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In the latest installment of "Summary Judgment" from online magazine Slate, we'll hear what film critics have to say about new releases this week. On deck: Jindabyne, Next and The Condemned.

Today News and Notes launches a weekly segment looking at lifestyle and entertainment trends. Allison Samuels, writer at Newsweek joins Tony Cox to discuss why R&B star R. Kelly has yet to go to trial to face charges he engaged in sexual activity with underage girls, and whether there is a generation gap driving presidential candidate choices in Black Hollywood.

Elise Blackwell takes a gamble with her fine new novel, The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish. Blackwell's writing is lovely, but flashbacks in the plot and an incomplete inclusion of Hurricane Katrina get in her way.

The star of Friends and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is featured in the new film Numb; he plays a screenwriter plagued by feelings of anxiety, detachment and panic. The story is based on an autobiographical script by Harris Goldberg (Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo), who also made his directing debut with the film.

Sarah Polley's debut film is a generous, deceptively simple portrait, simply brought to life: Gordon Pinsent's Grant is gruff and bearish, Julie Christie's Fiona gorgeous and exquisitely blank.

A brilliant MIT student joins a professor and a group of mathematicians in a Las Vegas card-counting scheme. It's a sort of collegiate Ocean's 16, and it's sharp enough — even if the counting system, as explained (endlessly) in the film, is a bit complex.

This year's Pritzker Prize for Architecture has been awarded to Frenchman Jean Nouvel. Over the course of his career, Nouvel has designed more than 200 projects around the world, including the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and a 75-story tower next door to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

In this installment, we hear the story of an "angel" from Shangrila who wants to walk on the dark side.

Animated heroine, beloved of preschoolers throughout the U.S., breaks the cartoon mold: She's Latina, bilingual, a tomboy — and she knows how to get problems solved. NPR's Rolando Arrieta explores how Nickelodeon's scrappy heroine came to be.

Andrea Dezsö embroidered sayings picayune and punctilious — four dozen of them — onto white cotton squares. They're on display at the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan as part of an exhibition of extreme embroidery called "Pricked."