Soon after 9-11 producer Karen Michel moved from a predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood in Brooklyn to Pleasant Valley, NY. (more)

What 9 people need to make their houses feel like home. (more)

For nearly a thousand years the Hopi people of Arizona have lived on the same three mesas and for all that time they’ve spoken the Hopi language. But now elders and youth alike say the language is dying. (more)

Being a teenager can be really hard. Especially if you’ve flunked out of school. Or your dad has disappeared. (more)

This hour: a Japanese blues singer, an aging opera fan, and homemade recordings of a rural children's choir. (more)

This hour: Identical twins -- separated at birth, separated by belief and joined by matching outfits. (more)

A year ago, a swat team broke down the door of a home in downtown St. Paul and found eight Molotov cocktails inside. (more)

A wildfire swept through Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar, California in November 2008, destroying more homes, and displacing more families, than any California blaze in decades. (more)

An awkward office interaction at a temp gig gets even more awkward. (more)

After a teenager was killed near San Francisco for having a different biological gender from the one she expressed, some local middle-schoolers wanted to know why. What is gender, anyway? (more)

What does an entire city block sound like? (more)

Most Americans have never heard of Go, an ancient board game that has simpler rules than chess but such complex strategy that computers can’t even beat a talented amateur. (more)

To celebrate the launch of our new website, the TCF presents the Chicago Sound Drops - short audio works that conjure the city through sound, story, and imagination. (more)

Bashir was six during the height of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when his family was forced to flee his stone home in old Palestine and live as refugees in the West Bank town of Ramallah. (more)

Most people find hearing their own voices (on voice mails or other recordings) strange, unfamiliar, or even discomforting. (more)

This is a story about two men and a little baby... well, a big baby actually. (more)

There are some 14,000 people living on the streets of Las Vegas, and Nevada ranks second in the nation in homeless population per capita. (more)

Maria wants to be married in every state. (more)

A college student reflects on an important lesson learned not in the classroom but in the bedroom. (more)

This hour: a child beauty queen, a young transgendered man, and an obsessive teen. (more)