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2013 is full of promise on the arts and culture front. Culture Lust contributor Alex Morales shares her top 10 picks for the month of February.

The uneasiness is being felt all along the poverty-stricken Delta as oozing floodwaters from the Mississippi River and its tributaries spill across farm fields, cut off churches, wash over roads and force people from their homes.

Culture Lust contributor and film noir buff Randy Dotinga wants to know if you think San Diego could be the setting for a noir film. Are there dark corners perfect for clandestine meetings? Murders? Femme fatales?

R.I.P. Varla

Another month means another genre-spanning mix of new music chosen by public radio's top DJs. Download new songs by Neko Case, Jason Marsalis, Valerie June, Porter Ray and many other artists.

An enormous iceberg in Antarctica plowed into a peninsula made of ice and snapped it off, creating a second gigantic iceberg. The new 48-mile-long floating island of ice could make life difficult for the penguin colony made famous by the movie March of the Penguins.

A selection of 25 deep, joyful, rewarding albums from every genre, out of every corner of the world, from the first six months months of 2014, picked by NPR Music.

The year is 1622, and a tormented English Puritan strikes out for the Plymouth Plantation in Hugh Nissenson's moody, intelligent novel. Critic Maureen Corrigan says The Pilgrim is a work of straightforward historical fiction — of the sort that you don't see so much anymore.

Tribal officials accuse the federal government of allowing a uranium mill to discard radioactive material at the Tuba City Open Dump. The Feds say it was contaminated by winds carrying dust from abandoned mines.

Frustration over the thick, oozing crude tainting Gulf Coast marshland has been building in the month since the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Oil companies blame one another, state and local officials say the federal response has been lacking, and ordinary residents have expressed outrage over the impact on their home states.