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In Kyiv, dance parties on a frozen river keep spirits -- and bodies -- warm after Russian strikes shattered Ukraine's energy grid.

An Ohio police chief publicly directed his officers to target a certain group for ticketing. He set a quota for the officers of Brimfield Township: at least one ticket per shift. Kids younger than 12 wearing a helmet while riding their bikes will get a free ice cream cone.

A new offering from the food chain Red Robin: milkshakes made with wine. The first wine shake on the menu will be the Mango Moscato — made with wine, vodka, mango puree and vanilla ice cream.

State fair season brings a lot of weird and fried food. The Indiana State Fair decided on spaghetti-and-meatballs ice cream as its official food — gelato noodles, strawberry-tomato sauce , chocolate meatballs and a sprinkle of white chocolate "cheese." The Iowa State Fair — home of last year's hit, deep-fried butter — now offers a double-bacon corn dog.

Payers recently gathered in Toronto for the Jamaica Olympic Ice Hockey Federation trials. The Toronto Sun is accusing Jamaica of "poaching" Canadians of Jamaican descent.

John Lurie is a saxophone player, actor, the voice of Molson on Ice, and star of his own fishing program. His band the Lounge Lizards turns 20 this year, and Lurie has released three new music projects. All Things Considered Director Bob Boilen has a profile of this offbeat big band leader. (7:00) CD's heard in this piece are the Lounge Lizards "Queen of All Ears" and the score to Manni and Lo and African Swim, by John Lurie, all the cd's are on the label Strange and Beautiful Music

NPR's Alex Chadwick reports that marine explorer Bob Ballard has found evidence of a 7000 year old human settlement under 300 feet of water in the Black Sea. Ballard believes the civilization was flooded after melting ice age glaciers caused the Mediterranean to surge over its banks and flow into what was then a shallower lake. The discovery could shed light on the biblical story of the great flood.

With the Polar Ice Cap melting and geopolitical boundaries still shifting, map-making is an painfully ephemeral undertaking. Undeterred, the cartographers at the Oxford Press have produced a new edition of the Atlas of the World.

Noah visits the office of Second Harvest, in Chicago. Second Harvest operates a network of food banks around the country, reaching, it's estimated, 26 million hungry people a year, in shelters, daycare centers, food pantry operations. Mary Picket and Debra Keegan of Second Harvest explain how it works: Second Harvets recieves a donation of ice cream or cereal or surplus salmon form Alaska, lets the food banks know by fax, then arranges shipping. The food banks pay only the shipping costs.

Choco Taco is a waffle cone folded like taco shell, stuffed with vanilla ice cream, draped in fudge and sprinkled with peanuts. It'll be shipped to you for free, if you're willing to pay $25,000.