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A bill in the Florida Legislature would bring a 90-day anchoring limit in the Keys closer by reducing the number of new moorings near Key West from 250 to 100 before it can take effect.

Is Carrie Bradshaw, the main character in Sex and the City, a narcissist? Many — including Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays her — would say "yes" without flinching. As part of our "In Character" series, NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports, self-absorption is part of Carrie Bradshaw's charm.

For anyone who didn't want to browse through the pages of Black Belt, New Witch, Modern Drunkard, Smithsonian or Cat Fancy themselves, there's been 12 years of the Magazine Reader column in the Washington Post. The writer was Peter Carlson, who retired this week.

When Gene Roddenberry was putting Star Trek together, NBC execs had some advice: "Lose the Martian." We all know how that turned out: Mr. Spock (a Vulcan) ranks among the most fascinating characters in TV history.

Actor Steve Carell, star of The Office and this summer's big-screen adaptation Get Smart, talks about awkward moments on film — and about his unexpected rise to fame.

A legal battle is brewing over who owns the rights to the inspirational story. The tale of walking on the beach with Jesus shows up on posters, coffee mugs and candles, but it's unclear who owns the copyright.

Torture Team, a book by lawyer and author Philippe Sands, pulls together the results of interviews with the people in the United States government who decided to use harsh tactics in detainee interrogations.

The latest news from the BPP blog, including a slideshow of work by Jeremiah Palecek, a Prague-bases painter who recreates viral videos on canvas.

Kicked out of prep school, over-shrunk rich kid offers counseling — and prescription antidepressants — to his new public-school peers in a makeshift office in the boys' bathroom. An improbably charming comedy.

With the end of the writer's strike, live programming returned to network television this weekend in a big way. TV critic David Bianculli reviews last night's 80th Annual Academy Awards telecast, as well as the weekend's new episode of Saturday Night Live, starring Tina Fey.

This year's Academy Awards got the worst ratings in ceremony history. Madeleine Brand talks to comedy duo Frangela, former Seinfeld writer Peter Mehlman and others about how they'd fix the show. Prince, gambling and bare midriffs are part of the plan.

Toy designers Steve Ross and Jason Geyers uncovered a treasure trove of never released Star Wars accessories, from the Jabba the Hutt bean bag chair to the Death Star grill.

Artist Fritz Haeg builds homes for wild animals in urban areas with the hope of luring them back. This week his installation appears outside New York's Whitney Museum. What kind of creatures can we expect?

Every year, the week of the Oscars, Brad Oltmanns and Rick Rosas, partners at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and about 12 counters go to an undisclosed location in Southern California and hand count all 6,000 ballots. It takes the team about three days to determine the Academy Award winners.

The Writers Guild of America voted to end its 14-week strike yesterday, which has cost the economy millions of dollars. St. Petersburg Times TV/Media critic Eric Deggans explains the latest details.

Forty years ago, another presidential race was focused on an unpopular war. The 1968 Chicago convention riots — and the "Chicago Seven" tried in their wake — are the subject of an unorthodox documentary.

The Scarlet Letter's proud adulteress is a vessel for the feelings and actions of the men who surround her — and a mirror revealing the reader's true feelings about the role of women in society.

Morning Edition and Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan reviews the thriller Vantage Point. It's the story of an attempted assassination of the president told from the point of view of eight people. Turan says that it's trying to be like the classic Japanese film Rashomon, but it's more like the story of the blind men and the elephant.

Clever premise, winning cast compete with contrived situations and a script that doesn't trust it's warmer impulses. Ultimately, this romantic comedy is a mixed box of chocolates.

Sculptor John Bisbee has made almost all of his art with an object most people use to hang art with — nails. Recently, after decades of oxidizing, welding, bending and cutting, he realized that he was overlooking the most obvious thing he could do with nails: hammer them.

Captain Ahab, who led the ill-fated quest for Melville's great white whale, Moby-Dick, may have been misunderstood. Today, it appears he has much in common with modern American leaders.

For comedienne Joan Rivers, almost everything is fair game: race, sex, death and, of course, her life. That's the subject on her new autobiographical play, Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress.

While on assignment in Afghanistan, Steve Featherstone began taking pictures of latrine walls at an airbase in Kuwait, not far from the border with Iraq. The images, he says, are a rare glimpse into the minds of U.S. soldiers.

The president of Georgia Tech University, Wayne Clough, is named the new head of the Smithsonian Institution on Saturday. He becomes the 12th secretary in the institution's history. When he begins in July, he'll face myriad management and financial obstacles.

Republican Sen. Aaron Bean describes his proposal as more of a “tweak” to the system, but some say there’s a lot left undone.