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Have a cocktail. Why? Because Juan Garcia Esquivel is back... after a fashion. True, he died in 2002. But the man who practically invented 1950s lounge music — then led a resurgence in the 1990s — is being rediscovered on a CD called The Sights and Sounds of Esquivel!.

News & Notes profiles a tap dance prodigy with a unique approach combining dance with music, a classical flute player and an athlete who's also a student leader.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Fiona Apple's third album, Extraordinary Machine.

Music critic Milo Miles tells us about Joe Strummer's pre-Clash band, The 101'ers. Strummer went on to fame as the lead singer of the seminal punk band The Clash. Elgin Avenue Breakdown Revisited is the reissued 101'ers album in stores now.

English playwright Harold Pinter is awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of plays such as The Birthday Party and The Caretaker. Pinter has earned his own adjective, "Pinteresque," which refers to his use of spare dialogue and banal settings to create a sense of dread and implied violence in everyday relationships.

John Brady reviews In the Reins, a seven-song collaboration between soft-voiced Florida folk singer Sam Beam, who records under the name Iron and Wine, and the band Calexico — border rockers from Tucson, Ariz., known for their eclectic tastes.

Director/producer Nick Park is the three-time Academy Award-winning creator of the much-loved animated British characters Wallace and Gromit. His newest film, Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, is now in theaters.

Commentator Leroy Sievers, a former Nightline producer, says Steven Bochco's new TV drama about the frontlines in Iraq raises an important question: Can a fictional account of war do a more effective job of showing the public the realties of life for soldiers and Iraqi civilians than the news can?

JC Hopkins and Queen Esther talk about their new album, Under a Brooklyn Moon. The JC Hopkins Biggish Band does, indeed, hark back to big band and other, earlier forms of jazz.

Bill Murray and his deadpan delivery star in a Jim Jarmusch film about an aging Don Juan who learns a 19-year-old son he has never met is looking for him. A strong cast offers support.