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Brothers Rob and Nate Corddry are both former correspondents on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Now Rob has a new Fox sitcom, The Winner, which airs on Sunday nights.

A swanky art gallery opened this year in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington D.C. Some residents were shocked to see a gallery in a neighborhood that's better known for homicides than cheese cubes and champagne. Is an art gallery really what Anacostia needs?

Instead of depending on ratings to determine what programs to cut or keep, VH1's Acceptable.TV is submitting user-generated content for popular approval.

The Lives of Others is set in communist East Berlin in the days before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It focuses on a police captain who is forced to put a wire tap on a famous playwright.

Historic buildings in the Islamic world are often covered with breathtakingly intricate geometric designs. Both artists and mathematicians have long puzzled over them, wondering how the patterns were created. A new study suggests the artisans worked from templates that drew upon advanced math principles.

Years after he dropped out of law school to pursue comedy, Demetri Martin is a successful stand-up comedian and regular contributor on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. But what do Demetri's mother, Lillian, and grandmother, Dinah, think about that? Robert Siegel talks with Demetri, Lillian and Dinah.

Microsoft launches Windows Vista, its newest operating system, Tuesday. While the software giant is trying to pump up the product's "wow" factor, an editor at PC Magazine reviews its potential.

Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are the directing partners behind the Oscar-nominated dark comedy Little Miss Sunshine. But their favorite DVDs tend to be documentaries, including one about pet cemeteries.

The largest exhibit ever assembled of Latin America colonial art is on display in Mexico City. The show offers fresh perspectives on the wide-ranging cultural influences –Spanish, Dutch, Middle Eastern and more — that went into the melting pot that is Latin America.

Reality blends with fiction on The Naked Brothers Band, a new series airing Saturday on Nickelodeon. The rock 'n' roll mockumentary stars real-life brothers Nat and Alex Wolfe. It's equal parts cute and clever that works on both kid- and adult-levels.

The British have had a long love affair with American soul music. The Motown and Stax labels were popular in the London clubs of the 1960s, while "rare grooves," or obscure singles, were fuel for the Northern Soul movement of the 1970s and 1980s. These days, the British are making their own soul music.

Ira Glass is the host of the popular public radio program This American Life. A TV version of his show will premiere on Showtime in March. What will it be like to make the transition?

Film director Marc Lawrence wrote and directed the new film Music and Lyrics, starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. He also directed the film Two Weeks' Notice and co-wrote and produced the comedy Miss Congeniality.

The 2004 movie Garden State transformed the Shins from a little known indie-rock band to a mainstream sensation. Their eagerly awaited new album is out today. The album shows the Shins expanding their sound without losing the melodic pop-writing they're known for.

On the closing day of the Renee Magritte exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Sunday, a guard noticed a peculiar sight: a Ziploc bag full of ladybugs. The bag was mysteriously left in the museum. A few ladybugs flew free before guards cleared them out. Even with galleries decorated with clouds on the floor and freeways on the ceiling, the little ladybugs were indeed a surreal surprise.

The new movie Stomp the Yard is about a young man who leaves Los Angeles to go to a historically black college — and gets caught up in its step-dancing rivalries. Step has been a tradition in black fraternities and sororities for decades.

What Guillermo del Toro has accomplished in Pan's Labyrinth cannot easily be put into words. That's because the Mexican-born director is a master creator of images, atmosphere and mood.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Ottawa City Councillor Matthew Luloff about what the Canadian capital is doing to try to end the massive protests over COVID-19 mandates and other pandemic rules.

The organization Sapelo Square is celebrating the experiences of black Muslims in the United States through the launch of an online exhibition.

Under a bill proposed by Florida's governor, schools and businesses would be banned from teaching courses and offering training that cause white people to feel "discomfort" on account of their race.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Evan Medeiros, Asia expert at Georgetown University, about the significance of Russia and China relations amid the Ukraine crisis, and what it means for global alliances.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Bryce Pardo, from the RAND Drug Policy Research Center, on the findings of a new opioid trafficking report.

When the Khmer Rouge carried out the genocide of nearly 2 million Cambodians in the late 1970s, it also nearly obliterated Cambodia's arts and culture. Kong Nay, one of the last living masters of the Cambodian guitar, is trying to keep those traditions alive.

Pianist Barry Douglas is working with the Rediscover Northern Ireland project, which seeks to raise awareness about revitalized cities and culture. He's the founder of the Camerata Ireland orchestra.

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.