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Saturday is the winter solstice — which means it will be the longest night of the year. For many artists and poets, that thought is far from depressing: instead, night's darkness is invigorating. Filmmaker Phil Cousineau has edited a new collection on the allure of the night, and Jeff Dowd — the inspiration for "The Dude" — wrote the foreword.

After half a century, The Exorcist is still considered one of the scariest movies ever made. But one priest says it's a movie deeply concerned with faith, and responding to evil.

Hillary Clinton leaned into her identity when she ran for president. Vice President Kamala Harris is decidedly not.

We read listener-submitted poems, as NPR's Scott Detrow celebrates National Poetry Month with poet Franny Choi, author of the collection The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On.

On Thursday's Wake Up Call from WUSF, it’s music roundup time with Warren Buchholz. He’s got some cool local shows to check out. Plus some events you can go to tonight. And the news headlines, including Pinellas County school cuts.

Warren Buchholz joins Sky for this weekend's local music events you should check out. Plus some events tonight, if you’re looking for something to do. And the news headlines, including concern over "forever chemicals" in Temple Terrace.

Today we’re getting to know dietitian Deanna Wolfe. But she needs no introduction if you’re among her hundreds of thousands of social media followers.

You ever think about building model ships? Yeah, neither do we. But we went to a club in the Tampa Bay area where it's their lifestyle. We’ll go there together in a couple minutes, plus we have some free holiday events to check out. But first, let’s hit the news.

Get to know Chef Shelby Farrell of Oystercatchers. Located on the grounds of Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, the waterfront restaurant is known for its elaborate Sunday brunch.

Explore Tampa's signature flavor: guava. Historian Rodney Kite-Powell of the Tampa Bay History Center breaks down the fruit's unlikely role in the creation of modern Tampa.

Karen Two Shoes of the Seminole Tribe of Florida lost 80 pounds, became a registered dietitian and now helps others eat more like their indigenous ancestors did.

When our elders pass, so do their recipes. Actor and restaurateur Billy Dec traveled to the Philippines to find his last living maternal elders and learn his ancestral recipes.

In 2020, St. Petersburg Deputy Mayor Kanika Tomalin released a cookbook called St. Pete Eats. Today she is the president and CEO of Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg.

Former Marine Bing West talks with Steve Inskeep about the efforts against insurgents in Ramadi. Bing has been to Ramadi nine times since 2003. He returned from an assignment there last week, reporting for the online magazine Slate.

Tribal housing has been underfunded for decades. With pandemic relief funding, tribes now say they should be able to build as many homes in just a few years as they have in the last 25.

The president will address a joint session of Congress. N.C. court considers whether to release bodycam footage from police killing. Michigan hospitals open triage tents to handle influx of patients.

Arizona's Supreme Court says an abortion ban passed during the Civil War should be the law of the land today. The EPA is putting limits on PFAS in drinking water.

When it comes to health-care math, sometimes the numbers don’t add up for Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

Police in the Indian capital New Delhi had to break up a second day of protests Sunday. Hundreds of people were demonstrating against the gang rape and beating of a 23-year-old student on a bus.

Americans' life expectancy declined by nearly two years in 2020 compared to the year before, primarily because of COVID-19. The drop in life expectancy was bigger for men, and for Blacks and Latinos.

After the Dunblane massacre in Scotland left 16 students dead, parents organized to make sure it could never happen again. What can the U.S learn from them as we struggle to combat gun violence?

It is the Zapruder film of birding: Four seconds of what some scientists say is proof that the ivory-billed woodpecker is not extinct. Now, skeptics have deconstructed every frame and say the bird caught on film is just a common pileated woodpecker.

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the state's top medical officer, upset legislators from both parties after refusing to wear a mask when speaking to a state senator with breast cancer and state regulators approve FPL rate increase.

Brazil's Atlantic Forest, home to the golden lion tamarin, was once a massive ecosystem stretching along the Brazilian coast. But centuries of human activity have encroached upon the forest, leaving the future of this tiny, lion-maned monkey in doubt.

The tax collecting agency is one of those affected by the partial government shutdown, but the White House says it will issue refunds, reversing previous government policy.