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Singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell has been personally and professionally linked to some of country music's biggest stars. He's written songs for Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris, and he's the former son-in-law of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Crowell talks to NPR's John Ydstie about his introspective new album Fate's Right Hand.

Director Wolfgang Becker's Goodbye, Lenin, follows the efforts of a young man who transforms his family's apartment into an island of the past on doctor's orders. The time-capsule measures are meant to shield his socialist mother -- recently recovered from a coma -- from traumatic events. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Becker.

Aristide Supporters March in Haiti Supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide march peacefully through the streets of Haiti's capital. Port-au-Prince is calmer after a day of looting and unrest. But rebels are still pondering an attack and the political standoff is leaving Aristide increasingly isolated. NPR's Gerry Hadden reports.

As Sunday night's Oscar awards approach, we unearth a gem from the Lost and Found Sound archives from 1977 -- a home recording of 5-year-old Sofia Coppola, nominated for best director for Lost in Translation. Coppola is being interviewed by her father, Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola, who asks his daughter to talk to her future adult self.

The martyrdom of Imam Hussein -- the central passion play for Shia Muslims -- is being portrayed on stage for the first time. Hussein as Revolutionary and Martyr has powerful religious and political significance in Iraq's changing political landscape. NPR's Deborah Amos reports.

Nonagenarian political activist Doris Haddock, better known to NPR listeners as Granny D, is still at it. Her core issue is now voter registration, but campaign finance reform remains close to her heart.

Senate investigators looking into pre-war intelligence failures are taking a closer look at the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans. Pentagon officials say the office was a policy-planning group. Critics say it was created to second-guess CIA intelligence on Iraq. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports.

The new film Kitchen Stories opens in New York and Los Angeles theaters Friday. It's a Swedish-language film, but critics say its comic look at a Swedish study on kitchen efficiency will translate into any language. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.

Sen. John Kerry celebrates his near-sweep of the 10 presidential contests Tuesday, with some 1,100 delegates at stake. Kerry thanked his supporters -- as well as his rival, Sen. John Edwards. Edwards, who earlier complimented Kerry on his victory, will reportedly drop out of the race Wednesday. Hear Kerry, NPR's Melissa Block and NPR's Scott Horsley.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visits the Iraqi capital, arriving shortly after another suicide bombing in northern Iraq. The attacker killed himself and at least 10 others when he detonated explosives in a car outside a police station in the northern city of Kirkuk. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Ivan Watson.