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At 80, Carroll is still performing. She's released a number of CDs this year. Her latest is Live At Birdland. For many years, Carroll performed at Bemelman's Bar at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. This interview was originally broadcast on June 9, 2003.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan summarizes what critics are saying about this weekend's movie releases: the horror film re-make The Hills Have Eyes and two comedies, Failure to Launch and The Shaggy Dog.

Black. White. is a controversial new reality TV series where a black family and white family change races. Using extensive make-up, the family members go out and experience living in someone else's skin. Madeleine Brand talks to the show's executive producer and two of the show's participants about the show, which debuts Wednesday night on the F/X Network.

The legendary soul scene in Miami that had its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s is the subject of a new retrospective. Eccentric Soul: The Deep City Label the imprint that discovered Betty Wright, Paul Kelly, and Clarence "Blowfly" Reid.

Sanaa Lathan talks about her new film, Something New, and parallels between her onscreen portrayal of a harried urban professional and her real life. Something New follows the story of a Lathan's character, an attorney, who starts an unlikely romance with a white landscape architect.

Ed Gordon talks with Paola Mendoza and Michael Skolnik, co-creators of the new film, On the Outs, about three girls struggling with life in and out of juvenile detention. Mendoza also stars in the film as an incarcerated, drug-addicted young mother.

Ed Gordon talks with poet and actress Sarah Jones about her one-woman Broadway play, Bridge and Tunnel, in which she plays 14 different characters.

Actress S. Epatha Merkerson just won the triple crown of television honors: an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actor's Guild award. To many Law and Order viewers, Merkerson will always be Lt. Anita Van Buren.

CBS's new drama, The Unit, has been described as part Mission Impossible, part Desperate Housewives.

Slate contributor Seth Stevenson offers his take on what seems like the last breath of MasterCard's successful "Priceless" ad campaign, which has lasted nine years and spawned about 160 separate broadcast commercials. The new ad asks for viewers to fill in the blanks.