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This week, the Library of Congress announced 50 more audio recordings it will preserve... and the discovery of a previously unknown recording by jazzman Lester Young. The piece was recorded in 1940, probably in New York City.

When the show cast The Doctor as a woman, it avoided exploring her gender. Now that Ncuti Gatwa is The Doctor, critic Eric Deggans writes, Doctor Who shouldn't avoid his Blackness.

Rock opera, the tradition that has thrived since its early days of the Who's Tommy and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar, now embraces another likely figure: Genghis Khan. The show blends throat singing with heavy metal.

Scott Joplin was once among America's most popular songwriters. The son of a former slave, his Ragtime music swept the nation more than 100 years ago.

Herb Alpert and Sergio Mendes, giants of 1960s music, are back. Alpert collaborated with electronica musicians to remix his hits. And rap and soul stars have turned Mendes' work into a variety of new songs... with some mixed results.

Judges for the Pulitzer Prize Monday cited The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Mike Luckovich "for his powerful cartoons on an array of issues, drawn with a simple but piercing style." It's a second prize for Luckovich, who was also honored in 1995.

Tony Award nominee Corey Reynolds is also the co-star of the TNT crime drama The Closer. Reynolds talks with Farai Chideya about his TV role, and whether he misses the stage. He was nominated three years ago for his starring role as Seaweed J. Stubbs in the enduring Broadway smash Hairspray.

John Leguizamo, who got his start as a stand-up comedian, stars in the new Spanish-language film Cronicas. He plays a tabloid reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador to track down a serial killer.

Nelson George, a prolific writer and critic of black America, has made a documentary based on his best-selling book Post-Soul Nation. The new film, Smart Black People, profiles African-American personalities who left their stamp on America in the 1980s.

Conductor Marin Alsop was appointed Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra earlier this week over strenuous objections from many of the orchestra's musicians. Alsop talks with Fred Child about the appointment, the controversy, and the symphony's future.