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The Alzheimer's Project, a four-part documentary series airing on HBO, examines the medical and scientific aspects of the disease, as well as its impact on families. The second episode was inspired by Maria Shriver's book Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am?.

Kathie Lee Gifford will be on our program next week. I gather from some messages I received that some people just don't think NPR and Kathie Lee Gifford belong in the same sentence.

Rob Riggle is best known as one of the comedy "news" correspondents on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. But he recently earned a promotion in his other job: as a Marine reservist. Riggle says the role, which has taken him into combat zones, "has definitely served my comedy."

Valentino is a star who shines in the firmament of haute couture — he dressed Audrey Hepburn, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Gwyneth Paltrow. But the story of the man is really the story of a relationship that's lasted throughout his 45-year career.

NPR's Chris Joyce reports on the recent discovery of the first representation in art of the female form.

After creating the HBO series Six Feet Under, about a family who runs a funeral home, writer Alan Ball moved on to the undead in his latest series, True Blood.

Robert Siegel talks with artists Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley about their collaborative piece, Stability And Other Tenuous Positions.

The king of ragtime published his hit tune 120 years ago. Pianist Lara Downes believes the piece helped shape the future of American music.

Havana-born writer Achy Obejas returns to her native city with a novel called Ruins. It's a bittersweet portrait of Cuban life in the mid-1990s.

The symptoms of Parkinson's disease can vanish briefly in the face of stress or a strong emotion. Now scientists are searching for a treatment based on this phenomenon, a form of the placebo effect.