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Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Vertical Limit starring Scott Glenn and Chris O'Donnell. The movie's about the rescue of a team of climbers who're stranded on the temperamental Himalayan peak known as K2, and was inspired in part by the book "Into Thin Air."

NPR's Alex Chadwick recently talked with voters at the Arkansas State Fair about the presidential election. The conversations that result reveal the width and breadth of the American electorate. Chadwick's report is part of a larger PBS NPR election special called Time to Choose: A Voter's Guide. The program airs tonight on select PBS and NPR stations. (3:37-3:42).

"Saturday Night Live" once aired a rock industry spoof where a producer, played by Christopher Walken, wanted to deliver "more cowbell" to a song being recorded. Storyteller Mitch Myers thinks that there is something to the cowbell in rock music that does go beyond the music.

Several commercials have been excluded from airing during the Super Bowl this year after they were deemed inappropriate. Commentator James Poniewozik says that this means that people are going to have to watch the game for entertainment.

Jazz pianist and composer Dave Burrell was an important part of the free jazz scene of the 1960s. He now performs with his Full-Blown Trio, and they have a new album called Expansion.

Akin Fernandez's obsession with "numbers stations" — broadcasts of seemingly random numbers sequences that still remain officially a mystery — led to a CD set compiling off-air recordings. It's become a cult hit. Matt Cowan reports.

In 1978, New Jersey legalized gambling and the seaside resort town of Atlantic City took off. In the first of two reports -- the second airs Sunday -- NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on how gambling has changed the world-famous boardwalk.

A special 11-part weekly series, airing Fridays on Morning Edition, highlights the creation of the American musical traditions that give this country its own unique sound. In the second part, NPR's Paul Brown reports on the origins of the country guitar and how an instrument of the upper crust made it to the hills.

The U.S. military searches near Karbala for the pilot of a jet fighter shot down by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile. And the Pentagon is probing conflicting reports on the fate of a downed Black Hawk helicopter crew. Hear NPR's Nick Spicer.

As a child, commentator Andrew Lam fled Vietnam with his family. He returned for a visit a year ago -- and found that at least one thing felt unchanged, even after almost 30 years. Andrew Lam lives in San Francisco. The documentary, My Journey Home, airs on PBS stations April 7.