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Day to Day animation critic Charles Solomon has some anime-themed gift ideas for parents who don't know what to get their teenagers this holiday.

For more than 30 years, photographer Christina Patoski has been documenting Americans' holiday displays. Her images appear in the new book "Merry Christmas, America: A Front Yard View of the Holidays."

The ethereal sounds of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge have become a staple of the Christmas season throughout the world. NPR's Jacki Lyden talks with choir director Stephen Cleobury and choristers Sam Landman and Alexander Ryan.

All About Eve is a true Hollywood classic, an insider's look at the theater world that won Oscars for best screenplay and best director. And it also has one of screenwriter Paul Attanasio's favorite scenes.

The winter solstice occurs this Tuesday. For the past 25 years, musician Paul Winter has celebrated the event with a series of concerts. This year, the event took place at the Cathedral of St. John the Devine in New York City. NPR's Margot Adler spoke with Winter as he prepared for the concerts.

Animation critic Charles Solomon reviews The Incredibles, the latest computer-animated film from Pixar. The highly anticipated film opens in U.S. theaters Friday.

Mark Helprin's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker for more than 20 years. He's also a contributing editor for The Wall Street Journal. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Helprin about his latest collection of short stories.

Slate ad critic Seth Stevenson analyzes the newest spate of ads from Volkswagen, which feature test drive scenarios with a Volkswagen salesman.

NPR's Bob Mondello looks back at the films released in 2004, and finds a handful that prove to filmmakers that you can create films that deal with politics, memory and religion and not suffer at the box office.

Recent anti-Syria protesters in Lebanon include some of the authors featured in an anthology called Transit: Beirut. Their highly personal, often experimental work offers glimpses of a different side of the city.