COVER STORY
Boundaries
Kurt Andersen and jazz scholar Robert O'Meally look at how artists defy, blur, and cross boundaries.

Calexico/Mexicali
Calexico, California and Mexicali, Mexico are two desert towns, yards away from each other along the US-Mexico border. When the US Government erected a 14-foot-high, 2 mile-long steel fence along their border, some local residents tried to bring the two towns back together. Produced by Polly Sveda.
Go to the site of the Binational Mural Project

PexbaA
A Brazilian band refuses to be stuck in any musical pigeonhole, and lives with the consequences. Produced by Michael May.
Go to the official pexbaA website
Go to MotorMusic's webpage on PexbaA

Lenny Bruce
Forty years ago Lenny Bruce crossed a line and became comedy's greatest free speech martyr. Ronald Collins and David Skover -- the authors of "The Trials of Lenny Bruce" -- describe how the comedian fought the law and the law won. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.
Go to the website of "The Trials of Lenny Bruce"
Go to a site about Lenny Bruce & the FBI

SPECIAL GUEST
Robert O'Meally
Robert O'Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of American Literature at Columbia University, where he is also the Director of the Center for Jazz Studies, dedicated to exploring the influence of jazz on American life. He is the author of Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday and Living With Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings.
Go to Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies

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