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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.

Every year, the week of the Oscars, Brad Oltmanns and Rick Rosas, partners at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and about 12 counters go to an undisclosed location in Southern California and hand count all 6,000 ballots. It takes the team about three days to determine the Academy Award winners.

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 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.

Kicked out of prep school, over-shrunk rich kid offers counseling — and prescription antidepressants — to his new public-school peers in a makeshift office in the boys' bathroom. An improbably charming comedy.

The actor won an Academy Award for his performance in Spike Jonze's Adaptation. His latest project is Married Life, about a 1940s philanderer who still loves his wife — enough, in fact, to kill her rather than divorce and disappoint her.

At New York's College at Brockport, a little-known treasure trove of artwork by poet E.E. Cummings is in urgent need of repair. The popular poet produced more than 1,600 oil paintings, drawings and watercolors in his lifetime.

For the first time, August Wilson's famed Century Cycle — a series of 10 plays about the African-American experience — will be presented under one roof. The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., will stage the works in chronological order this month.

Artist Fritz Haeg builds homes for wild animals in urban areas with the hope of luring them back. This week his installation appears outside New York's Whitney Museum. What kind of creatures can we expect?

Director Brett Morgen joins Fresh Air's Terry Gross to discuss his new film, Chicago 10. The film mixes trial footage and animation to tell the story of the "Chicago 8" — protesters held accountable for violence that erupted with police outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968.