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Steve Inskeep speaks with Linda Holmes, who writes for NPR's pop culture and entertainment blog, Monkey See. She's in London and watched the royal wedding with crowds about a block from Westminster Abbey.

Tornadoes and storms ripped through the South this week, killing hundreds of residents. In this "Faith Matters" segment, host Michel Martin speaks with Rev. Schmitt Moore, the pastor at Bethel Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, Ala., about the devastation his parish is facing and how faith is involved in the recovery effort.

Residents of Tuscaloosa, which was devastated by tornadoes, salvaged what they could as President Obama and the first lady visited.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels' decision to ban state funding for Planned Parenthood will increase speculation that he plans a White House run. It could help him in the early primaries where social conservatives play a big role but hurt him in a general election.

News and notes from around the web, including New Orleans Jazz Fest, the O'Farrills, jazz myths busted, a jazz opera, a jazz musical, Wynton in 1986, the Moutin Brothers, Guillermo Klein, Darius Jones, David Baker and the history of jazz for iPad.

Tracy Marrow, better known as Ice-T, is a man of many faces: platinum-selling hip-hop artist, a former thief and pimp, and now actor on the television drama "Law & Order: SVU." Host Michel Martin speaks with Ice-T about his life and new memoir Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption from South Central to Hollywood.

The veteran journalist's new novel takes place in an old-school print newsroom, not unlike the one where he worked. Hamill, a longtime columnist, reflects on changes in the news industry, and explains how columnists of his day differed from today's media bloggers.

In the photo, the secretary of state had her hand over her mouth. She said it might have been because of allergies.

Lots of big names are back in paperback form this week: There are two new dystopian novels from Bret Easton Ellis and Gary Shteyngart, and memoirs from Keith Richards, Marlo Thomas and rising humorist Sloane Crosley.

In the wake of the killing of al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, it is becoming clearer that while the Sept. 11 attacks changed America profoundly, they didn't change "everything." And what they did change, they didn't necessarily change alone.