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In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of the Gulf Coast, Greg Allen reflects on covering the catastrophe in New Orleans and digs into the archives, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

In Latino communities across the U.S., bright orange marigolds have become an important flower this time of year, because of the special role they play in Day of the Dead celebrations.

It's almost as tall as the Taj Mahal. It smolders and festers. And it's a source of income for slum dwellers nearby.

The Lois McClure is a replica of a 19th-century canal schooner. Ships like her were cargo carriers back then, but these days she hauls a new load — delivering history to ports throughout the Northeast.

For author Jeanette Winterson, Christmas is as much about food as it is about storytelling. So her new book Christmas Days combines stories with favorite recipes from her friends and family.

Thomas Day was a successful North Carolina furniture builder and woodworker in the decades before the Civil War. He was also of mixed-race heritage — and he appears to have owned slaves. A new book and exhibition tell his story.

They say every dog has its day. So does every toilet. And that day is today: World Toilet Day.

Yes, even within the hallowed halls of classical music, one can find all manner of hoodwinking, horseplay and even a raunchy song or two. Hear Renee Montagne and Miles Hoffman spin some of the more lewd and laughable musical jokes.

It's easy to make fun of disgruntled teenagers, but in his funny new Nietzsche and the Burbs, author Lars Iyer depicts them accurately and with real sensitivity, never mocking or condescending.

Commentator Robert Franklin is a professor of theology at Emory University in Atlanta. He explains some controversial statements with racial overtones made by Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Martin Luther King.