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Memorial Day weekend kicks off with a B-52s concert.

THE GESAMTKUNSTWERK is one of modernism’s most telling inventions. Built from dance, music, theater, and poetry, it sought to stanch the crisis of modernity with a multisensory experience: If life was breaking up—split between public and private, work and leisure—the “total work of art” promised to bind disciplines and audience together to create something like community. Beginning in 1876 under the patronage of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Richard Wagner launched a festival to stage his epic operas in Bayreuth, Germany, inspiring a devoted, at times fascistic, cult as well as fierce...

The Thermopolis Police Department, as well as the Wyoming Department of Transportation announced that, as of 6:51 p.m., Highway US 20/WY 789 is closed due to a rock slide.

Some 20 more are missing, dozens more injured. the collapse came after days of rain. at least one of the boats sunk under the falling rock. in pakistan today, at least 22 people, many of them children, are known to have died in a massive snowstorm. victims were stuck and stranded in their vehicles overnight on a highway near a mountain resort town. the snow measured four feet deep in some areas. the latest assessment of the once-reliably frozen arctic is causing alarm among climate scientists. in tonight's "eye on earth," cbs' roxana saberi reports the changes could ripple across the entire gl...

Walked out the door - and saw what looks like an immense river that covered everything, that took everything with it. my car was here, swimming about as high as the second floor. and that's not all — oil spills are also a side—effect of the heavy rains. this pipeline was ruptured by a falling rock in the eastern napo province. oil has contaminated two hectares of the cayambe coca national park and seeped into the river coca, which supplies water to indigenous amazon communities. back in quito, the painful struggle to find survivors continues. aruna iyengar, bbc news. stay with us on bbc ne...