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  • Cantilever is the new solo album from Jeff Murphy, formerly of the 1970s band Shoes.
  • Trumpeter Enrico Rava is one of Italy's best known and most recorded jazz musicians. In the 1970s, Rava made some memorable records for the ECM label. Now he's back with the company and one happy result is The Words and the Days.
  • The Lookout, a thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, invests more than the usual amount of effort in developing characters. It marks the directing debut of Scott Frank, known for his writing work.
  • The caveman characters seen in Geico Insurance commercials may get their own sitcom on prime-time TV. Can they evolve beyond the 30-second commercial spot?
  • Washington Post film critic Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact has been made into Shooter, a film starring Mark Wahlberg. Hunter talks about what it's like to endure reviews.
  • Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon turns 100 this year. Museum of Modern Art curator John Elderfield talks about the painting, which is considered the first great work of modern art.
  • Hear a summary of what the critics are saying about this week's new movies, from from online magazine Slate: Reign Over Me, Shooter and The Last Mimzy.
  • Mike Binder has directed nine feature films. In Reign Over Me, he gives a serious — an extremely serious — part to the comic Adam Sandler, who plays a man whose life is destroyed by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
  • The Mall of America has about 500 stores. One artist visited every one and created a sculpture that represents her journey.
  • Was Hamlet criminally responsible for killing his ex-girlfriend's father, Polonius? That is the question argued in a mock trial, part of a Shakespeare festival in Washington, D.C. Lawyers Abbe Lowell and Miles Ehrlich presented oral arguments before a jury.
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