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The London duo Johnny Boy releases a single that's as catchy as its title is long. With a sound rooted in '60s pop, the result is an underground rock masterpiece: Sly and timeless, it works on multiple levels.

Desperate Networks, a new book exploring the inner workings of the television industry, follows the sagas of top executives at the major networks through a traditional fall season. New York Times reporter Bill Carter describes the highs — the hit show Desperate Housewives, for example — to the lows, which is almost everything else on TV. The Hollywood Reporter television critic Andrew Wallenstein has a review.

Type your name into Google and you may be surprised at what you find. Guests talk about lessons learned in cyberspace and controlling your online persona.

Michele Norris talks with actor Omar Berdouni, who plays one of the hijackers in the movie United 93. Berdouni says playing a radical Muslim hijacker was a stretch for him; he's Moroccan-born and Western-educated. He almost turned down the role because he was worried about Hollywood's tendency to stereotype Arabs.

Jazz great Gerald Wilson is still going strong at 87. He will perform this weekend in New York as part of the Jazz at Lincoln Center series. His most recent album, In My Time was released last year.

The British music press is hailing a new band, the Arctic Monkeys, as being as big as the Beatles — or at least as big as Oasis. The first-week release of the band's debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, sold over 118,000 copies.

The film adaptation of Christopher Buckley's 1994 satirical novel Thank You for Smoking is about to hit the big screen. He talks with Liane Hansen about the movie from a smoke-filled bar in Washington, D.C.

While concerts have been back in South Korea since the beginning of the year, cheering was prohibited. With COVID restrictions lifting, fans are finally allowed to cheer again.

Commentator John McWhorter is the author of Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America. He thinks the new FX TV show "Black/White" is full of stereotypes and cliches about what life is like for black America.

Osvaldo Golijov melds different musical genres, from folk to electronic, into a highly personal style. Now the Argentinean-born composer has written an opera: Ainadamar.