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Across America, wineries and tasting rooms can be found in converted buildings — a bordello in Arizona, a cotton gin in Texas, a church in Ohio. There's even a tasting room in an Alaska shopping center.

Book critic Alan Cheuse has a review of A Nearly Perfect Copy by Allison Amend.

Piano prodigy Lang Lang, just 20 years old, describes touching the keys as an electrical force. He's making his first appearance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where he'll perform the world premiere of Eight Memories in Water Color by Chinese composer Tan Dun. Hear Lang Lang perform two pieces on piano, and listen to a duet with his father, playing the traditional Chinese violin, the er hu

After the I-35W bridge collapsed in Minnesota last year, terms to describe bridge conditions — such as "structurally deficient" and "functionally obsolete" — peppered news stories. But what do those terms mean? Here, an explanation of bridge lingo.

Audie Cornish talks to Steven Cook of the Council of Foreign Relations about the current and historical role of the Egyptian military in politics.

In his new book, journalist Tony Horwitz chronicles the exploration of America that occurred before Jamestown. Among his discoveries: the fact that early European explorers reached about half of the states in the present-day continental U.S., including, in the 1540s, the plains of what is now Kansas.

Baseball slugger Alex Rodriguez admitted Monday that he used performance-enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2003, while playing for the Texas Rangers. He blamed the pressures of being baseball's highest-paid player. Sports Illustrated reported last week that A-Rod tested positive for steroids in 2003.

Alex Rodriguez met the press for the first time since acknowledging that he took performance-enhancing drugs. A number of his New York Yankee teammates were on hand in Tampa, Fla., to lend support to Rodriguez as the team begins spring training.

The former American Idol contestant, whom Paula Abdul dubbed "one funky white boy," just made Fight for Love, his second album since the competition. Yamin dishes on his soul sound, his time in the TV spotlight and, of course, his mom.

With a new album coming on the way, Melbourne-based Alpine is building buzz in the U.S. — including this past week at the South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.