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Make My Head Sing... is an album of contradictions. It's full of unreliable narrators who sometimes revel in jealousy, willful insanity and drugs, even as her voice and the music suggest otherwise.

Nine performers were seriously injured Sunday when a support apparatus failed at a show by the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Rhode Island.

The multitalented Sid Caesar, who took live and complex comedy skits on the air as a pioneer in 1950s TV, has died at 91. Caesar, who established a new comedic tradition in America before he was 30, died in Los Angeles this week.

The 52 scientists and paying passengers aboard the MV Akademik Shokalskiy had been stranded by ice since Christmas Eve. They've been flown by helicopter to an Australian ship in open waters. The 22 crew members of the Akademik Shokalskiy are staying behind. It's hoped the ship will soon break free.

Curators and interns at the New York State Museum were digging through their audio archives in an effort to digitize their collection when they unearthed a treasure: a reel-to-reel tape.

There it is: a wild animal, lurking. Here's Andrew, darting so fast, using his bare hands — and bingo! Suddenly, he's holding the animal. He doesn't use weapons — just his lightning-quick reflexes.

Given the choice, what's the last song you'd like to hear before shuffling off this mortal coil?

A massive Proton-M rocket carrying three Russian navigation satellites veered off course shortly after liftoff.

Michele Norris hosts an evening screening of the documentary The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with Laura Murphy, Julian Bond and Terence Samuel. The free event takes place Friday, July 19 at NPR HQ in Washington DC.

Wiig does a random Michael Jordan impression on Jimmy Fallon; Twentieth Century Fox wants to be a Broadway baby; Helena Bonham Carter digs into Elizabeth Taylor's stranger side.