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  • Emerging out of the sound of spring peepers, Neko Case stepped onto the 9:30 Club stage set in something out of a nature cartoon. Behind them videos of cyclones and airplanes were projected on a screen. But the attention was clearly on Case, her stunning voice, as well as her solid backing band. Okkervil River's Will Sheff opened.
  • One of the British jazz scene's rising stars performs a quarantine concert on the River Thames.
  • A distinctive mix of rock, funk and world beats put Talking Heads in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Who else could get people to dance to the dark "Psycho Killer" and the gospel "Take Me to the River"? NPR's Bob Edwards and band leader David Byrne look back at the band and the music. Hear an extended interview and songs from a new box set.
  • Okkervil River takes on a daunting challenge in a new song making the rounds as an MP3 download: It looks at the impact of a horrific event — in this case a presidential assassination — that hasn't actually taken place.
  • Thousands of residents in Sydney suburbs were told to evacuate their homes on Sunday after heavy rains caused floodwaters to rise and rivers to overflow.
  • The nation's first public pools were originally built to get rowdy, scantily clad youths out of rivers and lakes and away from the public eye. They eventually became hotbeds of social change. Historian Jeff Wiltse traces public pools' contentious history in Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America.
  • A viral video from the scene shows a "river of wine" coursing down a hilly street, sluicing over curbs. The wine escaped from two tanks at a distillery up the hill.
  • Becca Martin Brown and Kyle Kellams talk with Grace Andrews about "Once" the musical opening at Arts on Main and the King Opera House.
  • College classes are starting back up, and enrollment is holding strong at institutions across the region.
  • The University of Arkansas’ Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s Greenhouse Outdoor Recreation Program is back for the fall semester. Zoe Buonaiuto, the former associate director, is now overseeing the program. She recently spoke with Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis about her new role and this semester’s GORP cohort.
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