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Ernest Hemingway's last home was in Ketchum, Idaho, near Sun Valley. That's where the literary and cultural icon took his own life with a shotgun 44 years ago. Today, the house is the object of a dispute over whether it should be open to the public.

Alta Ripa, or the "High River Bank," is an ancient name for the German city of Hanover. The European Baroque group Musica Alta Ripa got their start there in 1984, but they're just making their U.S. radio debut now, on Performance Today.

Liev Schreiber stars as the real-estate salesman Ricky Roma in a production of Glengarry Glen Ross showered with Tony nominations. Schreiber, Alan Alda and Gordon Clapp are all nominated for best actor.

The three young musicians in Nickel Creek are known for their polished traditional bluegrass. But a new CD, Why Should the Fire Die?, takes a darker turn. Sean Watkins, Chris Thile and Sara Watkins visit with Debbie Elliott and play some of their music.

The trio of musicians behind the CD Toto Bona Lokua did something almost unheard of in today's world of over-produced recordings: they improvised.

Berlin's controversial memorial to the Jews who died in the Holocaust is open to the public after years of controversy over its design. The first visitors Thursday shared their impressions on whether the memorial is too abstract. Some of them said it has the disorienting effect and helpless feeling that its architect tried to achieve.

Alex Chadwick talks with Slate contributor Edmund Levin about his exploration of a famous moment involving fine literature and fine pastry. The madeleine -- a delicate cookie -- was featured in Marcel Proust's literary masterwork, Remembrance of Things Past.

Many people first encountered actress Carrie Fisher as a faded holograph image beamed from the R2-D2 unit in 1977's Star Wars. Since then, the apparition known as Princess Leia has become a dominant cultural image. Fisher remembers some choice lines in a 2004 interview with Fresh Air.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews director Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter. The complex political thriller, which stars Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, is the first movie the United Nations has ever allowed to film at its headquarters in New York.

Had he lived, the great jazz bassist Charles Mingus would have been 83 years old today. We mark the occasion with musical memories.