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The film Rize, which opened in theaters last weekend, documents the creators of a new style of dance from the streets of South Central Los Angeles. Frenetic and edgy, "krumping" has its roots in African dance, and is making news around the country.

George Gascón has defended his decision not to pursue a felony charge, saying the attacker had a folding knife on him but didn't use it. Gascón also says he will work on safety at performance venues.

Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard talks about his new, younger sound and his band's latest CD, Flow.

A previously unknown composition by Johann Sebastian Bach has been discovered by a classical music scholar in Germany. The two-page, handwritten aria was composed in 1713 for soprano, strings and basso continuo.

No one takes slides anymore, but Charles Phoenix collects the best of those that are left to us. He has revived the family slideshow, turning it into performance art. The Los Angeles "histotainer," as he's sometimes called, tells Madeleine Brand about his colorful window into American culture.

Ed Gordon speaks with guitarist Paul Brown, who's moved from behind the mixing board as producer to center stage as a smooth jazz front man. Brown's latest CD The City hits record stores Tuesday.

Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel, which has been made into a documentary that debuts Monday. He discusses his ideas about the rise and fall of human civilizations.

Alison Brown's new solo album, Stolen Moments, is a genre-hopping take on bluegrass. A former member of Alison Krauss's Union Station, Brown won a Grammy in 2001 for her duet with Bela Fleck, "Leaving Cottondale".

Body Worlds, a popular exhibit of preserved human corpses, was recently robbed of a 13-week-old preserved fetus while on display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. NPR's Luke Burbank reports on the theft.

Our own Day to Day technology contributor reports on Star Wars director George Lucas' new home for creating films, the Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco -- a "campus" of virtual studios at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge.