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Day to Day music and lifestyle critic David Was talks about legendary independent jazz label Contemporary Records, and the label's new CD box set of jazz from California.

NPR presents "The Man and His Music," a special two-hour edition of Jazz Profiles, plus on-demand audio of the swinging Count Basie Centennial Concert featuring the Jon Faddis All-Stars and recorded live at the 2004 Caramoor Festival in Katonah, N.Y.

Ninety years ago this summer, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo igniting the First World War. NPR's Neal Conan and guests discuss a spate of new books that consider the origins, myths and lessons of the First World War.

College freshmen get a chance to meet future classmates before reaching campus thanks to a new Web site. Started by Harvard underclassmen, thefacebook.com has spread to 70 colleges.

Writer Calvin Trillin is crafting small poems about the proceedings of the Democratic National Convention each day this week. Today, he takes stock of Teresa Heinz Kerry, John Kerry's wife. Trillin's latest book is Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme, published by Random House.

This Los Angeles-based group mixes Latin, hip-hop, funk, jazz and Middle Eastern elements to create a sound that reflects the band's own multi-ethnic makeup. The latest Ozomatli CD is titled Street Signs.

Opening a week of performances and conversations from La Jolla SummerFest 2004, a quartet featuring SummerFest Artistic Director Cho-Liang (Jimmy) Lin performs two of the "Alleged Dances" by John Adams.

Some of the most stirring musical work of the past half century was produced by a recording engineer Tom Dowd. His story is told in the documentary Tom Dowd & The Language of Music. Director Mark Moorman speaks with NPR's Liane Hansen.

His new film is The Bourne Supremacy, the sequel to his 2002 thriller The Bourne Identity, about a CIA assassin with amnesia. Damon has been in many hit films, including The Talented Mr. Ripley, Saving Private Ryan and Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with close friend Ben Affleck. (Rebroadcast From June 19, 2002.)

The new HBO show stars Colin Firth as Michael Peterson, the writer who was convicted of his wife Kathleen's murder.