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Melanie Newman, broadcaster for the Baltimore Orioles, will handle play-by-play duties. "At some point soon, I think we're on our way to this just being a normal day in a broadcast," Newman says.

The Namesake is Mira Nair's film about an Indian-American family struggling with issues of identity. Adapted from a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri, the film stars Kal Penn and Tabu.

Laughs, musical mash-ups and a Conway Twitty cover on this episode of Cabinet. Comedian and actress Janeane Garofalo is a self-proclaimed bacon-eating vegan, but she takes a stab at the good citizens who shop at Whole Foods.

More than 6,000 original stories were submitted to this round of Three-Minute Fiction and we're on the quest to select just one winner. Until then, we'll be reading a few of the stories that catch our eyes. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz presents this week's stand out stories: Pilgrims by Catherine Carberry from Metuchen, N.J., and Fireflies, by Delia Read from Fairfax, Calif. To see these stories and others go to npr.org/threeminutefiction.

Can we take a second and just talk about a word? It might be a word that you use all the time. Or maybe you hear people use the word, and it drives you up the wall. Host Rachel Martin talks with David Haglund, an editor at Slate Magazine.

In the three decades of The Diane Rehm Show, the radio host has interviewed Nobel laureates and novelists, Supreme Court justices and presidents, movie stars and Cabinet officials. But it wasn't something she really set out to do.

Yoga isn't just for yuppies anymore. The instructors of a Portland-based organization say yoga can benefit homeless children both physically and mentally — from staying warm, to setting goals, to controlling anger.

United 93, a movie about passengers who fought for control of a hijacked plane on Sept. 11, is hard to get out of your mind, no matter how hard you try, according to Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan.

Scientists have been working to develop an airy pizza dough without yeast. Researchers in Naples, Italy say they have achieved it using a process like the one used to produce carbonation in soda.

For the first time since Russia's invaded Ukraine, there's a sign of progress towards peace. Negotiators for the two countries met in Istanbul Tuesday, with both sides outlining possible concessions.