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  • Emmy Award winner Brian Cox's latest show is the HBO series Deadwood, whose third season is now out on DVD. This interview first aired on June 26, 2006.
  • 19th-century Harvard students needed botanical models. They turned to a pair of glass artists who specialized in invertebrate zoology. The results, on display at the Corning Museum of Glass this summer, are so lifelike that they've inspired poets and novelists.
  • Singer and musician Maysa soothed and electrified audiences in the '90s as a member of the British jazz band Incognito. Now the sultry singer explains why has lent her voice to a new record of R&B oldies.
  • The new NBC reality show, Age of Love, debuts Monday night. The story line is a tale of boy meets girl (after girl). But in this instance, it's boy meets woman — a much older woman.
  • In 1861, Elizabeth Packard was forcibly removed from her home and committed to an insane asylum because she disagreed with her Calvinist husband's religious beliefs. Playwright Emily Mann tells her story in the Kennedy Center's presentation of Mrs. Packard.
  • A new animated series on Comedy Central, Lil' Bush, premieres Wednesday night. The show re-imagines the Bush administration as elementary school classmates.
  • Everybody's favorite girl detective cutes up the screen; Emma Roberts smiles perkily while searching for clues to a long-ago murder in a Hollywood Hills mansion her dad rents for the summer.
  • Gerard Alessandrini is the creator of Forbidden Broadway, a show that spoofs hit Broadway shows. Alessandrini sees every show that opens, to mine its comic potential out of and create parodies. He offers his predictions for Sunday night's Tony Awards.
  • MacArthur Fellow Deborah Willis has spent 30 years writing about the Black American image in photography. She explains her new photo exhibition "Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits."
  • The documentary Ghosts of Cite Soleil takes viewers through a Haitian slum overrun with political gangs. The film's director, Asger Leth, followed two rival leaders and brothers during the months leading up to the 2004 exile of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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