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Film critic David Edelstein looks at Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, starring Will Ferrell as a '70s local news man in San Diego.

The "battle of the beers" between Budweiser and Miller is becoming an expensive and bruising campaign. The two brewing giants are facing off in a series of competing television commercials -- Slate advertising critic Seth Stevenson weighs in on the contest.

The Stradivarius stolen from a cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic last month and later recovered is getting a makeover this summer. Each and every crack in the $3.5 million instrument is being repaired by a master craftsman, who says the owner won't notice the difference when the restoration is complete. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne.

A day before the much-heralded arrival of former President Clinton's new memoir, NPR's Tavis Smiley speaks about the Clinton factor in American politics with John Podesta of the Center for American Progress and Rich Lowry of National Review magazine.

Halle Berry's action movie Catwoman opens Friday, and the body-whipping, fluid style of fighting she uses in the film is inspired by the Brazilian martial art of capoeira. Day to Day producer Shereen Meraji reports on the martial art that's become the new hot thing in Hollywood.

With the recent ratings success of televised poker tournaments, teenagers have embraced the game of chance and skill. Pippin Ross reports.

Composer Phil Kline saw lyrics in the engravings made on cigarette lighters owned by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam. Veteran William Crapser saw memories of a hell on earth. Jeff Lunden reports.

NPR's Tony Cox talks to jazz piano legend Chick Corea. (Re-broadcast from April 2004).

In the 19th and early 20th century, cosmetics entrepreneur and self-made millionaire C.J. Walker helped redefine ideals of beauty for African-American women. In the third part of her series on beauty, NPR's Susan Stamberg talks with A'Lelia Bundles, Walker's great-great-granddaughter and author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker.

NPR's Allison Keyes speaks with Tony Award-winning actress Tonya Pinkins about how her emotional pain has enabled her to thrive on television and in the critically acclaimed Broadway musical Caroline, or Change.