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This weekend the cultural highlights in our region include a kind of multiplatform remix of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, a new stage comedy, an outspoken…

The cultural highlights for our region this weekend include cabaret, Québécois folk music, free jazz, free rock ‘n’ roll, symphonic music … plus a whole lot more.

Prima ballerina Olga Smirnova will leave Moscow's Bolshoi ballet and Russia in protest of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. She told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about her experience with the Bolshoi in 2018.

Even before the Bush administration embarked on the current war in Iraq, many musicians were speaking out in opposition. Veterans of the antiwar movement from a generation ago say that society and the media have changed significantly since the end of the Vietnam War -- and that's changed musical protest. Now those Vietnam-era musicians are raising their voices again. Listen to some live tracks recorded at a recent New York City concert against the war in Iraq.

NPR's newest show, Invisibilia debuted last week and our listeners responded with a range of feedback, including one story of a harrowing commute home that may or may not be true.

The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include opera, R&B, roots music, Chinese music … plus a whole lot more.

Kohaku Uta Gassen is a popular singing competition with roots in Japan. It came to the U.S. with a generation of immigrants from that country, and Denver's Kohaku is still thriving today.

A U.S. official says at least 46 people have been found dead inside a tractor-trailer in a presumed migrant smuggling attempt in South Texas.

The fleet fingers of accordion player La India Canela stand out in the world of merengue music, and her original songs have her home country of the Dominican Republic dancing. She plays a song and speaks with Andrea Seabrook about overcoming the accordion's reputation as an instrument for men.

Her creations invoke polyglot rhythms and revolutionary rhetoric from around the world. But singer, producer and rapper M.I.A. communicates them through agitated, propulsive dance music. Two years after her debut, her new album finds her more adventurous than ever.