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As the nation finally addresses its crumbling infrastructure, will urban homes get left behind?

If you're a music fan, the place to be this week is Austin, Texas. The annual South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival is in full swing. Music critic Stephen Thompson shares tracks from some of his favorite artists performing at the festival.

The book won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and is out in paperback Tuesday.

New Orleans is waiting for important news from FEMA later this month: new flood maps. They'll tell homeowners how high off the ground they should build depending on local elevations. Being any lower than that might make flood insurance prohibitively expensive or unavailable.

Debra Dean's first novel tells the story of an 82-year-old Russian emigre with Alzheimer's disease whose mind is captured by the past. Dean tells Liane Hansen what moved her to begin writing — and what the book taught her about the preciousness of memory.

"Social conservatives" are among the voters most loyal to President Bush. Almost all Republican, mostly women and substantially more conservative on social issues than the rest of the population, they represent 11 percent of Americans over 18.

Director Marilyn Agrelo talks about Mad Hot Ballroom, her documentary about New York youngsters taking part in an intense dance competition featuring the meringue, rumba, tango, foxtrot and swing. Agrelo, who also produced the film, has described it as a love poem to New York.

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman's famous New Yorker black magazine cover depicting the World Trade Center after Sept. 11 now forms the cover of his new book, a collection of cartoons about the attacks.

The decision has undermined a case against the officials who many believe to be responsible for the water crisis, former Gov. Rick Snyder and his staff at the time.

Weapons from the U.S. and other allies of Ukraine have started "working very powerfully," according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy⁠ — but the invasion has become a war of attrition, for which Ukraine and its allies may not be prepared.