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As crews dig out from a record-breaking snow storm in New England, there are new worries about flooding. The National Weather Service reported waves three stories high off the coast. NPR's Jeff Brady reports from Boston.

Students at New Orleans' McDonogh 35 — New Orleans' first African-American school, which now attracts kids from all over the city — march up to six miles a night to usher in the Carnival season.

In a world of increased virtual connections, are we missing something? Weekend Edition Sunday is exploring a few of the places where technology can actually drive us apart and make real intimacy tough: in our romantic relationships, with our kids, even in the workplace.

Shayne Hughes, CEO of Learning as Leadership, thought his staff had become too dependent on email to communicate. So he launched an experiment: no internal email for one whole week.

Zhuang Zedong's gift to an American table tennis player paved the way for President Nixon's groundbreaking visit to China. Zhuang was 73.

The new video for James Blake's latest single, "Retrograde," imagines a dreamlike world where lovers are suspended in time, as Blake, dressed to resemble a spaceman, looks on helplessly.

Although you can't hear anything in space, scientists can still use sound to understand the solar system by turning data collected by NASA satellites into sounds and music. Listen to how one sonification specialist creates music out of eruptions on the sun.

Amid a demographic shift in California, university officials are heading to church to find new applicants.

Whether fighting about texting or curfew, the key to resolving parent-child disputes is by helping them understand why they're angry in the first place. It usually turns out to be another stress like trouble at school or fear of embarrassment.

It's Oscar season, meaning that classic toe-tapper "Hooray for Hollywood" will soon be booming out of TV speakers everywhere. But the cheery cinema hymn has a more complicated compositional past, as NPR's special correspondent Susan Stamberg explains.