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It's the annual high-stakes fashion soiree is a major money-maker for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute and an opportunity for mega-wattage stars and influencers to turn out in style.

Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews the new recording by tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson and drummer Hamid Drake. It's called Back Together Again.

NPR's Tony Cox sits down with internationally renowned flutist Hubert Laws for a conversation about his expansive music career and latest CD, Moondance, which blends classical and jazz vibes.

What are the various strategies behind presidential advertisements targeted to potential voters of color? NPR's Tavis Smiley gets answers from David Axelrod, a Chicago-based media strategist, and William Benoit, the author of Seeing Spots : A Functional Analysis of Presidential Television Advertisements.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead pays tribute to Fats Waller on the centennial of his birth, and reviews Fats Waller: The Centennial Collection, a CD and DVD.

Composer Stephen Schwartz has provided the music and lyrics for Broadway hits from Godspell to his latest, Wicked. He discusses the patchwork of artistic influences, from Beethoven to Sting, that have influenced his popular, emotionally powerful style. NPR's Neva Grant reports.

Tough-guy cop Lucas Davenport returns in John Sandford's latest thriller: Hidden Prey. The author speaks with NPR's Linda Wertheimer about his hard-boiled detective, who seems to be a little older and wiser in his 16th outing.

Pulitzer prize-winning author Jane Smiley's nonfiction book A Year at the Races chronicles her lifelong love affair with horses and the race tracks where they battle to the wire.

Fifty years ago, Roger Bannister ran the world's first mile under four minutes. Just six weeks later, John Landy broke Bannister's record, setting up a face-off between the world's first two men to achieve that long-elusive goal. Read an excerpt from The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb.

Independent producer Julian Crandall Hollick continues his three-part audio portrait of modern India with an inspiring profile of Calcutta's tiny Ram Bhagan slum. The community has thrived on the skills of its native musicians, painters and craftsmen.