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A new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., features photos and portraits of hip hop performers and a wall of graffiti. The show likens rap and hip hop to self portraiture. Most of the lyrics, after all, are boasts about the emcee's prowess and badness.

Topography counts in a treasure hunt — which this desperately unfunny shlock-fest is, at least theoretically — but even that can't explain Andy Tennant's fascination with Matthew McConaughey's chest.

Writer Kate Spicer talks about her "descent into starvation" while filming Super Skinny Me, a documentary in which two journalists attempt to drop from a size eight to a size zero in just six weeks.

Sweet-natured and sharply pointed, The Band's Visit follows the adventures of an Egyptian musical group meant to be on a goodwill tour in Israel. Through a mishap, the band is stranded in a remote desert town.

Multi-talented comedienne Mo'Nique co-stars in the new film Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, along with actors Martin Lawrence and James Earl Jones. Mo'Nique talks about the film, being a plus-sized woman and how she balances family life with a high-profile career.

Martin Lawrence plays Roscoe Jenkins, a talk-show star who returns from Los Angeles to the Deep South for a family reunion, flashy fiancée in tow. Broad comedy? Certainly, and a frenetic one, too.

A new Washington, D.C., play tells the stories of the black inventors and entrepreneurs who created many everyday items still in use today, including hair products and the potato chip.

Three armed men in ski masks stole four paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet worth $163.2 million from in one of Europe's largest ever art heists.

As part of our weeklong retrospective of the most entertaining Fresh Air interviews from 2007, we revisit an October chat with actor Mark Ruffalo, then on the big screen in the film Reservation Road.

Blood flows freely and imaginatively in this splendid adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical — about a vengeful barber and his pie-baking landlady, who doesn't want the victims to go to waste. Happily, so do melody and feeling. (Recommended)