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  • Ernie Didot and the Super Gr8 Film Festival
    Essayist Ernie Didot reflects on home movies and the power of nostalgia as presented in Harrisonburg's Super Gr8 Film Festival.Ernie Didot is a video…
  • Etta James (center) poses with Phil Chess (left), founder of Chess Records, and producer Ralph Bass in 1960.
    Remembering Etta James, Stunning Singer
    The "Matriarch of the Blues" had grit in her voice that could melt like sugar or rub like salt in a wound. The great vocalist, whose turbulent life broke through in her affecting delivery, has died at age 73.
  • Carol Channing — who turns 91 on Jan. 31 — appears in the 2010 Gypsy of the Year celebration, an annual salute to Broadway's hardest-working chorus performers.
    Carol Channing, Still Delightfully 'Larger Than Life'
    Veteran Broadway performer Carol Channing has been onstage for seven decades. A new documentary lovingly profiles the still-sharp, still-charming star of Hello, Dolly.
  • Johnny Otis (center), shown playing with his band The Johnny Otis Revue.
    Remembering Bandleader And Producer Johnny Otis
    Bandleader and producer Johnny Otis, who launched and then nurtured the careers of many of R&B's greatest singers, died Tuesday at his home near Los Angeles. He was 90. Fresh Air remembers Otis with excerpts from a 1989 interview.
  • Tears contain an enzyme that eats bacteria the way Pac-Man eats Power Pellets.
    How Tears Go 'Pac-Man' To Beat Bacteria
    Each tear you shed contains an army of enzymatic Pac-Men, ready to chase down and gobble up germs before they infect the sensitive tissues around your eye. Now scientists have found just one molecule of the germ-fighting enzyme is a potent defender.
  • One of the 400 engraved images in the Audubon set: a Common American Swan.
    Not A Record, But Audubon Set Still Sells For A Tidy $7.9 Million
    Christie's New York today auctioned off a rare set of John James Audubon's Birds of America. It didn't come close to the record $11.5 million paid for another full set of the books in 2010. But it was still a hefty price.
  • Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, also known as Kim Schmitz, in an Auckland, New Zealand, court today.
    Megaupload Is Trying To Go Back Online Even As Execs Sit In Jail
    Accused of copyright infringement and conspiracy, the file-sharing site's founder and three others are being held in a New Zealand jail. Meanwhile, the site has one webpage up and running.
  • Synthetic Windpipe Transplant Boost For Tissue Engineering
    Surgeons in Sweden replaced an American patient's cancerous windpipe with a scaffold built from nanofibers and seeded with the patient's stem cells. Lead surgeon Dr. Paolo Macchiarini discusses the procedure and the benefits of tissue-engineered synthetic organs.
  • Family, friends and admirers salute the casket of Luke Weathers, Jr., one of the original Tuskegee airmen, at his burial ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
    Late Tuskegee Airman Gets Arlington Honors As 'Red Tails' Film Opens
    A member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen was buried Friday morning, the same day that Red Tails, a film dramatizing the pilots' heroic feats, came out. During World War II, Luke Weathers Jr. "shot down two German fighter planes while escorting a damaged bomber to its base," the AP reports.
  • South Carolina Primary: Live Blog And Results
    House Speaker Newt Gingrich won easily as the wild race for the GOP nomination got even wilder.
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