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Heard described a chaotic and violent night in 2015, during which she alleges Depp sexually assaulted her.

NPR's Tavis Smiley talks to Victor Goines, the renowned saxophonist and clarinetist. Goines is also director of the Institute for Jazz Studies at the Juilliard School in New York, and has collaborated on a benefit CD for the school, Flowers for Juilli.

Laugh yourself into the weekend with featured comedian David Arnold.

Commentator Connie Rice is back with another top-10 list. This week, she tells NPR's Tavis Smiley about the top-10 "unreality" shows Hollywood should snap up right now.

Avenue Q, an adult musical featuring naughty puppets, wins the prize for best new musical at Sunday night's Tony Awards. In a major upset, Idina Menzel -- who plays the green-skinned Elphaba in Wicked, a retelling of the Wizard of Oz -- wins in the toughest race of the night, best actress in a musical. Phylicia Rashad becomes the first African American to win best actress in a play for her role in a A Raisin in the Sun. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep.

He's been acting since he was a child. Culkin first attracted attention as John Candy's inquisitive nephew in the John Hughes film, Uncle Buck. The film Home Alone turned him into a star. He also made the films Home Alone II, Jacob's Ladder, and most recently Party Monster. Recently he returned to acting after a 6-year hiatus. His latest film is Saved! He plays a high school student in a wheelchair attending an evangelical Christian High School, whose friends are all outsiders. The film has been described as part religious satire, and part teenage rite of passage film.

Rapper Kidd Creole, who was a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death on a New York City street.

Producers Jonathan Menjivar and Barrett Golding offer this portrait of the Chicago protest group known as the Pink Bloque -- a group of college kids who got tired of staging demonstrations in the usual way, and re-invented the art of the protest. This report is part of the series Chicago Matters: Our Next Generation from member station WBEZ.

Day to Day television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews Alf's Hit Talk Show -- a new talk show hosted by the loveable (and some might say, mostly forgotten) 1980s alien puppet.

NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates compares the remake of the 1966 British film Alfie to the original, and speaks with Charles Shyer, the new film's director.