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Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently fired the city's police superintendent. Now, residents will get to have a say about who should lead the country's second-largest police department.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with wrestling writer and podcast host David Shoemaker about the upcoming WresteMania event headlined by women.

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.

For every foreign news story in 2011, there were journalists to report it. That put many journalists in dangerous situations. Guest host Jacki Lyden talks to Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists about the most dangerous places to be a journalist in 2011.

Top 100 - 2006 We only have the records for the Top 10 results of this year.Bob Dylan - Modern TimesOld Crow Medicine Show - Big Iron WorldBeck - The…

Usually around this time, Hollywood is talking about how to keep its box office momentum going. This year, January was so lackluster that studios had to jump-start moviegoing from scratch.

We got to know this supergroup-you-haven’t-yet-heard-of in 2022 with their debut, “The Very Best of Fantastic Cat.” This one’s even better! Individually, each member boasts their own impressive resume along with appearances everywhere from the New York Times and the Tiny Desk to Bonnaroo and Cayamo. NPR said Anthony D’Amato “sings and writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter.” Paste declared Don DiLego's latest album a "stunner.” Rolling Stone called Brian Dunne’s new record “the sleeper album of the year” and praised Mike Montali’s band, Hollis Brown, as “the soundtrack for a late night drive through the American heartland." As their press package says, think CSNY if none of them were famous, or The Traveling Wilburys if none of them were famous, or the Eagles if they really didn’t get along.

We’ve got three brand new cuts from some of our favorites in Americana music today. Billy Strings’ career has been on fire the past few years, and “Burn the Other End” is on his new album, produced by T-Bone Burnett, coming out August 28, which is a tribute to his late mother, So Much for Goodbyes. “Dog or Wolf” is on Ray Wylie Hubbard’s forthcoming album Reel 2 Reel 4 Real, out August 21st; it’ll be his 20th album in a career going back to the mid-70s. The Troubadours have a great new version of Robert Earl Keen’s “Feelin’ Good Again”, with help from Sierra Hull. (They’re playing in Charlotte on July 17th and Beech Mountain on the 18th, by the way!)

No album in the history of the Billboard album chart has ever had a longer gap between stints at No. 1. Elsewhere, Christmas music dominates for one last week.

Nothing says "Happy Holidays" better than 3-D goggles. Or perhaps an inflatable wetsuit for big-wave surfing. Those are two of the top gadgets of the year, according to Popular Science magazine's "100 Best Innovations" issue. To tell us a little more about some of those innovations, Editor-In-Chief Mark Jannot joins host Scott Simon.