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Hiroshima Maiden is the name of a theater work based on the experiences of a group of women disfigured by the atomic bomb. To help raise money for reconstructive surgery in New York, two of the women and their sponsor appeared on an episode of the old TV show This Is Your Life. One of the guests was the co-pilot of the Enola Gay.

Josh Roseman is a young trombonist who appreciates music with a groove. His band, the Josh Roseman Unit, has a new CD called Treats for the Nightwalker that blends styles of jazz, from funk to progressive. Music critic Jim Fusilli has a review.

In 1928, violinist Louis Kaufman became the first person to buy a painting by Milton Avery. A year later, The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., became the first museum to acquire a work by Avery. NPR's Susan Stamberg reports on a new exhibit at the Phillips that celebrates the long friendship between the two artists. See paintings and photos from the show.

The Return, a new Russian-language film, tells the story of two brothers whose prodigal father returns unexpectedly after more than a decade. The intense family drama marks the feature-directing debut of 40-year-old former actor Andrei Zvyagintsev. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.

Sid Couchey was a "factory artist" in the 1950s. Like many others, he worked in relative obscurity, churning out drawings for comic books. He didn't create the characters, but Couchey's pencil work for Harvey Comics included scads of drawings that made Richie Rich and Little Lotta famous. Hear Brian Mann of North Country Public Radio.

Before Frank Sinatra sang "My Way" into the American musical lexicon, a French singer-songwriter had his own version of the ballad. Twenty-five years after his death, Claude Francois is still drawing fans to his former home, which has been turned into a museum. NPR's Nick Spicer reports.

Filipino poet Nick Carbó grew up in Manila, surrounded by American pop culture. He now writes about the oddness of being Asian in America. For Intersections, a Morning Edition series about artists and their inspirations, Carbó describes how John Wayne and other U.S. cultural icons helped shape his witty, often subversive point of view.

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Stephen Webber, Berklee College of Music professor and author of Turntable Technique: The Art of the DJ. Webber teaches students to use the turntable as a musical instrument in a class he says is the first of its kind at a college of music. Webber demonstrates DJ techniques -- scratching, juggling beats and crabbing -- using turntables and a mixer.

NPR's Michele Norris talks with David Evans, editor of Air Safety Week, about methods of investigating airline disasters, and NOVA's documentary Crash of Flight 111, which airs tonight on PBS. The program describes the events -- and investigation into -- the crash of an airliner off Nova Scotia that killed 229 people in 1998.

The Village Voice releases its annual Pazz & Jop poll, which surveys the nation's rock critics on the best new music. Over the last three decades, the poll has developed a reputation for spotting emerging talent overlooked by the Grammys. NPR's Bob Edwards discusses this year's survey results with Village Voice music editor Robert Christgau.