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Happy Apple, a jazz group that reaches out to younger audiences, was doing it long before The Bad Plus came along. The Minneapolis-based group has a new CD out, called Peace Between Our Companies. Chris Roberts of Minnesota Public Radio reports.

David Bianculli, usually Fresh Air's small-screen critic, takes a look at the long-awaited big screen adaptation of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

As a columnist for The New York Times, Frank Rich writes about the intersection of culture and news. His pieces -- often touching on politics, religion and the arts -- are a fixture of the paper's Sunday editions.

Author Judith Moore's darkly humorous and unflinching memoir recounts growing up "heavy" with an abusive mother. Moore revels in the delights of a cheeseburger, and the subtle victory of rising above her past.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new novels set in Cuba: Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban, the debut novel by Lisa Wixon, and Adios Hemingway by Cuban writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes. Translated by John King, Adios Hemingway is the latest in Fuentes' award-winning Inspector Mario Conde mysteries.

Singer-songwriter Amos Lee grew up around Philadelphia, but the former teacher and bartender's music sounds more like he came from a background of porch swings and wide-open spaces.

Robin Meloy Goldsby has spent decades making "pleasant and unobtrusive" background music as a cocktail lounge piano player. Now she steps front and center with a memoir called Piano Girl: Lessons in Life, Music, and the Perfect Blue Hawaiian.

Amy Sherman-Palladino is the creator and executive producer of Gilmore Girls a TV show on the WB network. The show is about a single mother and her daughter who are best friends. The mother was a teenager when she got pregnant with her daughter. The show is now in its fifth season. Season three is now out on DVD.

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has called for an investigation into a hidden feature of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that depicts graphic sex acts. Slate senior editor Andy Bowers explains how video games get rated.

James Doohan, who immortalized the character of chief engineer Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, died Wednesday at the age of 85. During World War II, the actor, born in Vancouver, served as a captain in the Canadian Forces and led men into battle on D-Day. He passed away at his home in Washington State.