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Mark Oliver Everett is the creative force behind the rock band Eels. Since the group's debut album in 1996, Everett has made moody rock music with rough edges and tuneful melodies. That tradition continues on Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire, the band's first album in four years.

Jazmine Sullivan will receive Billboard's Rising Star Award for Women in Music this week, just one of many accolades that the singer has earned in her quick rise to stardom. On her new album, Sullivan shows a different response to heartbreak, one that she says reflects a change in her character.

Congressional Republicans are pledging to confirm no one President Obama appoints to the Supreme Court.

American speedskater Jordan Stolz is setting records as he looks ahead to the 2026 Winter Olympics. He recently became the first man to win three individual gold medals at the world championships.

Temperatures will linger in the triple digits for parts of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana this week, with little relief coming at night.

Handel's operas are only just emerging from obscurity -- like the exiled king in Rodelinda, who fakes his own death and then makes an daring comeback in a maze of intrigue and blackmail.

The apparent unraveling of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's political career is playing like a soap opera in New York. Member station WNYC's Fred Mogul found a lot of people in New York City have dropped everything in favor of watching the real-life political drama unfold in the media.

Cookbook author Dorie Greenspan has an unusual dessert in her repertoire that's perfect for the holidays -- a gateau Basque from southwestern France. The cake is sturdy, easy to transport and can be eaten any time of day. What makes it so intriguing is that it has a clue as to what's baked inside, Greenspan says.

Once a huge hit in Italy, this opera by the nearly forgotten Saverio Mercadante has long languished. But it's full of great music — and ancient Roman intrigues.

Writer and comedian Andy Borowitz read through more than 1,000 different authors before picking the top 50 for his new book, The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to the Onion.