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Stephen Thompson is a host, writer and reviewer for NPR Music and Pop Culture Happy Hour. He appears frequently on All Songs Considered and NPR newsmagazines.

Grab a pencil, some paper, and your calculator because it's time for some musical word problems. I'll give you a problem based on songs with numbers in their titles and you figure out what the answer is.

Call it diversity or a lack of consensus, but no single act dominated this year's awards. Instead, the Grammys spread the love, though rock bands — including The Black Keys and fun. — fared well.

Kamayan is the traditional Filipino way of eating — without utensils. But it's also a generous shared meal of time-honored colorful foods that creates camaraderie. And it's catching on in the U.S.

Dan Schorr discusses the wages of celebrity fame, in this case, Bill Cosby, who lost his son recently. Dan's guests are Alvin Poussaint, Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and Jonathan Alter, media critic at Newsweek.

WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DAN SCHORR DISCUSSES SERIOUS SNAGS IN THE PEACE PLAN FOR BOSNIA WITH SUSAN WOODWARD OF BROOKINGS INSTITUTION AND OLD DOMINION PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DAN NELSON.

Dan Coats, a former Indiana senator, has been selected as director of national intelligence. But Coats and the president-elect appear to have very different views of Russia.

A family tragedy intersects with a Shakespearean tragedy in this gentle indie dramedy when a construction worker gets roped into performing in a community theater Romeo & Juliet.

Artificial intelligence technology can now create new songs that sound like they're the work of real artists, which introduces creative possibilities — and raises legal and ethical questions.

President Trump has vowed to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but Sarah Kliff of Vox.com says it's "an overreach" to say that Republicans have a plan for what comes next.