Chill folks, your Huy Fong Sriracha is safe

Smash-therapy in Argentina’s Break Club

So what’s next for Edward Snowden after leaking NSA secrets? Apparently, a job

Astronaut Chris Hadfield shows childhood dreams can come true

One Iraqi doctor calls it quits

You want scary? Check out Tel Aviv’s Twilight Zone of a bus station

Music Heard on Air for October 31, 2013

Here’s how an Irishman joined Red Sox Nation and cheered his team to World Series victory

For a lesson on immigration reform, head to an Idaho dairy farm

Video: Spain revamps its economy, one plaza, one smurf at a time

Music Heard on Air for October 30, 2013

Syrian regime surrounds rebel neighborhoods with a message: surrender or starve

How one guy’s $24 investment in bitcoins turned into an $886,000 payday

One woman takes Obamacare’s promise to Bangladeshi immigrants

Bullets and bombs aren’t the only things killing people in Iraq

Chinese police say the deadly car crash in Tiananmen Square was a terrorist attack

Chilean man’s brutal murder resets the conversation about gay rights

How do you say hello when no one speaks the same language?

If you’ve never seen a tea wallah, here are photos fresh from India

Norway duo Mona & Maria debut with folk classic

Progress in the Middle East as Palestinians celebrate a prisoner release?

Turkey gets a first-of-its-kind tunnel to help ease Istanbul’s congestion

Cambodia works to revive an ancient harp, plucked from a temple wall

In the year since Sandy, scientists grow more certain on reality of climate change

One result of Syria’s war is an outbreak of polio

A Bay Area journalist draws cartoons to wake the world to the Syrian crisis

Did Martin Luther’s reformation 500 years ago leave its mark on today’s eurozone budget crisis?

How would you like your licorice? Fudge-filled, salty, sugar-free, organic…

Music Heard on Air for October 29, 2013

Toxic! Britney Spears used as a weapon against Somali pirates

A year after Sandy, a Coney Island legend is slinging more pizza than ever

If it’s country music and it’s Kenya, it must be Elvis

What will it take to curb the NSA’s spying? Political courage, says an expert

‘War of the Worlds’ turns 75. Could it happen again?

A raga man plays the Hurricane Sandy blues

The 6 highly effective habits of the creative genius

This Malaysian musician left law behind to tap into her true talent and passion for music

It’s a rough time to be a US diplomat, when your country is caught spying

A reporter caught in Hurricane Sandy looks to Asia for comparisons

Bob Marley couldn’t have said it better himself, ‘No woman, no drive’

Environmentalists and coal interests fight it out in a small Washington State election

In Iran, reformers must battle the ‘Death to America’ crowd

A daughter of immigrants tests how far a Yemeni woman can go

Lou Reed’s Berlin

Remember when phone hacking was something done by British tabloids?

Music heard on air for October 28, 2013

What would global cartoonists do without US spying revelations?

Women take the wheel across the Middle East, and not everyone is pleased

Mexico’s lawmakers are trying to reduce the appetite for sugary, fizzy drinks with new law

Maybe the US has been spying on friends, what else is new?

On the ball field there’s only one language that matters — baseball

The assumption is all countries spy on each other, but only one country has an eavesdropping nuclear weapon

Silicon Valley gets linguistic enlightenment from India

Vieux Farka Touré follows in the footsteps of his famous father

Growing up without religion in the Soviet Union, believing in jazz

‘The Story of Film’ took 6 years to make. You can see it in 15 hours.

A woman dodges rocks and Molotov cocktails to protect Peru’s ancient sites

Music Heard on the Air for October 25, 2013

School Year Blog: Students celebrate Senior Day with musical performances

School Year Blog: For low-income students, life after high school can be daunting