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Phil Metres was doing laundry in his sister’s basement when the unexpected happened. “The back of my head was clocked by the door of the laundry machine,” he said. “I had got serious concussion symptoms.” The writer and John Carroll University English professor found himself in need of quiet, still rest in a dark place. Then panic set in. “I thought… about all the things that I had taken for granted, how much I love to read and how much calm it brings me, how much refuge I find in it,” he said.

A few weeks ago we saw the weekend of the rock opera . It just so happens this weekend ushers in the weekend of the barbecue.

Black women have often had to fight battles on two fronts dealing both with racism and sexism. In her new play, “At Last: Celebrating the Lives of Black Women,” Cleveland Arts Prize-winning writer Dr.

The United Auto Workers and automakers resumed negotiations this weekend. But UAW president Shawn Fain described progress as "slow."

Above: The Kronos Quartet performs "Alap" from Ram Narayan's Raga Mishra Bhairavi. Some people follow style, other people create it. In the world of…

As performers, David Finckel and Wu Han have never been content to rest on their laurels. Yes, if you look at the Emerson String Quartet website, (Mr.…

Natural disasters often leave thousands of people homeless. How to house these people is a problem yet to be convincingly solved. But that hasn't stopped some architects from trying.

The Romeros, the "Royal Family of the Guitar," have collectively and individually recorded much of the Spanish guitar literature, but they have also…

NPR's Leila Fadel and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz play a word game with special guest, Ted Allen, host of Chopped and member of the original Queer Eye cast.

NPR's Leila Fadel and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz play a word game with KERA listener Adam Boyette of Fort Worth, Texas.