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NPR's Scott Simon chats with former Bozo clown Joey D'Auria, author of My Favorite Comedy Sketches. And NPR's Nina Totenberg pelts Simon with a shaving-cream pie.

A new virtual art exhibition celebrates theater, movies and television with original sketches by Broadway set and costume designers.

Red Lights, the new film from French director Cedric Kahn, is a taut, atmospheric thriller about a husband and wife who think they're going on vacation but are actually about to descend into a chaotic abyss. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.

NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates speaks with celebrity photographer Jim Marshall about Proof, a new book featuring his iconic pictures of musicians such as Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash and The Beatles.

Will former L.A. County District Attorney Gil Garcetti soon be better known as a photographer than as a prosecutor? Garcetti talks to NPR's Scott Simon about his book of images of the ironworkers who built Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Slate contributor Ben Williams presents a roundup of what film critics are saying about this weekend's major movie studio releases, including Criminal, Cellular and Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

Twenty thousand Native Americans assembled in Washington on Tuesday for a parade of nations and blessing of the new Museum of the American Indian. Hear museum director W. Richard West and several opening ceremony participants.

Hundreds of pinwheels posing as daisies are among the eye-popping sights at California's Cornerstone Festival of Gardens. The exhibit offers new ideas in landscape design. NPR's Ketzel Levine reports.

W.C. Fields called Bert Williams "the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest I ever knew." Williams was an African-American vaudeville star in the early 1900s, and an influence on many future comedians. A small record company has released a collection of Bert Williams recordings. Elizabeth Yates McNamee reports.

Generations of American schoolchildren were routinely shown filmstrips on mundane topics. In his new book Change Your Underwear Twice a Week, author Danny Gregory revisits the wisdom these films offered. He speaks with NPR's Renee Montagne.