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A group of artists is making the evolutionary leap to the next medium: life. Bioartists create by engineering living tissue and even living beings. They've grown and eaten a steak from frog tissue, and created a rabbit that glows in the dark. Now they're teaching others to do the same.

The Holmes story appeared in the pages of Beeton's Christmas Annual. Holmes traces a sordid London murder to the heart of the American West.

It's the familiar, but sometimes unintelligible voice standing out among all the rest: that fast-talking, number-crunching auctioneer. Denise Shearin shares tips and divulges insider info on the world of auction blocks. Shearin was recently named the International Auction Champion.

The list of nominees includes Amy Ryan, a star of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

A 1950s novella gets its fourth big-screen adaptation this winter. Neda Ulaby talks to the story's fans and the film's creators to find out why the apocalypse just keeps on coming.

Richard Zanuck grew up on movies — literally. The son of legendary producer Darryl F. Zanuck, who founded and ran Twentieth Century Fox studios in Hollywood's golden era, he became an Oscar-winning producer himself. His latest project: Sweeney Todd, the big-screen version of the legendary Stephen Sondheim musical.

ABC is preparing to launch a four-week anthology series called Masters of Science Fiction; it's scheduled to air on Saturdays at 10 p.m. Fresh Air's TV critic says it's a modern-day Outer Limits.

Visitors to the annual San Diego comic book convention, Comicon, will quickly discover that it's serious business for comic book fans. Comics critic Calvin Reid is there and talks about the event and the presence of blacks and minorities in the comic book industry.

Back to hash out some of the hottest show biz new is Newsweek entertainment writer Allison Samuels. She weighs in on the canceled wedding of R&B singer Usher, tennis star Venus Williams' fashion sense and model Alek Wek's new book.

A lightweight coming-of-age dramedy about a bright, handsome 20-year-old still living with Mommie Dearest — whose reluctance to let him go is ruining his chances of losing his virginity. Brenda Blethyn plays a modern Medea, but the comic impulse ultimately wins out.