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NPR's Cheryl Corley speaks with Alexandra Patsavas, music supervisor of the television show The O.C.. The program has become a showcase for new music that's fallen under the mainstream radar.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Turkish bass baritone Burak Bilgili about being asked to fill in as Leporello in the New York Metropolitan Opera's production of Mozart's Don Giovanni.

A spate of films that take critical, satirical looks at corporate and political power are set to hit theaters this spring, many aiming to reach the wider audiences at multiplexes. New films in the genre include Supersize Me, The Yes Men and The Corporation. The Disney Corporation is blocking its Miramax division from distributing director Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, a film critical of the Bush administration. David D'Arcy reports.

On Thursday, Friends airs its last episode. The long-running Frasier is also winding to a close. Both shows have been keys to NBC's success and the network has been looking for replacements for years. But there hasn't been a breakout sitcom on any network hit since Will and Grace had its debut six seasons back. Some even say that sitcoms have lost their appeal. Two sitcom veterans -- Paul Reiser and Jim Burrows -- are trying to prove that the traditional sitcom lives. NPR's Kim Masters reports.

Singer Sam Phillips began her music career as a Christian singer. She took her faith with her and began to make pop music that are modern torch songs, songs of love and pain. The music on her latest CD, A Boot and A Shoe, is stark, with production from T Bone Burnett. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Phillips about the characters and many angles the writer uses to compose music that is more impressionistic than storytelling.

The new action-adventure film Van Helsing centers on the venerable doctor, an expert on vampires who masterminded the counterattack on Dracula in Bram Stoker's novel about the blood-sucking count. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.

If you're a mother of young children, you may not have much musical freedom. The songs you listen to are, inescapably, the songs your kids are listening to. Catherine Savage is one of those moms. She discusses her favorite music from children's movies.

Eight years after their previous studio album, the New Orleans-and Colorado-based roots band The Subdudes has reformed. NPR's Liane Hansen speaks with original founding members Tommy Malone and John Magnie. The band is currently on tour supporting its new album Miracle Mule.

Three performance artists have developed an art piece called Swipe, which reveals how much information your drivers license contains. Rob Schmitz of member station KPCC reports.

Author Ben Macintyre's book tells the true story of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker who 150 years ago became the first American to visit Afghanistan.