and directors talking about the movies that they never get tired of watching.

Blood is our life support and with just a small drop, a large window can be opened into how our body is working... and not working.

Toby Groves, who pleaded guilty in federal court in 2008 to charges that he and his Groves Funding Corp.

In this week's podcast of weekends on All Things Considered , the student debt crisis, and the life and death of facts.