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Firehouse Community Theatre enters its Season 33 with an enticing schedule of comedies and a musical revue featuring the Firehouse Singers. For the LaBelle mainstay, the journey has been marked by resilience, resourcefulness and ingenuity.

The director's latest cinematic meditation on the meaning of life stars Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Olga Kurylenko and Javier Bardem and revolves around the question of how we might locate the presence of God in the everyday and how we can accommodate ourselves to our expulsion from the Garden.

In 2000, Auliya Atrafi paid thousands of dollars and risked his life to escape Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. He spent 12 years in England, but recently returned to his homeland, where he is trying to readjust to — and change — life in a conservative society.

The flood of Syrian refugees into Germany has offered a tableau of misery, desperation and ultimately joy. Renee Montagne talks to Syrian refugee Ahmad Akkad about his journey from Turkey to Germany.

When writer Lynn Darling found herself at a turning point in her life, she sought solitude and enlightenment in the woods of Vermont. Her new memoir, Out of the Woods, describes that midlife experience. Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan calls it "a compelling story of internal exploration, as well as outward-bound adventure."

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with musician Alejandro Escovedo about his latest album, The Crossing. It was inspired by the struggles migrants face crossing the southern border.

Emma and Rogelio Torres reminisce about how unlikely a pairing they were when they first met as migrant farmworkers in Arizona. They met in the 80s near Yuma — with love the last thing on their minds.

That tasty cup of java from your favorite gourmet coffee shop began life on a farm thousands of miles away. Farmers who cater to the specialty coffee market compete on quality. And some use the higher prices their beans fetch to reinvest in their businesses and improve conditions for workers.

Struggling to have a second child, astronaut Kellie Gerardi uses her social media presence to let others know they're not alone.

How did Samuel Barber's stirring, lush work for strings — music that has become America's semi-official music of mourning — morph into a beloved and endlessly remixed dance floor anthem?