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Author Kip Stratton's new book, Chasing the Rodeo begins with his memory of the 1967 National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City. He was 12. Stratton reads from the book and shares memories of the sport with John Ydstie.

It's been 25 years since comedians Dan Akroyd and John Belushi took a skit they made popular on Saturday Night Live and turned it into a feature film. Many critics hated the Blues Brothers movie, but it made enough of an impression to lead to a sequel. And this summer's 25th anniversary brings the inevitable anniversary DVD.

Religion professor Timothy Beal piles his family into a motor home and hits the highway on a tour of religious attractions in the American South. Beal documents his journey in the book, Roadside Religion.

Provocative French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre was born 100 years ago Tuesday. Frank Browning explores Sartre's life and work, which still inspire both admiration and anger.

The G8 group of industrialized nations wipes out $40 billion in debt owed by 18 poor nations. Most are in sub-Saharan Africa. Some observers say much bigger steps are still needed. British officials will push for a larger effort at G8 talks in Scotland, coming in July.

Robin Meloy Goldsby has spent decades making "pleasant and unobtrusive" background music as a cocktail lounge piano player. Now she steps front and center with a memoir called Piano Girl: Lessons in Life, Music, and the Perfect Blue Hawaiian.

Bradford Berenson is a lawyer who served in the White House counsel's office and helped form policy on the capture and imprisonment of detainees. He argues that the Guantanamo Bay detention center should stay open.

For 15 years, a bronze sculpture in the CIA's courtyard has taunted amateur and professional code-breakers alike. Kryptos is a copper wall that features four long coded passages. The last breakthrough came six years ago.

The Senate votes 56 to 43 to confirm California Judge Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. All Republicans in the Senate supported Brown, while all but one Democrat opposed her nomination. Her nomination was brought up for a vote as part of a deal to retain the right of filibuster in the Senate.

The Senate is scheduled to vote Tuesday on Janice Rogers Brown, President Bush's nominee to serve on the federal bench. As the result of a bipartisan compromise over judicial filibusters, the nomination of the California jurist -- who had been one of the nominees Senate Democrats had threatened to filibuster -- is unlikely to be disputed.