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You'll hear about some kid-friendly events, from a back-to-school carnival to tickets available for Dude Perfect, a touring group of dads who got famous on YouTube for making crazy basketball trick shots. All of that, plus today's headlines, on the pod with host Gabriella Paul. (edited)

Do you remember your school lunch number? Sky does, though he has no idea why. Hear how politics are cutting their way into the lunch line at school. Plus, some fun events to pencil in for the week. But first — the news.

Tonight is the second-to-last show at Ybor's independent music venue, the Crowbar, before closing up shop. You'll hear from the owner. Plus, a Tampa-based trombonist and a psychedelic funk group are performing near you. Hear about it on today's pod along with your daily headlines!

It’s local weekend event roundup time. We have Legos, cats, comedy and cheap carnival games — some true event diversity here in the Tampa Bay area. You’ll hear about all of it in just a bit, but first, let’s hit the news.

Happy 813 Day to all who celebrate! Get ready for a local music roundup with WUSF's Warren Buchholz, plus some events you can check out to take part in the 813 festivities today. But first – let’s hit the local headlines.

It’s weekend event roundup time, with a special guest! We’ll be talking books, animals, and moving and grooving, all going on over the next couple days in the Tampa Bay area. But first – let’s hit the news.

Officials finalized an agreement late last week to help pay for a new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark across from Raymond James Stadium. Plus, Bradenton officials take up the debate over Flock cameras. And, of course, some events around town to spruce up your weeknights.

A leaked report details how lots of money from a state Medicaid settlement ended up partly in the pocket of a charity with ties to First Lady Casey DeSantis. Plus, FDOT disallows the use of Flock cameras by local police. And, a couple events to kick back at this week.

For comedienne Joan Rivers, almost everything is fair game: race, sex, death and, of course, her life. That's the subject on her new autobiographical play, Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress.

After Category 4 Hurricane Ian pushed a wall of water onto Southwest Florida, some residents remain optimistic while others plan to leave the state.

On Guts, the 20-year-old pop phenom is a little louder and funnier than the teenager on her debut — and even more fascinated with what the best songwriters leave out of the picture.

After selling for $1.4 million three years ago, the half-destroyed piece is going back up for sale with big expectations.

Former President Donald Trump and other prominent Republicans have questioned FEMA’s response and claimed that its funding is going to migrants or foreign wars.

Last year, the State Department launched a program that brings international artists to Main Street America. The groups are trying to open ears in the U.S. — and send a message back home.

Poetry has deep roots in music — in fact, in some cultures, poetry and song are the same word. Edward Hirsch, author of A Poet's Glossary,explains how poets use rhythm to reach their readers.

NPR's Lynn Neary talks with book writers — Laura Miller of Salon.com, and blogger Mark Sarvas of The Elegant Variation — about worthy books that got overlooked by the mainstream book-review sections in 2007. Here's a rundown of their recommendations.

The lawmakers hand-delivered the articles after a party-line House vote. The process is now fully with the Senate, which is expected to begin its trial next week.

The eagerly anticipated news was better than expected. And the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised upward its estimates of job growth in February and March.

Trump is indicted in Georgia for seeking to overturn the state's election results. DA Fani Willis, who is charging him, is no stranger to high-stakes cases. And, how microbes turn cabbage to kimchi.

It may have started out as an insult, but there's nothing wrong with Dad TV. You can see it all – responsibility-free wish fulfillment, fistfights, romantic fantasy – in the new season of Reacher.

In How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith visits eight places central to the history of slavery in America, including Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation and Louisiana's Angola prison.

Researchers analyzing recent drug spending in the U.S. say that high-priced drugs for rare diseases aren't having a widespread or significant effect on overall health care spending.

Florida International University’s Martina Potlach, whose studies marry landscape design and ecology, gave ideas on how to reconceptualize how shorelines work if humans are to live in coastal South Florida as storms intensify and the sea moves in.

In Connecticut, the birth of what's thought to be a rare white bison is drawing Native Americans to a sacred ceremony. But in Texas, no one has yet been arrested in the May killing of another such animal and there's anger over the pace of the investigation.

As of March 15, the state of Florida has expanded its criteria for coronavirus testing to allow doctors to test at their discretion.