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After years of public hearings, the fate of two controversial projects in north San Diego County could be in the hands of the state legislature. A bill to block the Gregory Canyon landfill passed a key vote today.

New Orleans has a lot to celebrate this month: a Super Bowl win, Mardi Gras, and the new album by five-man funk band Galactic. The album is called "Ya-Ka-May" and drops tomorrow, February 9th. You can see the band live at The Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach on March 3rd. Check out a little preview of all the New Orleans musicians Galactic worked with on "Ya-Ka-May."

Hear the U.S. premiere of two new songs by Arcade Fire, from the band's upcoming album The Suburbs.

With spring just around the corner, Culture Lust contributor Alex Morales reveals her 10 arts and culture findings for the month of March.

Pop band OK Go makes another clever music video, this time for the song "This Too Shall Pass" from the album "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky." Shot in a warehouse in L.A.'s Echo Park, the band dances with a massive Rube Goldberg machine, and it's all shot on one long 4-minute take.

NPR Paris correspondent Eleanor Beardsley doesn't expect a ton of sympathy when she complains about unending holidays in France. But when you have a kid who's always off school, it's tough. Really.

Airs Sunday, April 24, 2011 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

The musical about an endurance competition to win a truck is headed to Broadway. "Hands on a Hardbody" is currently having its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse.

Culture Lust contributor Dave Walters shares his five favorite album releases of the year. Walters says his pick for best rock album was a no-brainer.

Through the centuries, old songs known as the Child ballads have been passed down and tweaked to fit the times. More recently, they've been adapted by the folk revivalists of the 1950s and rockers from the '60s and '70s. Now, a duo of young songwriters is reviving them yet again.