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Music critic Will Hermes takes a listen to the new record from R.E.M., Around the Sun. The band has been making quieter, more introspective, records since drummer Bill Berry left the group in 1997.

Day to Day television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews Comedy Central's new animated series Drawn Together. He says the crass humor of the show is effective at satirizing both today's rash of reality TV and saccharine cartoons of yesteryear.

Commentator Steven Ivory shares with us what his life was like when he lost his television set.

Xeni Jardin talks to South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone about their new movie Team America: World Police. The film -- "acted" entirely by live-action marionettes -- is now in theaters.

NPR's Bob Mondello reviews the DVD version of Michael Moore's incediary documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. Regardless of your politics, Mondello says, the DVD is compelling viewing, freshly updated with new material from events that happened after the film's initial theatrical release.

NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates talks with biographer Marc Eliot about his new book, Cary Grant: A Biography. The book reveals the personal complexities that Grant worked so hard to hide for most of his professional life.

NPR's Noah Adams speaks with actor Billy Crudup, star of the new film Stage Beauty. He plays a 17th-century British stage actor who has made a career out of portraying female characters, until a new law allowing women to perform puts him out of work.

When it comes to sex, booze and rock 'n' roll, the group Faces didn't just follow the cliché, they helped invent it. The hard-rocking, hard-drinking band helped propel the career of Rod Stewart. Ashley Kahn reports.

The 20 finalists for the 2004 National Book Awards were announced today, and for the first time in the awards' 55-year history, all five of the fiction finalists are women. Greta Cunningham of Minnesota Public Radio reports.

Richard Avedon, one of the most influential fashion and portrait photographers of the 20th century, died Friday at the age of 81. NPR's Neda Ulaby has a remembrance.