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At just 26 years old, Hiromi is considered one of Japan's best jazz pianists and composers. Musician and Day to Day contributor David Was says her music is "part classical, part jazz and part simply unclassifiable." He reviews her third album, Spiral.

Director Malcolm Lee's new film is as much about family as it is roller skating. The film is set in the golden era of 1970s roller-skate jams, a coming-of-age comedy starring hip-hop star Bow Wow.

Don Adams, known for TV eternity as Agent 86 on the 1960s series Get Smart!, has died at age 82. Adams played Maxwell Smart, a clueless secret agent who puzzled villains and his boss with his confusing explanations and farcical combat style.

When the hit rap song "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five came out in the early 1980s, many rappers regarded it as an inspiration and political message. Melle Mel was the original vocalist on the song. (This interview originally aired August 4, 1992.)

Scores of buildings, paintings and sculptures throughout Italy are deteriorating, as state funds to preserve them lag. A nonprofit foundation is trying to shock Italians into taking responsibility for their unique art heritage.

If you want to escape the holiday fantasies in theaters for a dose of realistic dysfunction, The Family Stone may be for you. The film, starring Diane Keaton, Sarah Jessica Parker and Dermont Mulroney, is an offbeat mixture of comic crises and the bite of the real.

Music critic Sarah Bardeen rounds up a three-part review of the best new music of 2005 with her favorite CDs of the past year — a sonic stew of hip-hop, smooth Latin stylings and raw Brazilian soul.

Sarah Bardeen reviews Escape from Dragon House, a new CD from the group Dengue Fever. The six-member band fuses Cambodian pop with psychedelic rock, creating an only-in-California sound that's gaining new fans.

"Geek rap," with rhymes and references to Star Wars heroes and scientific theories, is gaining ground on the Internet. Jim Colgan reports on the trend, and talks with a few of the genre's superstars.

Literature fans looking for something beyond Oprah Winfrey's book club are discovering a new kind of club on the Internet -- Web sites that offer audio versions of books, voiced by fans and authors instead of professional voice actors.