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It's hard to distill 37 years of Frank Deford's sports commentaries down to a few "best of" pieces. But before he retired, he shared some of his favorites with us and, here, we share them with you.

Choreographer Subashini Ganesan begins a two-year tenure as the city's arts advocate, and kicks off a new South Asian arts festival.

The first Dr. Octagon project to reunite Kool Keith with Dan the Automator in 22 years picks up right where they left off, as weird and warped as ever.

Those connections between art, food, culture, ancestral lands and how they all fuse and fit and make up who we are.

Author Lisa Taddeo traveled the country to study the intricacies of how desire impacts three women's lives.

Lisa Taddeo's first book is a work of deep observation, long conversations, and a kind of journalistic alchemy. She spent years with her subjects — and the investment pays off.

The story of an abandoned son making a new life in Santa Rosa gets a podcast treatment by Word for Word.

Historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shines a new light on Pocahontas, showing how she made her way as a go-between for her two cultures, and introducing us to her long-forgotten English counterparts.

The Lady from the Black Lagoon tells the story of Milicent Patrick, who designed the Creature's monster suit. Giraffes on Horseback Salad was a Marx Brothers script scenario written by Salvador Dalí.

NPR's literature in translation specialist has rounded up two novels and two story collections to help relieve your woes.