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In the best picture category, "Birdman" was joined by "St. Vincent," "Grand Budapest Hotel," "Into the Woods" and "Pride."

The act, which turned 50 last year, ended the era of legal segregation in public accommodations, like restaurants and hotels. Author Todd Purdum talks about the battles that surrounded it.

Seaweed has piled up 10 feet high on beaches, attracts sand fleas and smells rotten.

Fresh Air pays tribute to Boston with a 1988 performance by the late jazz pianist Dave McKenna. From 1981 to 1991, McKenna had a standing gig at Boston's Grand Dame Copley Plaza Hotel. He was also a loyal Red Sox fan. He died in 2008.

To promote the horror film Mama, the hotel has received a gory makeover. Rooms have blood soaked sheets and scary graffitti.

This weekHBO has been heavily promoting its new movie, Live from Baghdad. It's about the CNN producers and reporters who braved Iraqi censors and Allied bombs to report from a room in the al-Rashid Hotel on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991. Commentator and Time magazine writer James Poniewozik says it might be worth your while to watch this weekend.

One of America's oldest and richest family business empires is breaking up. The Pritzker family of Chicago -- founders of the famed Hyatt hotel chain -- intends to sell most of its $15 billion worth of investments to settle an internal financial spat. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Mark Maremont of The Wall Street Journal.

Several hundred Japanese Americans who grew up in World War II internment camps gather at a Los Angeles hotel for a reunion. The survivors say they want to tell their stories before their generation dies out. NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports.

The shooting of a Black teenager by a white middle-aged man who confronted him for playing loud music is causing soul searching in the mostly white community where he lived.

The agency was ordered to continue payments for Puerto Rico disaster survivors living in hotels after their homes were destroyed nearly 11 months ago. The extension expires on Aug. 31.