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In this week's Heard on the Street, hear cultural sounds from the Smithsonian's annual Folklife Festival.

For the bot-crazed 20-something Hasbro customer-of-old, Michael Bay's latest blow-'em-up extravaganza has it all. For the bot-neutral rest of us ... Still, the picture's going to make a fortune, and will doubtless spawn Sequelbots for years.

A 9-year-old who never smiles but plays a mean piano, a newborn with glass-shattering vocal cords, a mom with postpartum depression-- this intriguing drama keeps you guessing, at least initially, about whether its title character is a bad seed or just having a bad month.

Rescue Dawn, the first Hollywood feature from German New Wave director Werner Herzog, is the true story of Dieter Dengler, the only U.S. pilot to sucessfully escape from a North Vietnamese-controlled prison. This dramatized version, starring Christian Bale as Dengler, marks the second time Herzog has told the story.

Director Ang Lee had to cut nine minutes from his racy Lust, Caution before the film could be released in China — and performers as diverse as Gwen Stefani and Ian McKellen have recently been asked to cover up rather than offend local audiences.

Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum talks about her recent column, "Art as Child's Play," in which she examines the work of 4-year-old painting prodigy Marla Olmstead. A new film, My Kid Could Paint That, revives the question: What is art?

Larry Wilmore, The Daily Show's "Senior Black Correspondent," is a writer, television producer, and stand-up comic. He worked on In Living Color and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and was a consulting producer on NBC's The Office. This interview originally aired June 5, 2007.

New Jersey native Stacey Kent is a well-known jazz vocalist in Europe. Her new album, Breakfast on the Morning Tram, comes out this week.

University officials say there are serious flaws in Gehry's $300 million Stata Center located on the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus. Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for the New Yorker, discusses accusations of leaks, drainage problems and mold.

A drug deal gone bad, a traffic stop gone wrong, carnage so far gone it's off the charts — Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel has been turned into the sharpest Coen Bros. film in years. (Recommended)