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City Lights, the West Coast bookstore of the Beat Generation and American alternative culture turns 50 on June 8. Commentator Andrei Codrescu offers a poem, paying homage to a San Francisco icon and to City Lights founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

If you think a deck goes on the back of your house, you're probably not a hipster. 'The Hipster Handbook' tells us 'deck' means cutting edge or cool. NPR's Madeleine Brand drops in on a New York book party to find out just what it means to be hip these days. Read clues on being a hipster and take a hipster quiz.

NPR's Melissa Block profiles FOUND magazine, an occasionally-published journal filled with found notes, photos and audio sent in from all over the nation. See some of the found items she discovered with other "finders" on a recent scavenging mission in Washington, D.C., and other ephemera from the pages of FOUND.

Hours after the team's announcement of its independent investigation, the NFL said the team "would not control the probe."

Barbra Streisand dropped singing lessons at an early age and never learned to read music. But that didn't stop her from being one of the best-selling female singers in history. In an interview with NPR's Susan Stamberg, the acclaimed singer and actress discusses her love of music and the release of her 60th album, a collection of songs from the big screen. Hear an extended version of their discussion and samples from The Movie Album.

David Printis remembers how much fun learning was while watching Saturday morning television's Schoolhouse Rock (remember "Zero, My Hero" and "Conjunction Junction?"). Now with three kids of his own, "and lots of homework," the music producer has introduced Multiplication Hip Hop, educational sing-along music for a new generation. Hear the "One Tables" and other selections.

Wenlan Chia isn't as big a name as Anne Klein, Perry Ellis or Bill Blass, but the up-and-coming designer known as Twinkle is getting a chance to show her new collection alongside them in New York this week. Her story is the first of a week-long Morning Edition series looking behind the scenes of the style industry.

Gods and Generals arrives in theaters. It's a film based on novelist Jeff Shaara's inner look at key Civil War figures in the early years of the conflict. Director Ron Maxwell also handled Gettysburg. That film was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels, written by Shaara's father Michael. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a review.

On the eve of the annual Grammy presentations, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences seeks to recover from the departure of a scandal-plagued president. And the music industry confronts a steep decline in CD sales. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and Eric Boehlert of Salon.com.

She wasn't quite in a league of her own, but 50 years ago Mamie "Peanut" Johnson was among just a handful of women to play in the Negro Leagues of baseball. In an interview with NPR's Bob Edwards, Johnson says her rejection by a white women's team was the best thing that could have happened to her career.