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In a wide-ranging public conversation, Stephen Sondheim tells former New York Times theater critic Frank Rich why he loves Glee and explains how he came to write the lyrics for West Side Story.

We pause to remember Leslie Nielsen, an actor who knew very well that his job wasn't to say funny things or say things in a funny way -- but who managed to be riotously funny anyway.

On this week's Culturetopia: Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, a couple of peeks at Broadway, and many repetitions of the words "Barbra Streisand."

We ask five questions — about a fourteen-year-old actress, an emotionally brutal relationship drama, and more — that we'll get the answers to when the Oscar nominations are announced Tuesday morning.

A new study suggests that we're experiencing a drop in cultural "omnivores." The first step to making the world safe for them is stopping the war between art and fun, which never should have been undertaken in the first place.

Chinese New Year in Singapore lets the unique Malay, Indian, Chinese and European influences of Singaporean cuisine shine through. The author of a new memoir about the country's food shares favorite recipes and family memories.

Started in 2009, Night Markets use rented box trucks to create a cluster of outlandish art installations and performance venues that last just 24 hours. With attractions ranging from smash trucks to singalongs, they bring a feast of the unlikely and unseen to even the wildest of imaginations.

Dashiell Hammett gave us Sam Spade, not to mention Nick and Nora Charles. Now, from the long-deceased author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, comes a never-before-published short story: "So I Shot Him."

April is National Poetry Month and Tell Me More is celebrating with a series of poems with a techie twist. The poems to be featured in the series, entitled Muses and Metaphor, will be "tweets" from listeners. That means, messages no longer than 140 characters, exchanged via Twitter. Washington, DC based poet Holly Bass, who will be helping to select listeners' tweets for the program, gives advice on how to write a good tweet poem.

The Daily Beast editor joins Steve Inskeep to recommend some good recent reading. Her focus this month: heroism, as embodied by three public figures.