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The James Dean Gallery in Gas City, Ind., will close after 17 years. Gas City is near Dean's hometown of Fairmount. Museum owner David Loehr tells Scott Simon what's so special about Dean.

New York City's transit union called a strike Tuesday after failing to reach a deal with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The strike left more than 7 million people in and around the city looking for alternative ways to get around. Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports.

Two days after declaring a state of emergency in the Philippines, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo continues her clampdown on the political opposition and government critics. The turmoil came the week Filipinos were remembering the ouster of President Ferdinand Marcos 20 years ago.

Danny Perasa died last week after fighting pancreatic cancer for months. Morning Edition first met Danny and his wife Annie two years ago when they interviewed each other for StoryCorps. Danny Perasa will be buried today. Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne read from listeners' letters.

Childhood curiosity fueled Alan Lightman's interest in science and space. Now an astrophysicist and novelist, Lightman believes our greatest creativity, in science and art, comes from awe at the unknown.

Author Christine Rosen talks about My Fundamentalist Education, her humorous and affectionate memoir of growing up in the 1980s in a fundamentalist household.

Woody Allen leaves both comedy and New York behind for his new movie, Match Point, a thriller set in England. Bob Mondello reviews the new film staring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Emily Mortimer and Matthew Goode.

James Cannon is the author of Apostle Paul: A Novel of the Man Who Brought Christianity to the Western World. He discusses his fictional take on the important historical figure with Scott Simon.

Many of us moved at a breakneck pace in 2005, and we're bouncing right into a new year. Writer Carl Honore takes note of a movement aimed at urging us to chill out a little. He tells Debbie Elliott about his book In Praise of Slowness.

The GOP leader spoke from Stockholm following a trip to Kyiv. He backed Sweden and Finland joining NATO and pushed back on more isolationist voices in his party.