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After news came out that a sales clerk in Zurich refused to show Oprah Winfrey a $38,000 bag, some people are wondering how a bag could cost as much as a mid-range luxury sedan.

A cabaret singer channeling everyone from Adele to Julie Andrews has racked up a million-plus YouTube plays since her video went up Aug. 11. Herewith, a few questions for Christina Bianco, who turns out to have an NPR connection.

Violinist and conductor Joshua Bell is going to be joining Lance Bass and a Shark Tank judge in Atlantic City. (And one of the country's foremost classical music critics is a preliminary rounds judge.) Is there a classical music/beauty pageant axis we just didn't know about?

The first time a child moves away from home can be tough on parents. Commentator Barbara J. King asks whether our closest animal relatives, monkeys and apes, also feel powerful emotions when their offspring leave the nest.

The violence with which the Egyptian security forces stormed anti-government camps and the still rising death toll are part of a multi-decade pattern in Egyptian history.

U.S. birthrates are lower now than at any time in American history. We speak to the author of a recent Time cover story "The Childfree Life," and to one woman who chose not to have children.

A parent is throwing a dance party for her 8-year-old and needs upbeat, kid-friendly suggestions.

The car is advertised at 47 miles per gallon in combined city and highway driving, but tests have reportedly shown the figure is too high.

For Baltimore-based artist Julianna Brion, NPR news and stories turn ordinary walks around town into global adventures. It's illustrated in the artwork she created for the 2014 NPR Wall Calendar.

In their approaches to history, Jobs and Lee Daniels' The Butler could hardly be less similar. Yet the two movies have much in common — just nothing terribly exciting.