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  • In this week's digest of what movie critics are saying about new releases, from the online magazine Slate, we hear about Evan Almighty, A Mighty Heart and 1408.
  • The Sergio Leone Anthology includes A Fistful of Dollars; For a Few Dollars More; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Duck, You Sucker.
  • Fresh Air's book critic suggests the aptly titled 'Summer Reading,' by Hilma Wolitzer; 'Be Near Me,' by Andrew O'Hagan, and the much-lauded 'On Chesil Beach,' by Ian McEwan.
  • Many of us know Paula Abdul as a former pop star who's now one of the judges on the TV show American Idol, but now Abdul has joined the club of celebrities who have their own reality shows. Hey Paula airs Thursday night on the Bravo Channel.
  • Near the town of Alliance, Neb., stands an installation called Carhenge. The artwork replicates Stonehenge in England, but in the form of 38 vintage American cars, half buried in the ground. Carhenge draws about 30,000 tourists a month during the summer, and it turns 20 this weekend.
  • We explore hip-hop journalism in the last installment of our series. Three veteran hip-hop journalists and filmmakers share their experiences.
  • Critic Maureen Corrigan is back with summer-reading suggestions from the nonfiction shelf — titles from Susan Richards Shreve, Jon Katz and Juliet Nicolson.
  • Michael Winterbottom's movie, based on Mariane Pearl's memoir of her slain journalist husband; knowing how this harrowing story played out in real life doesn't diminish its power in the slightest.
  • Next Tuesday, Black Entertainment Television rolls out the red carpet for its 2007 Awards. Emmy Award-winning journalist and BET producer, P. Frank Williams, gives us the low-down.
  • Hollywood puts the planet in peril again with Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer. The comics were hip enough to last for more than 40 years, but the movie treatment is far from must-see cinema.
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