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In Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times, Don and Petie Kladstrup offer the history of a New Year's Eve staple that had rather inauspicious beginnings.

KT Tunstall is a one-woman band, literally. She plays and sings the multiple parts of her songs while using a machine to loop them in real time, making for a performance style that lends her songs an extra rawness.

Scientists have pieced together the virus that caused the deaths of tens of millions of people in the 1918 flu pandemic. The work is providing new insights into how a strain of flu can become so lethal.

German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer's new documentary features Evelyn Glennie, a deaf percussionist. The director says that just as Glennie feels the sound, he wants his viewers to see it.

In an exclusive interview with Nina Totenberg, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer discusses his new book on democracy and the Constitution.

A terrorist attack on the Indonesian island of Bali kills at least 25 people. The blasts hit almost three years to the day after bombs killed more than 200 people in Bali. Indonesia's president had recently warned of a looming threat.

Commentator Zoe Walrand sat in a recent showing of King Kong recently and was shocked that a parent would bring a young child to see such a violent film. She decided to do something about it.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are the champions of the National Football League. Their 21-10 win over the Seattle Seahawks Sunday was the fifth Super Bowl victory for the franchise, but the first in a quarter-century.

The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, forced many Americans to reshape their lives. For New Yorkers whose plans and priorities were cast loose, the shocking losses were followed by a challenge: what to do next. That dilemma is at the heart of Jay McInerney's The Good Life.

Like Sundance, it turns 25 this year and promotes independent films. But that's where the similarities end for the Black Maria Film & Video Festival, which takes short, often experimental films on the road across America.