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An 80s hairband and American cooking doyenne Julia Child are an unlikely combo, and yet, in this tribute video mash-up by our colleagues at WGBH, it works. Child would have turned 100 on August 15.

Kid Rock and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth both flew in Army Apache helicopters at a base in Virginia on Monday, weeks after military pilots drew scrutiny for hovering near the entertainer's home.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell remains one of the most popular members of the Bush administration, long after departing government service. Washington Post journalist Karen DeYoung details Powell's life of service in her new book, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell.

Angels in America, playwright Tony Kushner's epic meditation on AIDS, hope and despair in 1980s America, is finally making the move from the stage to the small screen. The television movie boasts an all-star cast, and its first installment airs Sunday on HBO. NPR's Lynn Neary reports.

A new film explores issues of aging in America in an unusual way. Assisted Living combines fiction and documentary footage to tell the story of a young janitor and an old woman. It takes place in a nursing home in Kentucky and was written and directed by 23-year-old Elliot Greenbaum.

A panel of judges in Louisiana has just ended telemedicine access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationally.

Alan Cheuse reviews Zorro by Isabel Allende. The novel takes place in early nineteenth-century California and Spain. It spurs to life the legendary romantic hero Zorro.

In five decades of filmmaking, director Sidney Lumet has shepherded some of Hollywood's biggest stars to Oscar nominations. His latest film, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, also has a pretty stellar cast, and Oscar may just come calling again.

Commentator Machlyn Blair isn't an immigrant, but he sees a lot of parallels between the current immigration debate and the story of his own life. Blair is a 19-year-old living in rural Kentucky. But he suspects he may not be able to live there for long. He wonders if he'll have to leave everything he knows in order to make a better living.

The Derailers, an Austin-based alternative country band, call themselves "door-to-door honky-tonk salesmen." They tour non-stop, playing 300 shows a year. Listen to their music and their story on Morning Edition.

Rock historian Ed Ward tells us about the British band The Pretty Things, a band that was a spin off-of group of the early Rolling Stones. Last year they released the reissue, Come See Me: The Very Best of The Pretty Things.

John Biewen of American RadioWorks explores how one predominantly black neighborhood in Durham, North Carolina, tries to cope with a high incarceration rate…and with the steady flow of returning ex-inmates.