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For many along the Gulf Coast, the holiday season brought a welcome chance to see family. But it didn't stop efforts to rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Between events, the Bordelon family has been stripping out and cleaning up their two-story home in their St. Bernard neighborhood.

António Guterres also extended condolences to the families of the 10 people who were killed in the shooting.

Michele Norris says she's had enough of chatty dolls, singing globes and anything else with a talking microchip. All those annoying playthings make her wonder: Why are toys so loud?

StoryCorps, the oral history project, opens a new recording booth in New York, at the site of the World Trade Center. An initial piece of the planned memorial, the booth will provide a way for those who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001, to share their stories.

Chip Taylor is a music business vet who penned "Wild Thing" before Carrie Rodriguez was born. But the unlikely duo are critical darlings and staples of adult album alternative radio.

Williamstown Theatre Festival in western Massachusetts offers a summer program that has been called "theater boot camp." British-trained actor Roger Rees is the company's new artistic director.

In a world where most modern dance companies are struggling just to break even, the Mark Morris Dance Group is marking its 25th Anniversary. To celebrate, Morris and his dancers are staging a month-long series of concerts and events at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Music reviewers generally wait until November and December to assess the year in music. But 2008's halfway point seems like a good place to stop and look back at six busy months full of critics' darlings, Internet sensations and even, in a grim commercial climate, commercial hits.

The Drama Theater had become a place of refuge, with hundreds of people gathered inside and in the bomb shelter below. City officials accused Russia of inhuman cruelty.

The album mixes intoxicating, danceable rhythms and a message calling out violence and other forms of mistreatment of women all over the globe.