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This is the third stopgap spending bill to keep the federal government afloat since October.

Rock historian Ed Ward tells us about Philadelphia's Cameo and Parkway record labels. From the late 1950s to the late-'60s, their hits included "The Twist," "South Street" and "Bristol Stomp." ABKCO Records has just released a Cameo-Parkway four-CD retrospective.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Triplicity, from tenor saxophone player Bob Feldman.

Alex Chadwick chats with legendary comedian, writer and actor Bob Newhart, who will be profiled in a career retrospective airing Wednesday night on PBS.

Tim Story directed just two feature films before he landed the plum assignment to take on Fantastic Four The thirty-something director talks about growing up in Los Angeles and creating his first movies when he was 12 years old.

Critic Ken Tucker reviews Little Fugitive, the new CD from Amy Rigby.

NPR's Bob Mondello reviews Jim Jarmusch's new movie Broken Flowers. It stars Bill Murray, who plays a modern Don Juan.

A Memphis pimp with a midlife crisis tries to make it as a rapper in Hustle & Flow, a film featuring the prodigious acting talents of Terrence Howard. He spent nearly two years researching a role that he initially did not want to accept.

New Orleans native Harry Connick Jr. first made his mark as a musical prodigy, recording his first songs at age 9. He has returned to New Orleans to lend a helping hand with hurricane relief. (This interview was first broadcast on June 21, 1988.)

The new documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till revisits the events leading to the 14-year-old's lynching in Mississippi 50 years ago. Director Keith Beauchamp and Till's cousin, Simeon Wright, tell Ed Gordon about the film.