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This week on Le Show, Harry Shearer sings "Ain't No Muslim Woman," plus looks at News of the Olympic Movement, The New Iraq, News of the Atom, America's Longest War, News of the Godly, The Apologies of the Week, and more.

The beginnings of modern music, as Debussy's Faun awakens— and Stravinsky goes wild.

Is the symphony finished? The brain says one thing, but the heart says another.

Lonnie Holley from Birmingham, Alabama is a self-taught artist and musician who uses everyday objects as sculpture that tells stories. Lonnie had a rough childhood, living with an abusive foster family who ran honky-tonk, where he was nicknamed “Tonky” McElroy. Lonnie tried to escape, hopping a train to New Orleans at nine. He was arrested at eleven and taken to the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, where Lonnie was made to pick one hundred pounds of cotton. His grandmother rescued him from the school and told him his name wasn’t Tonky McElroy but Lonnie Bradley Holley. For the last forty years, Holley has constructed artworks that have been seen at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, New York’s American Folk Art Museum, the High Museum in Atlanta, and the White House. After making home recordings for more than two decades on a keyboard Lonnie bought at a pawnshop, he released his first album at age sixty-two. His sound is experimental with lyrics improvised on the spot. Lonnie Holley explained how his artistic appreciation and ability stemmed from life at home with a large family.

Adam Vos hosted this Thursday’s episode of Louisiana Considered.

It's graduation time in Louisiana and the horizons are wide for this year's culinary students. The New Orleans Career Center is celebrating the first graduating class of their Hospitality, Restaurant, and Tourism Academy – and Louisiana Eats is joining in.We begin with Chef Alon Shaya, whose foundation plays an integral part in the new trade school. Alon knows firsthand how a single teacher can change the direction of a student's life and he's committed to giving the same opportunities to today's youth that he benefited from as a troubled teen.

Continuum hosts Milton Scheuermann, Jr. and Thais St. Julian present a program of the harpsichord music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

This week on Le Show, Harry Shearer looks at The Sixth of January in song, News of the Atom, News of the Olympic Movement, News of the Godly, The Apologies of the Week, and more.

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered.

DJ & Artist Musa Alves and musician Andrew Duhon discuss what it's like creating the cultural economy New Orleans depends on