A minor figure in the jazz world, Joe Albany came to prominence in he '40s and '50s during the bebop era. Like many jazzsters, he had a heroin habit. "Low Down" looks at Albany's life in the '70s through the eyes of his daughter Amy Jo.
Actress Elizabeth Peña passed away Tuesday in Los Angeles. She'd been suffering from an cirrhosis of the liver. Pena was 55.
The same team that brought us "The Union" in 2007 is back with "The Culture High" - a two-hour documentary that examines the War on Drugs with the help of Snoop Dogg, B-Real, Wiz Khalifa and host of legal and science experts.
Muckraker Gary Webb blew the lid off the Contra-cocaine connection and paid for it with his life. In Michael Cuesta's "Kill the Messenger," he's depicted as part Woodward and Bernstein, and part Serpico.
John Ridley won the Academy Award in March for his screenplay of "12 Years a Slave." His latest subject is another misunderstood black man, Jimi Hendrix.
