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  • The fashion industry is sometimes criticized for unrealistic portrayals of young women. But if you're a woman older than 60, there are almost no portrayals, realistic or otherwise. Now a fashion blog called Advanced Style has made stars of some of these older fashionistas, including a 93-year-old who says the spotlight makes her feel like she's "part of the world."
  • Bosco Ntaganda showed up unexpectedly at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali. While officials puzzle out the details of transporting him to his new detention cell in The Hague, others are wondering if his former cohorts — still pillaging Eastern Congo — might use the arrest to broker their own impunity.
  • SXSW is a festival that you can curate to your own taste: quick hits, big names, unknowns, or some of everything. But no matter what kind of festival you have, there will be moments when a band just cuts through the noise. Here are a handful of the most transporting moments from this year's festival.
  • A tiny tax hike between the World Wars started a musical revolution. Hear a community band from Wisconsin play the Iowa Band Law March, which celebrates municipal support of music.
  • If Pyongyang is the source of a cyberattack against South Korea's computer networks, it wouldn't be the first time.
  • A poll finds the central elements of the federal health law remain popular across partly lines. But the law as a whole is still polarizing and confusing to many Americans, the results suggest.
  • Interview with Nathan Gabriel about his radio drama, "Kaleidoscope."Performance of "Kaleidoscope"Community calendarMusic
  • The singer-songwriter and fiddler plays songs from her newest album at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, W.Va. Rodriguez is backed by the Mountain Stage band and her friend Lucas Jacobs.
  • The diverse reggae supergroup plays a few explosive songs from its new album, This Generation, and discusses how an old grocery truck became the centerpiece of its sound.
  • A government shutdown has been averted, with the house passing a spending bill that keeps things open through the end of September.
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