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After surviving the bombing of Hiroshima, Ikuo Hirayama went on to turn the devastation into art, creating through his paintings a "requiem" for those who lost their lives in the war. "I believe that flowers can blossom from anguish and inhumanity," he says.

Farai Chideya talks with Newsweek national correspondent Allison Samuels about the latest Hollywood news. Today, we discuss The L.A. Times' retraction of a story on Tupac Shakur, Spike Lee's ongoing struggle to fund his movies, and Terri Vaughn's new documentary, Angels Can't Help but Laugh.

Victoria Wood wrote and starred in Housewife 49, a film that follows one woman's life amid the challenges of wartime England.

An American private eye falls in love with a mysterious French woman, but things are not what they seem.

David Simon, creator and executive producer of HBO's series The Wire, joins Fresh Air to talk about his career and the genesis of the show. Simon writes many of the episodes — and some story lines come from his former job as a police reporter for the Baltimore Sun.

Commentator David Kuo reviews the second in the series of Christ the Lord books written by Anne Rice. In The Road to Cana, Rice revels in the artistic and spiritual challenge of contextualizing a fully human Jesus. In narrative pacing and character development, Rice's Jesus is a reading revelation.

The work of America's military doctors and nurses in Iraq is recorded in Terry Sanders' documentary; there's no editorializing, admirably, though the sight of 19-year-olds having limbs amputated does raise questions about the politics of war.

This weekend the finale of the critically acclaimed urban drama The Wire airs on HBO. For 'Youth Radio's' Orlando Campbell, the series reflects what life is like in the inner city.

Jeff Deck of Boston had seen a lot of misspellings on signs around the city, and one day he couldn't take it anymore. Deck founded the Typo Eradication Advancement League and set off on a nationwide quest to repair the mistakes by any means necessary, including sticky vinyl letters.

Developed in the 1800s by West African slaves in Brazil, the art of capoeira is a complex and powerful mix of martial arts fighting, dance, music and games. Carlton Jones took part in a New York performance honoring Black History Month.