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The advice for keeping the virus at bay in wealthy countries won't necessarily work in low-income countries and in poor communities. So what might help?

NPR's Shannon Bond talks with Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, known as "the Hendrix of the Sahara," about his new album.

Dust off those dancing shoes! Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters will be taking the stage on Friday, September 1st at Parc Sans Souci. The entire community is invited to enjoy free, live music at DTA! in Downtown Lafayette.The music kicks off at 6:00PM and concludes at 9:00PM. Please leave ice chests at home to help keep DTA! free to the public – grab a drink from the beverage tent and a bite to eat from food vendors and downtown restaurants. Most importantly, don’t forget to support local small businesses while downtown!For more information, visit the Downtown Lafayette Unlimited website.

Downtown Lafayette Unlimited and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette are partnering together for the first of its kind Ragin’ Cajuns ® Downtown Alive!– with music from The Rouge Krewe!Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy live music at DTA! in Downtown Lafayette on Friday August 25th! Music starts at 6:15 pm and concludes at 8:15 pm. Please leave your ice chests at home to help keep DTA! free to the public, your drink is your ticket! – grab a bite to eat from food vendors and downtown restaurants. Don’t forget to support local small businesses while you’re downtown!For more information about this event and future DTA! performances, visit https://downtownlafayette.org/downtown-alive/.

Pastry chef Aggie Chin talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about desserts for your New Year's Eve party. This week, it's citrus pavlova cake.

Wednesday's MEDICINE BALL CARAVAN on KRVS (11am-1pm CST on 88.7FM or krvs.org) goes southern fried with an encore live in-studio with Lance Dubroc. Also: classic Swamp Pop w/ The Uniques, Boogie Kings, Rod Bernard, John Fred & the Playboys, etc. Plus: Lulu & the Broadsides, North Mississippi All Stars, Tony Joe White, Samantha Fish and more.

TWO SHOWS! Friday, November 4, 2022 | 7PM Sunday, November 6, 2022 | 3PMUL's Angelle HallA turning point in opera. Join us for a presentation of Giacomo Puccini’s famous comic opera, Gianni Schicchi, masterfully performed by Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and the University of Louisiana Opera Department. Puccini was among many composers of the 19th century who developed new ways to entertain and connect with wider audiences, by creating works that utilized operatic romanticism, on-stage antics, and a newly developed lyrical style of the time, known as bell canto. The work of Puccini and others from this period influenced generations of musicians and composers who followed.

background:white">Bill Zeeble has been a full-time reporter at Dallas NPR station KERA since 1992, covering everything from medicine to the Mavericks and education to environmental issues. He’s won numerous awards over the years, with top honors from the Dallas Press Club, Texas Medical Association, the Dallas and Texas Bar Associations, the American Diabetes Association and a national health reporting grant from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Zeeble was born in Philadelphia, Pa. and grew up in the nearby suburb of Cherry Hill, NJ, where he became an accomplished timpanist and drummer. Heading to college near Chicago on a scholarship, he fell in love with public radio, working at the college classical/NPR station, and he has pursued public radio ever since.

The Dow Jones benchmark started Monday's session above 16,459 and fell more than 1,000 points before closing at 15,871. The index lost about 3.6 percent of its value.

If you’re one of those people who think there can only be one “song of the summer,” and that the Hot 100 provides a clear-cut metric for determining a winner, then this year’s race is a statistical dead heat.