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Soak up some holiday vibes with this video of a bear having an afternoon in Altadena, Calif.

Among the month's best albums, you'll find veterans of varying ages making some of the best music of their careers, but also a striking debut by a promising R&B singer.

This year, NPR presents an encore performance of Paul Winter's 2011 Winter Solstice Celebration, held at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Upper Manhattan.

New York City officials are getting ready to do wide scale coronavirus testing once the tests become available. In the coming weeks, a test and trace…

This year, there are only three entries in the Academy Awards' best song category. It's only the second time in Oscar history that just three songs were nominated. Murray Horwitz, director of the American Film Institute's Silver Theater, talks about this year's nominees.

The U.S. Justice Department has subpoenaed two reporters to find out how they got grand jury testimony surrounding the BALCO laboratories performance enhancing drug investigation. Michele Norris talks with NPR's David Folkenflik.

Beethoven's First Symphony, dedicated to Baron Gottfried Van Swieten, came at age 29. Fittingly, it was the dawn of a new century. It appeared late in what scholars define as the first period of Beethoven's career.

The highway bill signed by President Bush Wednesday is nearly $30 billion richer than what Bush proposed -- and it tops the figure he said he'd veto. The president has said he expects to cut the federal budget deficit in half by 2009, warning that Congress must control spending.

Offered up with confidence and honesty, k.d. lang's deeply personal narratives invite listeners into an intimate world. Her glorious voice fuses country, jazz, and even Brazilian rhythms, and in a session on World Cafe, she plays songs from her new album, Watershed.

On Alt.Latino, the band spins music and discusses mixing electronic beats with Afro-Peruvian folk.