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We learn about caves from journalist and caver Michael Ray Taylor. His new book is called Caves: Exploring Hidden Realms (National Geographic Society). He is also the author of the creative nonfiction works DARK LIFE (Scribner 1999) and CAVE PASSAGES (Scribner 1996). He has written for the Discovery Channel Online, Audubon, Sports Illustrated, Reader's Digest, and many other magazines. He'll talk about the geology of underwater caves and ice caves, and the secret microbial life flourishing in caves.

Pete Hamill, a legendary newspaperman, died Wednesday in his hometown of New York City of heart and kidney failure after a fall on Saturday. He was 85.

Writer-comedian Mark McKinney could watch Hayao Miyazaki's anime film My Neighbor Totoro a million times. "It still makes me laugh, it still makes me smile," he says.

Writer Alec Wilkinson is the author of new memoir, My Mentor: A Young Man's Friendship with William Maxwell (Houghton Mifflin) about his relationship with writer and editor William Maxwell. Maxwell was fiction editor for the New Yorker from 1936-1976 and worked with such authors as J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, John Updike, Eudora Welty and scores of others. Maxwell was the author of a number of novels, including Time Will Darken It, and So Long, See You Tomorrow, as well as several short story collections. He died at the age of 91 in August 2000. Wilkinson is a staff writer for the New Yorker, and has been there since 1980. He's the author of several books including, Midnights, Moonshine, and Big Sugar. We'll listen to a rebroadcast of a 1995 interview with Maxwell (3/29/95), and to an interview with Alec Wilkinson shortly after Maxwell's death (8/4/2000).

This week, we make a triumphant return to the Bay Area, with the help of Ear Hustle's Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor. We ask them three questions about rodeos, or Steer Hustles.

Gordon is a sports journalist and Bonner is a specialist on North Korea. They collaborated on the documentary The Game of Their Lives about the most shocking upset in World Cup History: It was July 19, 1966, and the scrappy underdog North Korean team beat the favored Italians, whose players were some of the finest in the world. Later the Korean team lost in the quarterfinals to Portugal. Then the players returned home and disappeared from view. After years of effort, Gordon and Bonner were given permission to enter North Korea and to interview the seven surviving members of the North Korean team. The documentary has been on tour and can be seen in Chicago, March 5th, and at the San Francisco International Asian American film Festival (Mar 8, 10 and 15th).

With a musical career that spans nearly half a century, Stephen Stills can be counted among rock's most enduring and vital icons. Stills possesses a highly melodic vocal and guitar style that has endeared him to millions of folk, rock and pop fans around the world.

Startling as it may seem to outsiders, the housing market in New Orleans is alive. The city's biggest residential brokerage firm reports that signed contracts on properties are up compared to last year at the same time.

When Sonic Youth began in 1981, the critical and commercial success they would achieve was unimaginable. Though it began as an experiment in guitar noise and feedback, the group has cemented its legacy as one of the most important acts of its era.

Of all the big names to emerge from the Twin Cities music scene in the '80s, Soul Asylum is among the few that have weathered the test of time. With a career spanning more than two decades, the group has had plenty of time to hone its hook-filled alternative rock.