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Halloween is back! At least for one pre-K class in Oakland, California. They had a "trunk or treat" in their first semi-normal event in more than 18 months.

As Halloween approaches, NPR movie critic Bob Mondello remembers scares he had to conjure up in his first job.

Lang helped make Woodstock a defining moment of the 1960s. He once called it "a test of whether people of our generation really believed in one another and the world we were struggling to create."

Southern California's donut shops are largely run by Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants. An artist's exhibition celebrates them through the portraits she screen prints on pink donut boxes.

Author Bret Anthony Johnston offers his endorsement of the classic. Part of the genius in Vladimir Nabokov's tale of pedophilic love, says Johnston, is that the author makes his readers complicit.

The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include avant-protest music, choral music for Ukraine, raga-rock, classic rock … plus a whole lot more.

Exxon Mobil's reports fourth-quarter profits of $10.7 billion, up 27 percent over the same quarter in 2004. It's a company record and one of the largest quarterly profits in U.S. history. The company's robust earnings have attracted strong criticism and calls for a windfall profits tax.

The Republican leadership has pulled a provision to allow drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge out of a House budget bill in an effort to secure support for passage. But opponents are seeking a written guarantee the measure won't reappear in the conference report.

A new anthology of fiction was published on World AIDS Day in response to the global epidemic. Conceived and edited by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer, Telling Talesfeatures stories from 21 distinguished authors. All profits will go to medical and advocacy programs on AIDS. NPR's Jennifer Ludden speaks with Gordimer.

Commentator Julie Zickefoose raised three orphaned hummingbirds a couple of years ago, never expecting to see them again. This is the story of their return.