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The high-energy dance classes are all the rage, but some critics are taking issue with the fitness craze being labeled as Latin dance. Authentic or not, with 12 million people dancing off the pounds, Zumba business is booming.

Daisy Armstrong struggled in school. She was homeless for a time. Then she began performing poetry — and it helped her, a gay woman, find a niche where she never thought she'd belong: the Army.

The drummer, singer and producer gives a virtuosic display of musicianship, lyricism and artistic innovation at the Tiny Desk.

Ben Affleck directs a movie that tries (and fails) to squeeze dramatic tension out of the origins of the Air Jordan. Matt Damon and Viola Davis star in this soulless dramatization.

Clancy Martin lives with two incompatible ideas in his head: "I wish I were dead – and I'm glad my suicides failed." His book shares insights and guidance for people struggling with suicidal thoughts.

Steven Yeun and Ali Wong are excellent in Beef, a new Netflix comedy-drama about two people whose road rage incident may just destroy them entirely.

A shot of the Nazi concentration camp appeared briefly in a video promoting a wrestling match. The Auschwitz Memorial called the move "shameless."

With nearly 9 billion streams, the popular K-pop girl group beat the previous titleholders, Little Mix, on Wednesday, according to Guinness World Records.

For more than 30 years, the Pacific Northwest Ballet's Nutcracker has used sets and costumes designed by the author of Where the Wild Things Are. This year, the ballet is retiring the production.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to film composer Justin Hurwitz, 29, about his first major movie score, for the movie Whiplash. Hurwitz talks about using music to heighten tension.