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Day to Day television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews the Bravo network's new reality show, Being Bobby Brown. The program follows 80s R&B star Bobby Brown and his wife, Whitney Houston.

Sipping whiskey and flashing arm tattoos, R&B singer Toni Price performs at a small club in Austin in a weekly ritual called Hippie Hour. NPR's John Burnett has Price's story.

For the first time in history, all 10 acts on the "Billboard Top 10" are black. Nine of the 10 are rap acts, and the top spot is held by Pop/R&B songstress Beyonce and Dancehall Reggae star Sean Paul.

Democrat Anthony Foxx is the next mayor of Charlotte. With all 169 precincts reporting, Foxx won 51.3 percent of the vote to defeat Republican John…

The modern-day jazz singer gives KCRW a taste of his new R&B-oriented album, Love In A Time Of Madness.

Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan lists her favorite books of 2005, including novels by Mary Gaitskill and Kazuo Ishiguro, and memoirs by Joan Didion and J.R. Moehringer.

-N-P-R's David Welna reports on the "health tourism" industry that draws foreign patients to Cuba for specialized and often expensive medical treatments not available outside Cuba. David speaks with doctors in the United States and Cuba about the treatments and the controversy surrounding them.

P-R's Eric Weiner (WINE-er) reports from ersualem where thousands of Christian pilgrims have gathered to commemorate hrist's crucifixion and ressurection. He also looks at the continuing debate bout where exactly in Jerusalem the crucifixion took place.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's news, including Bill Cosby, President Bill Clinton, White House Special Counsel Lanny Davis, Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) and Don Beebe of the Green Bay Packers.

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Children's horror author R.L. Stine is wildly popular with schoolchildren...and a popular target of parents, who want his books off the shelves of elementary school libraries. John Biewen of Minnesota Public Radio reports on a debate that illustrates what some see as a gray zone between selection...and censorship.

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A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's news, including audio from the National Weather Service hotline in North Dakota; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga); and President Bill Clinton.

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- Host Brooke Gladstone speaks with N-P-R's Andy Bowers about the latest plan for peace in the separatist Russian republic of Chechnya. Earlier, Russian security chief Alexander Lebed announced that the war between Russia and Chechnya was over. This was after he bartered an agreement with Chechen officials not to seek independence for five years.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Washington Post reporter T.R. Reid about why the world loves caffeine. His article and a photo essay on the subject appear in this month's National Geographic Magazine.

NPR's Tavis Smiley speaks with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) about the approaching elections, the composition of the U.S. House and Senate and recent ethics violations brought against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX).