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The organizers of E3 -- the big trade show for the gaming industry -- tone down the "booth babes," scantily clad women who entice geeky guys to come play. Word is the industry wanted to make the show seem a bit more "family friendly" and open to women.

Indie rocker Liz Phair debuted with fierce, funny and sometimes profane songs about her life. As her outlook got sunnier, so did her music. The change alienated some fans. Her latest CD has an edge some may remember.

The Hungarian film Fateless is the coming-of-age story of one boy, cast against the Holocaust. It's based on the autobiographical novel by Imre Kertesz, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.

When Bobby Lounge played at last year's New Orleans Jazz Fest, he made a powerful impression. Bobby Lounge is, in fact, a pseudonym for a reclusive, middle-aged art teacher from rural Mississippi. His lyrics conjure the weirdness of Southern gothic writing. Reporter Adam Burke visits Lounge.

Oregon's Wheeler County, one of the poorest in the American West, hopes to stimulate a struggling rural economy by attracting attention to ancient fossils and the state's prehistoric times.

The new low-budget film from director Steven Soderbergh promises to shake things up in the movie industry. Bubble opens in theaters on Friday, Jan. 27, the same day it is broadcast in HDTV. Four days later, it comes out on DVD.

Nicholas Kenyon, author of The Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart discusses a collection of three piano concertos with pianist Geza Anda and the Camerata Academica of the Salzburg Mozarteum.

Susan Stamberg visits the runways of Paris with essayist David Sedaris and historian Joan DeJean to get a close-up view of fashion marketing.

Weekend Edition Sunday music director Ned Wharton takes a look beyond Mariah and Bono at some Grammy nominated music you might not have heard. Jimmy Sturr's Shake, Rattle and Polka, anyone?

Artist and photographer Gregory Crewdson doesn't so much take photos as make them. Alex Chadwick talks with Crewdson about how he uses techniques of film to stage pictures -- and, some critics say, transform the medium of photography.