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At 65, Dr. John is best known for rhythm and blues and his voodoo charms. In a new album, Mercernary, he's taking Johnny Mercer's pop standards and mixing in his own brand of New Orleans funk.

Sixty years ago, the German army tried to push the Allies back one last time, as World War II neared its end in Europe. Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite was with Gen. George Patton's 3rd Army that Christmas. Cronkite reflects on the Battle of the Bulge, which remains the largest pitched battle in U.S. history.

The Team America Rocketry Challenge is a contest organized by the aerospace industry to lure young people -- especially girls -- to a career in space science. Nearly 10,000 students entered this year's challenge. We profile the one all-girl team that made the finals.

For many along the Gulf Coast, the holiday season brought a welcome chance to see family. But it didn't stop efforts to rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Between events, the Bordelon family has been stripping out and cleaning up their two-story home in their St. Bernard neighborhood.

A huge rockslide has closed a main road leading into Yosemite National Park. Now the town of Mariposa, Calif., a place that bills itself as the gateway to Yosemite, is facing a tough summer and an uncertain future.

We hear one of the last pieces performed by mezzo soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson — a series of Pablo Neruda's love sonnets set to music by her husband, composer Peter Lieberson. Hunt Lieberson died earlier this week. She was 52.

Years of drought have drastically lowered the level of water in Lake Powell. That worries Western cities downstream that use the water, but it also presents an upside: Some of Glen Canyon's natural treasures were exposed for the first time in decades.

Farai Chideya talks with Marilyn Nelson, poet laureate of Connecticut and author an emotional narrative poem on the death of Emmett Till. Nelson explains why she wrote the poem for young adults, and how it challenges readers to speak out against modern-day injustices.

For decades, visitors to the turn-of-the-century Maymont House in Richmond, Va., have soaked up the excesses of the Gilded Age. Now, Maymont's newly renovated basement provides a different glimpse of life then -- that of the mostly African-American domestic workers.

Joseph Arthur is a versatile and prolific rocker. In addition to playing music, his humanitarian efforts have helped bring art, music and more to children in Northern Uganda refugee camps. For all his sterling credentials, Arthur remains easygoing and casual in this session on WFUV.