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Cellist Tomeka Reid was headed toward a career as a classical musician, but was drawn to jazz. Critic Kevin Whitehead says her band's new album, The Tomeka Reid Quartet, has good chemistry all around.

A titanic merger in the beer industry is brewing: Anheuser-Busch InBev offered more than $104 billion to win over the board of SABMiller. The behemoth will control about a third of the globe's beer production and about 70 percent of the market in the U.S. Now the question is whether regulators will allow the merger.

University of Louisville is investigating claims that a former staffer hired escorts to have sex with basketball players and recruits. In a new book, Katina Powell claims she provided escort services to teenage recruits for four years.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Erika Solomon of the Financial Times about why it's been so challenging to disrupt the Islamic State's oil production in territory it controls in northern Syria and Iraq.

Hillary Clinton was able to maintain her status as frontrunner by leaning left of Bernie Sanders on gun control and to the right of him on socialism in the first Democratic debate of the 2016 race.

Meyer says "something fascinating and completely unfair" plagues the restaurant industry: Waiters' incomes have risen far faster than other staff. To balance salaries out, he'll charge more for food.

Once home to some of the country's strictest anti-illegal-immigration laws, Hazleton is now 40 percent Latino. The city is younger and bigger than it's been in decades, and the economy is thriving.

A newly authenticated tintype shows Billy outside a cabin holding his mallet during a casual pick up game. It's only the second photograph of the Kid ever found. It's appraised at $5 million.

Watch psych-pop singer-songwriter Garrett Borns perform live in the KCRW studio.

Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson says that the ongoing search to replace Rep. John Boehner as speaker of the House reveals the influence that 40 conservative Republicans hold in the House.