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Carl Kinsel of Sable Furs discusses debut album Sine Qua Non, out this week. Catch Thursday's listening party at Yellow Racket Records and Friday's release show at The Boneyard in Chattanooga.

For more than twenty years, the Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti - a nonprofit based here in Chattanooga and the Tennessee Valley - has helped women and families to break the cycle of malnutrition in a remote, mountainous area of southern Haiti. But ever since the summer of last year, CNP’s work has been disrupted by shock after shock for the Caribbean nation.

Here in Chattanooga, Keelah Jackson is known as “The Mastercreative.” At the heart of her latest work is a new self-help book: “I Am the Gospel of Me," filled with art therapy, anecdotes of encouragement and moral support.

(Aired Weds 3/19/25) In July 1925 - a century ago this summer - the Scopes Trial was held in Dayton, Tennessee. On trial: John Scopes, a high school teacher accused of violating a Tennessee law that barred the teaching of evolution in public schools.

On a clear night, when you can see the constellations in the sky, the stars can appear ever close and yet ever far. For Neena Wang, the constellations are “our oldest ancestors.” A multidisciplinary artist, Neena is the curator of “Celestial Bodies” - opening Friday at Stove Works here in Chattanooga.

(Aired Thu 1/09/25) Just off Brainerd Road here in Chattanooga, an observatory stands on a hill whose rock is about 450 million years old. The Clarence T. Jones Observatory, owned and operated by our campus: The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

“Roots So Deep (you can see the devil down there)” is a documentary series about farmers, scientists and how we can use land to help curb climate change. Two parts of the four-part series will be screened next week here in Chattanooga - at the AMC Classic Majestic 12 - on Tuesday and Wednesday.

A strong earthquake shook much of Taiwan on Sunday, toppling a three-story building, stranding about 400 tourists on a mountainside, and knocking part of a passenger train off its tracks.

Lexie Schapitl is a producer with NPR's Washington Desk, where she does a little bit of everything. She can be found reporting from Capitol Hill, producing the NPR Politics Podcast or writing the weekly NPR Politics newsletter.