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Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2 + 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, Nov. 16 at 6:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. Enjoy a lavish music and dance gala concert taped live at the historic Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria in 2013. Hosted by world-famous mezzo soprano Frederica von Stade, (Metropolitan Opera) and Academy Award-winning actor and Viennese-native Maximilian Schell, this special celebrates the musical heritage of Vienna.

One word came to mind this week when we saw the stories about Texas physical education teacher Dale Irby and how he had worn the same "groovy shirt and sweater vest" for every school photo in the past 40 years:

All this week, NPR is taking a lookat the demographic changes that could reshape the political landscape in Texas over the next decade -- and what that could mean for the rest of the country. We take a closer look at the local journalists covering the coming changes, in this part of the series.

The tiny organs created from stem cells aren't complete, but they act like regular livers when transplanted into mice, Japanese scientists say. Still, it will be years before the synthetic organs could help people with liver problems, even if further research all works out as hoped.

All this week, NPR is taking a look at the demographic changes that could reshape the political landscape in Texas over the next decade -- and what that could mean for the rest of the country.

All this week,NPR is taking a lookat the demographic changes that could reshape the political landscape in Texas over the next decade -- and what that could mean for the rest of the country.

Andrea Brearley's kids really want to see Pixar while on vacation. The problem is that the family is staying in San Francisco and with rail workers on strike, they're having a hard time figuring out how to get to the cartoon-maker's headquarters across the bay in Emeryville, Calif.

If an encounter between several young women and Virginia's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control agents had gone that smoothly, the participants might be looking back on a chance encounter as merely odd, perhaps even funny. Instead, they're coping with the aftermath of a brief flight from authorities that resulted in spending a night in jail and felony charges, now dropped, of hitting agents with a car. The state agency says it's reviewing the case.

Movie star Ava Gardner agreed to write her memoirs with British journalist Peter Evans in 1988. Now, after the deaths of both Gardner and Evans, the results of their abortive collaboration are being published. Reviewer Bob Mondello says the book is dead on arrival.

It's no secret: Texas is big. And it's getting bigger.