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The floods from Helene have all but wiped out Asheville's popular arts district. Now its artists are finding other ways to make up for their losses.

Facebook recently changed the contact information displayed for its users without notifying them about the specific change. The email address of Facebook users was switched to username@facebook.com instead of their preferred address. This was the latest in a long line of changes at the social networking site made without giving proper notice.

Irish author, playwright and comedian Brendan O'Carroll speaks to host Jacki Lyden about his best-selling Agnes Browne trilogy, comprised of The Mammy, The Chiselers, and The Granny. The entire set is now available in U.S. The Angelica Houston film adaptation of The Mammy, called Agnes Browne, is available on video this month. (Putnam Penguin Publishers, 2000)

Joe Palca goes in search of jellyfish at the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and talks with oceanographer Christopher Brown who says he can predict where the creatures will be and when. Research by Brown and his colleagues appears in the journal Eos. Also, jellyfish salad? We talk with Chef Mario Batali. He's the author of The Babbo Cookbook. (Clarkson Potter Publishers, ISBN 0609607758).

Gene Brian Johnson of member station WNYC reports that today is the 100th anniversary of Plessey vs. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court decision legalizing racial segregation. The High Court overturned Plessey in 1954 in the famous Brown vs. Board of Education case. But forty plus years after Brown, some African-Americans are rethinking the whole idea and rationale behind integration.

ST.JOHN BURIAL - On Sunday, the ashes of William Wallace Brown, Jr., a man who was once homeless, will be interred at St. John Episcopal Church near the White House. Brown became a member of the "church of the presidents" when former President George Bush invited him in to pray one Sunday morning.

White noise. Brown noise. Pink noise. We run the spectrum.

Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown wants Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to spell out all of the Trump family business ties. But so far, that list has not been provided. The two tangled over it.

Each Wednesday and Sunday evening at 8 p.m. “Live At The Linda” brings you some of the best musical acts to grace the stage at The Linda - WAMC's Performing Arts Studio. This week, we look back at 2022 so far. This Linda mix tape features Carsie Blanton, Jann Klose, and AJ Croce.

Chester Brown's new graphic novel is hard to categorize — a work of lay scholarship about prostitution in the Bible that's simultaneously ideosyncratic, meticulous, imaginative and heretical.