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The accordionist Richard Galliano plays what's known as French musette, a rich, energetic blend of European folk music and American jazz. Critic Jim Fusilli says Galliano's new live album, Ruby, My Dear, shows just how dazzling jazz with a French flair can be.

Kotsur was born deaf and grew up in Mesa, Arizona. In CODA, he plays a father whose teenage daughter is passionate about singing.

As Russian troops threaten to invade Ukraine, the U.S. publicizes what it says are Russian attempts to sow disinformation. The goal is to undermine Russian claims that might be used to provoke a war.

The new TV version of Once Upon a Mattress, which will be broadcast Sunday night on ABC, features the return of Carol Burnett.

Paramount has been marketing Get Rich or Die Tryin', about the life of the rapper 50 Cent, with billboards that feature images of guns. Critics have accused the ad campaign of promoting violence.

The Pentagon and U.N. human rights investigators are in a standoff over access to the more than 500 people being held at the Guantanamo Bay military detention center. Last week, the Defense Department invited the United Nations to visit the base, but under conditions that the investigators say they cannot accept.

Efforts to restore the National Museum in Kabul are not unlike the struggle to rebuild Afghanistan itself. Two and a half years after reopening, the three-story building at the edge of Kabul has more scaffolding than exhibits.

The Black Donnellys is a new television show created by Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, the team who wrote the Oscar-winning movie Crash.

The new movie 300 is adapted from a graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley. The movie centers on an ancient battle between the Spartans and the Persians.

The film Amazing Grace focuses on William Wilberforce, who led the movement in the British Parliament to abolish slavery. It tells a story of idealism and speaking truth to power.

Avenue Montaigne is a "boulevard comedy" — a breezy romp with sophisticated characters — that's actually about a boulevard. The locale is an elegant block in Paris populated with culture mavens.

The story of FBI spy Robert Hanssen makes for a film that offers a tale of real-life espionage that doubles as a compelling psychological drama. A cast led by Chris Cooper offers a compelling look at the complexities of human relationships.

Two debuts: 300 is a fierce, stylized retelling of Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae. Into Great Silence is a documentary about a French monastery where a vow of silence is observed.

Thieves are targeting massive bronze sculptures, including those of some world renowned artists. John Henry Wadell's famous work The Gathering, valued at more than $500,000, was stolen for scrap metal.

Author Jonathan Lethem says he's giving away the option on film rights to his new novel. But in return, Lethem gets to choose who makes the movie for You Don't Love Me Yet. And he wants 2 percent of the budget when the film is done.

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez bring us Grindhouse, a deliberately cheesy homage to the low-rent double feature — and believe it or not, critic Bob Mondello says "What's not to love?"

Canada's 4-2 victory over the U.S. in group play gives the Canadians the top-seed heading into the quarterfinals. The U.S., the defending gold medalists, also advance to the quarterfinals.

British food writer Anna Longmore talks about her list in Arena Magazine of the 50 foods you should try before you die. She says that monkfish liver and duck embryo are definitely not for everyone.

Letting kids dip maggots into paint may sound merely disgusting — but there's an entomologist from U.C.-Davis who calls it art. Rebecca O'Flaherty is using the maggot art to teach respect for a larva most people associate with road-kill. Under her guidance, students dip maggots in water-based paint.

With nearly 40 films to his credit, from American Gigolo to Chicago, Richard Gere knows an iconic character when he sees one. In The Hoax, he plays a scammer who lands a seven-figure book deal; it's based on the true story of Clifford Irving, the bogus "authorized biographer" of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.

Kevin Spacey's revival of the Eugene O'Neill play A Moon for the Misbegotten opens Monday on Broadway. He initially staged the play in his role as artistic director for the historic London theater the Old Vic.

Halle Berry stars as a newspaper reporter in Perfect Stranger, investigating bad guy Bruce Willis. But the facts get fuzzy, and the film may have you asking yourself what's going on — and why it was even made.

The band Modest Mouse have grown from a well-respected indie-rock act to a major-label band that sold over a million-and-a-half copies of its last record, Good News For People Who Love Bad News, in large part because of the inescapable single "Float On." Their new LP is titled We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank.

The TV Set, starring David Duchovny and Sigourney Weaver, satirizes the punishing process of producing a TV pilot. Writer and director Jake Kasdan knows his material: He directed and co-produced the pilot for the acclaimed but short-lived TV series Freaks and Geeks.

Iranian director Jafar Panahi's movie Offside is a comedy about young Iranian women trying against long odds to get into a packed soccer stadium.