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The largest exhibit ever assembled of Latin America colonial art is on display in Mexico City. The show offers fresh perspectives on the wide-ranging cultural influences –Spanish, Dutch, Middle Eastern and more — that went into the melting pot that is Latin America.

Microsoft launches Windows Vista, its newest operating system, Tuesday. While the software giant is trying to pump up the product's "wow" factor, an editor at PC Magazine reviews its potential.

Comedian Sarah Silverman has earned notice for her irreverence toward touchy topics. Her new Comedy Central show, The Sarah Silverman Program, debuts Thursday night.

Ira Glass is the host of the popular public radio program This American Life. A TV version of his show will premiere on Showtime in March. What will it be like to make the transition?

For more than 25 years, black actors in Hollywood have held a secret awards ceremony the night before the Academy Awards. Newsweek entertainment reporter Allison Samuels talks about how the awards recently ended, after black actors gained more recognition by the Academy.

The best sound editing award at the Oscars may not be the sexiest category, but every filmmaker would say good sound is an essential part of a movie. Sound editor Lon Bender, who nabbed an Academy Award a decade ago for Braveheart is nominated this year for his work on Blood Diamond.

Film director Marc Lawrence wrote and directed the new film Music and Lyrics, starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. He also directed the film Two Weeks' Notice and co-wrote and produced the comedy Miss Congeniality.

Tanya Hart, a reporter for American Urban Radio Networks, talks with Tony Cox about Sunday's Oscars. Hart offers her take on the view from the red carpet and the winners, including a strong speech from best actor winner Forest Whitaker.

On the closing day of the Renee Magritte exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Sunday, a guard noticed a peculiar sight: a Ziploc bag full of ladybugs. The bag was mysteriously left in the museum. A few ladybugs flew free before guards cleared them out. Even with galleries decorated with clouds on the floor and freeways on the ceiling, the little ladybugs were indeed a surreal surprise.

The British have had a long love affair with American soul music. The Motown and Stax labels were popular in the London clubs of the 1960s, while "rare grooves," or obscure singles, were fuel for the Northern Soul movement of the 1970s and 1980s. These days, the British are making their own soul music.