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Fresh Air's jazz critic reviews Mark Miller's High Hat, Trumpet, and Rhythm: The Life and Music of Valaida Snow. It's a biography of jazz singer and musician Valaida Snow, aka "Little Louis."

The legendary Chicago journalist found stories in places most reporters looked away from. Now his son has edited an anthology of his late father's work, called The People Are The News: Grant Pick's Chicago Stories.

A small group of Jews, held in a Nazi concentration camp, are spared their lives — as long as they work on a massive counterfeit operation. Based on true story, and nominated for an Oscar.

A governess teams up with a showgirl to amiably comic effect in this splashy period piece: Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) is a frump who blooms, and Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams) is, as her stage name suggests, delicious from the start.

This year's Academy Awards got the worst ratings in ceremony history. Madeleine Brand talks to comedy duo Frangela, former Seinfeld writer Peter Mehlman and others about how they'd fix the show. Prince, gambling and bare midriffs are part of the plan.

Photographer Kevin Connolly was born without legs and was used to being gawked at. Then he started gawking back -- with a camera.

The Writers Guild of America voted to end its 14-week strike yesterday, which has cost the economy millions of dollars. St. Petersburg Times TV/Media critic Eric Deggans explains the latest details.

Forty years ago, another presidential race was focused on an unpopular war. The 1968 Chicago convention riots — and the "Chicago Seven" tried in their wake — are the subject of an unorthodox documentary.

The latest news from the BPP blog, including a slideshow of work by Jeremiah Palecek, a Prague-bases painter who recreates viral videos on canvas.

Toy designers Steve Ross and Jason Geyers uncovered a treasure trove of never released Star Wars accessories, from the Jabba the Hutt bean bag chair to the Death Star grill.