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A 1973 documentary focused on Grey Gardens, a rundown mansion where two eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis lived. Now there's an off-Broadway musical based on the film. The show's creators talk about the production.

One of the Broadway season's most anticipated productions, a revival of The Threepenny Opera, opens with a high-profile cast. Almost 80 years after its Berlin premiere, the Brecht-Weill cabaret musical retains the power to shock and surprise.

Tom Marzolf, president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, keeps two books within easy reach. The Bible is one. Golf Architecture, by course design pioneer Alistair MacKenzie, is another. Marzolf tells Liane Hansen what else he enjoys reading.

The suspect is no longer a threat to the community, officials say. Multiple federal agencies, including the FBI and ATF, have responded to assist local police.

Wednesday markets the 50th anniversary of the start of the Freedom Rides, when an integrated group of Civil Rights activists rode together by bus through the deep South challenging integration. Historian Raymond Arsenault recounts their journey in Freedom Riders.

In early 20th century Chicago, the Everleigh Club was the country's most famous brothel. Sisters Minna and Ada Everleigh welcomed prominent clientele and treated their "girls" like queens. But it didn't last.

Amer draws on his Palestinian and Texan roots in his Netflix series, Mo. John Powers reviews documentary, Three Minutes. Holes played a critical role in identifying the so-called Golden State Killer.

Noted authors like Toni Morrison, James Baldwin or Alice Walker tend to be spotlighted during Black History Month. This year, Traci Thomas of "The Stacks" podcast shares some new voices.

Leo Schofield was newly married to 18-year-old Michelle Schofield when she was found stabbed to death in 1987.

NPR's Alix Spiegel, co-host of the podcast and program Invisibilia, tells the story of a robbery that was halted when a woman decided to respond to the threat in an unexpected way — with kindness.