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With a huge backlog in the chamber, House Speaker Tina Kotek expects to pause many routine committee hearings.

Grant Hart has had an enigmatic career since his days drumming for the influential punk trio. His latest project is an ambitious double album, based on an unpublished work by his friend, the late William S. Burroughs.

Highly emotional rock that reads as low-stakes at first, Lost in the Dream is evocative and pleasant if you let it float by in the background. But it's made with hooks that sink in deep.

Richard Shryock, Virginia Tech's chairman of foreign languages and literatures, lost two faculty members and 15 students in his department in last April's shootings. A year later, he's planting trees in quiet reflection over their loss.

The afropop ensemble formed when two American expats met two Ivorian musicians in the late 1990s. Separated for a decade by civil war in Ivory Coast, the group has reassembled to record its lost songs.

Linguist Elizabeth Little took a two-year trip across the U.S. in search of the country's lost languages. The resulting book is Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Lost Languages.

A new book uncovers the research of John Work, who accompanied folklorist Alan Lomax on a trip to the Mississippi Delta in the early 1940s. They documented the music heard in churches, blues joints and cotton fields of the South.

In 1990, 13 valuable works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The case became an obsession for detective Harold Smith, who recently died. Filmmaker Rebecca Dreyfus discusses her documentary, Stolen, which seeks to help recover the art.

Aid worker and commentator Steve Weaver says there are two general arguments in the United States about the way to proceed in Iraq: Stay the course or withdraw the troops as soon as possible. Weaver says that neither of these plans takes into consideration the best interests of Iraq.

Jeanine Menze was discouraged from pursuing her dream to fly planes when she didn't see any women of color in the field. Then she met La'Shanda Holmes. "When I met you, I saw myself," Menze told her.