World Cafe with host David Dye serves up an eclectic mix of music from blues, rock, and world, to folk and alternative country, with live performances and interviews with celebrated and emerging artists.
Visiting the Crescent City's most mystical locations (a cemetery, a spiritual supply shop, a voodoo temple) with a musician whose juju is always in good form.
DiFranco takes World Cafe host David Dye around the funky Bywater neighborhood, introducing him to the up-and-coming roots-rock band Hurray for the Riff Raff and an activist organization called the Roots of Music Program.
Download a song from the Irish duo, whose music evokes the world-weariness and determination of the Depression-era writer and namesake for the group's second album, John Fante.
FBI agents believe they have a credible lead on the whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa's body. If they're right, it will solve a longstanding mystery, which will also deflate Hoffa's resonance in popular culture.
Did a 10-pound bag of potatoes really cost $15 back in 2008? We get to the bottom of some puzzling numbers in the lawsuit alleging America's potato growers have become a spud cartel.
The legislation is one of the most far-reaching abortion bills in decades and follows the May murder convictions of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell. The bill, which would ban nearly all abortions starting 20 weeks after fertilization, is unlikely to ever become law.
Profits for the nation's carmakers are on the rise, but after years of doing more with less, higher profits are unlikely to translate into significant numbers of new jobs. There are eight fewer plants and hundreds of thousands fewer workers in the industry than before the Great Recession.