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A New York art student and firefighter has turned a storefront in Williamsburg, Brooklyn into the The City Reliquary, where he preserves and displays ephemera from New York's five boroughs.

Music critic Josh duLac looks at some of this week's new releases, including albums from Lil Wayne, My Morning Jacket and Solomon Burke.

It took a renegade of modern film, Dennis Hopper, to engineer one of the great had-to-happen musical summits of modern times. To provide the music for The Hot Spot, the director hired greats from different musical worlds: bluesman John Lee Hooker and jazz trumpeter Miles Davis.

A new Smithsonian exhibit called "Red, Hot and Blue" salutes American musicals, from both stage and screen. The exhibit features songs and artifacts from the great era of Tin Pan Alley classics and lavishly produced musicals...from Dolly Levi's hat in "Hello, Dolly!" to self-portraits by George and Ira Gershwin and Irving Berlin's piano...and anecdotes about the performers and composers who created some of America's most distinctive music. The opening night party brought out some people with familiar names -- Astaire, Gershwin, and Arlen -- as they helped celebrate their famous relatives' accomplishments. NPR's Susan Stamberg reports. reports.

The Tony Awards are tonight, and NPR entertainment editor Trey Graham will be watching. But he thinks it's too bad that there aren't any categories for the best backstage dramas. Until that day comes, here are three applause-worthy books about what goes on behind the scenes.

bye Dolly - The sheep cloning project in Scotland that has gained international attention this past week has had its funding slashed. Professor Grahame Bulfield, Director of the Roslin Institute tells Korva Coleman, however, he believes it has nothing to do with the nature of the research.

A handful of indie labels are preserving the recorded legacy of original cast albums, at a time when the major labels are doing fewer and fewer of them. The work has not gone unnoticed at the Grammys this year, where several indie-produced albums are nominated.

Jazz expression remains forever steeped in the innovations of Armstrong's trumpet solos. The scope and magnitude of his virtuosity was nothing short of world-altering. Each time he held his horn up to his lips, he made melodies ring out in a joyful, brilliant tone.

South Korean scientists announced Wednesday they have created the first cloned dog. Snuppy, an Afghan hound, was born in April. The cloning technique used is not efficient. It took nearly 2,000 eggs to make some 1,000 embryos -- all of which produced just one healthy puppy.

Hercules, a slave of George Washington, and James Hemings, owned by Thomas Jefferson, began a long connection of presidents and their African-American cooks. And President Lyndon Johnson's black cook may have influenced his work on civil rights reform.