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The Puerto Rican rap duo is one of the most controversial bands in Latin music today. Calle 13's new album Multi_Viral finds the band questioning the price of being outspoken in Latin America.

Employers in April added more than 200,000 jobs for the third straight month, the biggest hiring spree in five years. The increase of 244,000 was larger than analysts had expected. But the unemployment rate rose to 9 percent from 8.8 percent in March.

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Gluten-free foods have been claiming more and more space on grocery store shelves lately. But the commercial take on gluten doesn't always square with science.

Instead of highlighting a Hollywood trailer I decided to highlight the preview trailer for The Visual Underground Reunion (Warning: mature content). If the people putting on this film-music-art event put this much creative effort into the teaser trailer for their show imagine how good the show will be.

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8 percent in March, and companies added workers at the fastest two-month pace since before the recession began. The economy added 216,000 new jobs last month, offsetting layoffs by local governments.

Editor's Note: This week Code Switch has been bringing you a series of stories prompted by a poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health. And one of the findings that stood out was a striking difference between Latinos born and raised in the U.S. and immigrants when it comes to the degree of openness when it comes to talking about sexual orientation. NPR's Jasmine Garsd explored how some Latin American immigrant parents interact with their gay children who were born or raised in the U.S.

The New Orleans-based bandleader Alynda Lee Segarra talks about the wide range of political and musical inspirations — from her Puerto Rican background to the Occupy movement and women's rights in India — behind her band's new album, Small Town Heroes.

The Office writer B.J. Novak expands his scope from Dunder Mifflin to the range of human experience in a new short story collection. We've got an exclusive excerpt — with readings by Novak himself, Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson.

One of the most scenic portions of the coastal highway between Tijuana and Ensenada collapsed on Dec. 28, plunging a cement truck at least 100 feet toward the sea. Geologists had warned for decades the area was unstable.