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Producers Jonathan Menjivar and Barrett Golding offer this portrait of the Chicago protest group known as the Pink Bloque -- a group of college kids who got tired of staging demonstrations in the usual way, and re-invented the art of the protest. This report is part of the series Chicago Matters: Our Next Generation from member station WBEZ.

From passports and furniture to self-portraits, hundreds of items owned by the late actress Katharine Hepburn are up for auction this week at Sotheby's in New York. The mementos and keepsakes offer a glimpse into the private life of one of America's greatest actresses. NPR's Margot Adler reports.

Slate advertising critic Seth Stevenson reviews the new AT&T ad campaign, and argues that the campaign only punctuates how out of touch the communications giant really is when it comes to consumer preferences and the company's image.

The group Magnetic Fields' latest release is called I. Fans of the band say that even though the lead singer sounds like a moping adolescent, the songwriting is sophisticated. Critic Tom Moon has a review.

Commentator Connie Rice is back with another top-10 list. This week, she tells NPR's Tavis Smiley about the top-10 "unreality" shows Hollywood should snap up right now.

Father Gregory Boyle, a Jesuit priest, has worked to find jobs for former gang members in Los Angeles for nearly 20 years. A book about Boyle's work, G-Dog and the Homeboys, is just out in paperback. This interview was originally broadcast on Feb. 17, 2004. We speak with Boyle by phone for an update.

Alan Cheuse reviews The Curse of the Appropriate Man by South African expatriate writer Lynn Freed. The book is a collection of short fiction, with mostly Jewish South African female characters.

Slate contributor Seth Stevenson reviews the latest ad campaign for Old Spice, the old fragrance giant that's hoping to appeal to a younger crowd.

A new detective film has taken Hong Kong by storm. Now Infernal Affairs, an interlocked story of police undercover work targeting gangs, is opening in the United States. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review.

For hundreds of years, only scholars and museum curators have had access to the "Quartos," the earliest printed editions of Shakespeare's plays. But the British Library has just put 93 Quartos on the Internet, leading to what NPR's Bob Mondello says is much ado about Shakespeare on the Web.

We talk with an editor from Encarta Webster's Dictionary of the English Language about new words that are being added to the dictionary.

Day to Day and San Francisco Chronicle book reviewer David Kipen offers his critique of America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction from political satirist Jon Stewart and the writers behind The Daily Show.

He's the founder of the Newport Folk Festival, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival, which turns 50 this year. A new three-CD set, Happy Birthday Newport: 50 Swinging Years, celebrates the milestone. In the early 1950s, Wein founded the jazz clubs Storyville and Mahogany Hall in his hometown of Boston, where jazz giants Art Tatum, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz and Miles Davis played. In 1954 he launched the Newport Jazz Festival, where he presented Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Dave Brubeck and others. The other music greats he knew and worked with: Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong. Last year, Wein published his autobiography, Myself Among Others: A Life In Music.

NPR's Scott Simon takes note of the fact that the Archbishop of Canterbury may appear as a guest voice on the animated Fox comedy The Simpsons.

Maureen Corrigan looks at Hatchet Jobs, a collection of criticism by Dale Peck, book reviewer for The New Republic.

Trombone choirs have been a mainstay of American music for nearly 250 years. In recent times they've been popular with music majors in colleges. Reporter Jon Kalish looks at a brass collective that has been emanating from a Harlem church for the past 40 years.

In the latest Politically Speaking column, NPR Correspondent Peter Overby examines the latest controversy over Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 -- whether the hit film is subject to federal campaign rules.

NPR's Tavis Smiley checks in with tech guru Omar Wasow of Blackplanet.com about cool tech toys for the summer. Among the new items: waterproof digital cameras for the beach and soaker-style water toys for the kids, including a water-powered rocket.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Gary Levin from Bedminster, N.J. He listens to Weekend Edition Sunday on member station WHYY in Philadelphia.)

Dangerfield made a comedic career out of his phrase "I don't get no respect." Now 82 years old, he has a new book, Rodney Dangerfield: It's Not Easy Bein' Me.

The "battle of the beers" between Budweiser and Miller is becoming an expensive and bruising campaign. The two brewing giants are facing off in a series of competing television commercials -- Slate advertising critic Seth Stevenson weighs in on the contest.

Meredith Ochs reviews the new album released by Memphis-based musician Scott Bomar. He jams with some of soul's legendary musicians, musicians well known for their work on the Stax/Volt record labels. The Bo-Keys CD is called The Royal Sessions.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports that a National Hip-Hop Political Convention in New Jersey hopes to create a political platform for the hip-hop community and encourage people to vote.

On day three of our week-long motivational series, NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with best-selling author and spiritual life counselor Iyanla Vanzant.

In the final installment of our bi-annual motivation series, NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with best-selling author and financial consultant Dennis Kimbro.