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Choosing one winner from all the incredible entries NPR Music receives each year is no small feat — but this year, one songwriter gave a captivating performance that rose to the top.

The 27-18 vote follows the unionization of performers at the Medieval Times New Jersey location in July.

"All You Can Carry" is a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Greg Ito. In this exhibition, Ito draws on his Japanese-American ancestry and his family's experience with Japanese American incarceration during WWII, specifically centered on the objects in family homes. When FDR signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942, families were sent to "internment camps" in California with only what they could carry with them, and many families, including Ito's, had to leave behind everything except the most important things. In his paintings, Ito uses symbols as a form of code to draw on those objects, and other memories. Also on view is a large-scale installation piece, a structure of a burnt home. Finally, to both propagate a sense of hope as well as commemorate Ito's grandfather, who worked as a water tower watchman at the incarceration camp, Ito also installed an interactive piece up on the ICA North hill, a short but unpaved hike from the gallery. The installation features charcoal and soil that visitors can plant California native wildflower seeds in, to be watered only by what Ito can carry in his hands up the hill. The installation will be on view Mar. 12 through May 15, 2022, with an opening reception and performative wildflower seed installation Mar. 12. from 5:30-8:30 p.m. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS Opening reception: Saturday, Mar. 12, 2022 at ICA North 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m.: Reception featuring music by DJ Omega Watts 6:30 p.m.: Artist Talk followed by a Q&A Free About the artist: Greg Ito (b. 1987, Los Angeles, CA) earned his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. His work has been exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions at galleries including Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; Division Gallery, Montreal, QC; Arsenal Contemporary, Toronto, ON; Jeffrey Deitch New York, NY; Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; Et al, San Francisco, CA; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – YBCA, San Francisco, CA. A forthcoming solo exhibition at the new Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego will open in 2022. Ito lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Related links: More details from ICA North Visitor information ICA San Diego on Instagram ICA San Diego on Facebook

In a town in Tuscany, some cooks are moving away from the stove to cook meals in boxes with thick wool lining. These portable ovens use the wool's convection properties as a means of slow cooking.

Enjoy an afternoon of your favorite arias and choral pieces from some of the most magnificent operas ever written. You’ll hear works such as “Di provenza il mar” from La Traviata, “O soave fanciulla” from La Boheme, “Nessum dorma” from Turandot, “Te Deum” from Tosca, and many more performed by soloists from Southern California and ensembles from Center Chorale and the Pacific Coast Chorale. The Opera will also feature Pacific Lyric Association’s full opera orchestra. Date | Saturday, November 6 at 4 p.m. Location | Concert Hall at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido Get tickets here! Second and First balcony: $30 Mezzanine: $35 Parterre: $40 Orchestra: $45-$50 For more information, please visit the CCAE website.

Airs Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, Dec. 22 at 6 p.m. on KPBS 2

Guillermo del Toro's new film, Pinocchio, hovers between joy and sadness. So does the music by French composer Alexandre Desplat — performed, appropriately, entirely on wooden instruments.

Morning Edition's Poet-in-Residence Kwame Alexander took poetry submissions from NPR listeners and turned them into a community-made poem for the new school year.

Voit, a 31-year-old right-handed hitter with power, led the major leagues with 22 home runs during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season when he hit .277 with 52 RBIs.

This week's Heat Check selects come largely from iconoclasts who have already zeroed in on their individual aesthetics: a singsong rap soulman, an alté sensation a noise-rap radical and more.