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Braille Without Borders was the first school for the blind in Tibet, founded by a German woman who is blind herself, Sabriya Tenberken. On assignment profiling Tenberken, writer Rosemary Mahoney had to face her own fear of losing her sight and challenge long-standing misconceptions about blindness.

Tarantulas are looking for love in southeastern Colorado. The city of La Junta capitalizes on the spiders' annual season of romance by hosting a tarantula festival.

Forget the taped readings of yore. Today's audiobooks feature integrated musical performances, movie-quality sound effects and all-star casts of rotating narrators. Take a peek at the new world of listenable literature with AudioFile magazine founder Robin Whitten's list of four notable audiobooks from 2013.

In one impoverished neighborhood of Medellin, Colombia, residents are tackling the effects of climate change in part by filtering their own drinking water.

English blues singer and guitarist Joanne Shaw Taylor, who was discovered by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics at the age of 16, brings her modern blues-rock sound to the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, Mass., tonight at 8pm.

Michael Sanchez was testing out his new camera when he happened upon a feathered subject. The blue rock-thrush he photographed on the coast of northern Oregon last week has excited the birding world.

A $300 million Major League Soccer stadium complex that would need to be finished by the 2026 season is being proposed for downtown Albany.

The students are calling for the university to divest from weapons manufacturers fueling the war in Gaza and broader reforms at Cornell. This follows protests and encampments at universities across the country.

Local officials are reacting to a report that MGM Resorts is looking into a possible sale of its casino in Springfield, Massachusetts.

The great American sculptor died on Tuesday at his home in New York on the North Fork of Long Island. He was 85.