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  • Following up on their platinum debut album, Into the Rush, the sister act Aly & AJ serves up Insomniatic, an album heavy on the teen-relationship tunes. Fresh Air's rock critic reviews the latest from the sisters Michalka.
  • Four Australian lads, who have spent their young lives in an orphanage in the outback, are offered a month's vacation at the beach. It's an experience Sparky, Maps, Misty and Spit (don't ask) will never forget, though it's treacly enough you'll wish you could.
  • Three battling brothers — who haven't spoken in the year since their father's funeral — flail and rail and bond on a trek across India in the latest comic oddity from Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Royal Tennenbaums).
  • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart — hot off an Emmy win Sunday night — is a fake-news show that often pretends to have reporters stationed in some of the world's hottest spots. That's why many viewers did a double-take when the show sent three staffers to report from Iraq last month.
  • After a long summer of anticipation and reruns, the fall TV season has finally arrived. Critics offer a preview of what's ahead: several new dramas about wealth, sex and apathy; a documentary series from Ken Burns; a handful of new reality shows; and sitcoms about amnesia and local TV news.
  • The legendary Carlyle Café, which has played host to Elaine Stritch, Judy Collins and even Woody Allen, will have its grand reopening Sept. 18. Its first engagement will be with the equally legendary Eartha Kitt. Kitt talks about performing at the Manhattan lounge.
  • Striking writers in Hollywood are doing something different at Warner Bros. Studios. Veteran writers put down their signs each Thursday to teach their younger counterparts about writing for TV.
  • The U.S. president is shot during a war-on-terrorism summit in Vantage Point. Eight different points of view reveal a mystery behind the assassination attempt — if you can trust any one of them.
  • The Showtime series Dexter, which tells the story of a criminologist who moonlights as a serial killer, will air (edited for content) on CBS. Fresh Air's TV critic David Bianculli talks about Dexter's move from cable to network.
  • For comedienne Joan Rivers, almost everything is fair game: race, sex, death and, of course, her life. That's the subject on her new autobiographical play, Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress.
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