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Music has played an important role in the Gulf region and the Mississippi delta, often elaborating on stories of natural and man-made disasters. The music has borne testament to upheaval over the centuries.

At Sunday night's Emmy awards, the retired sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond won for best comedy series and new hit Lost won for best drama.

His memoir is The Good, the Bad, and Me. Wallach's long career on stage and screen, included spaghetti westerns of the '60s and the Godfather trilogy. He won a Tony for his role in Tennessee Williams' Rose Tattoo. (This interview was initially broadcast on Nov. 13, 1990.)

Heard It on the X, the new album by Grammy winners Los Super 7, celebrates the golden age of radio along the U.S.-Mexico border.

'Moms' are a lot easier to find in American society today than 'mothers.' Robert Siegel talks with Asif Agha, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, about how the decline of 'mother' can be traced to the extension of adolescence.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Alex Gibney's award-winning documentary, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Gibney adapted a book that chronicles the fantastic rise and demise of the company that was engulfed in scandal when its outrageous accounting practices were exposed.

Scott Simon talks with Amanda Gotera, a senior in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She's a recipient of the Scholastic Publishing Company's Annual Writing Awards, and reads from some of her work.

As the frontwoman for the fiercely independent Colombian rock band Aterciopilados, Andrea Echeverri has spent a decade as a Madonna-like agent of change, expanding the possibilities for women in Latin music. She now continues that work away from the band with her self-titled solo debut, which was inspired by the birth of her daughter Milagros. Tom Moon has a review.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Kingdom of Heaven. Gladiator director Ridley Scott's take on the Crusades features actor Orlando Bloom as a young blacksmith who saves the people of Jerusalem.

In January 1856, fugitive slave Margaret Garner killed her infant daughter with a butcher knife rather than see her returned to bondage. Toni Morrison turned the story into the novel Beloved, and has now written an opera, Margaret Garner, which debuts Saturday. Detroit Public Radio's Celeste Headlee reports.