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Commentator Gustavo Arellano reviews Mexican singer Ely Guerra's latest CD, Sweet and Sour, Hot y Spicy.

The original Star Wars film trilogy gets the box-set DVD treatment, complete with a separate DVD with making-of documentaries, and alternate commentary soundtracks from George Lucas himself.

Animation critic Charles Solomon reviews The Incredibles, the latest computer-animated film from Pixar. The highly anticipated film opens in U.S. theaters Friday.

Day to Day book critic David Kipen reviews Tom Wolfe's new novel I Am Charlotte Simmons -- and finds Wolfe's once-revolutionary writing style is showing its age.

During pop singer Ashlee Simpson's recent appearance on 'Saturday Night Live,' it was revealed that she was lip-syncing when the wrong song was cued. The singer has blamed a sore throat for her need to have a backing track. The show's former bandleader, GE Smith, says he is surprised that lip-syncing is allowed on what is billed as a live show.

In the first of an ongoing series, filmmaker Nora Ephron says she wishes she'd written the soap opera scene in the movie, Tootsie, where Dustin Hoffman offers a revealing disclosure. Ephron also explains how she and others came up with the restaurant scene in the film, When Harry Met Sally. Hear Ephron and NPR's Susan Stamberg.

Joyce Carol Oates returns with The Falls, a haunting tale of tragedy and redemption. Set in Niagara, the waterfalls exert a deathly pull on two generations of a family. NPR's Lynn Neary speaks with the author.

At the American Museum of Natural History, a lost world is taking shape. Artists, writers and scientists have joined forces to create the most up-to-date dinosaur show ever. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.

Slate contributor Ben Williams delivers a weekly roundup of what film critics are saying about this week's major new studio premieres -- Saw, Ray and Birth.

A San Francisco man has created a universal remote control that offers only one function: the 'off' button. His keychain device, TV-B-Gone, is designed to extinguish televisions in public places. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and inventor Mitch Altman.