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World music critic Milo Miles reviews the new boxset I Am the Upsetter, by Jamaican producer songwriter and singer Lee "Scratch" Perry. In a long and varied career, Perry went from helping to shape the sound of reggae to becoming an icon in his own right.

Alan Cheuse reviews Zorro by Isabel Allende. The novel takes place in early nineteenth-century California and Spain. It spurs to life the legendary romantic hero Zorro.

In an interview with Good Morning America, Ashley Judd said her family wanted to get ahead of any news, and that she didn't want her mother's death to become part of the "gossip economy."

Trumpet star Wynton Marsalis, co-founder and director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, is hosting a benefit concert and auction Saturday night to raise money for the Higher Ground Hurricane Fund. Artists lending their talents include James Taylor, Buckwheat Zydeco, Norah Jones and many others.

There are lots of nasty characters lurking in the shadowy corners of the Internet. But Strong Bad is just awful. And he's awfully funny, too, as he assails Marzipan and Homestar Runner. Goofy humor is the hallmark of the Web site Homestarrunner.com.

Comic book author Frank Miller talks about his work and the relationship between the new movie Batman Begins and his Batman: Year One series, on which the movie is loosely based.

The new Tutankhamun exhibit is one of the most highly anticipated art shows this year, generating the kind of buzz the boy king once garnered when artifacts from his tomb first toured the United States more than a generation ago.

British writer Nick Hornby's comic talents have been on display since the novel High Fidelity. Hornby talks about writing for the British and the American ear, and how music plays a role in his creative process.

Our own Day to Day television critic reviews the new FX network series 30 Days. The show, hosted by documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, plays with the idea of what it's really like to live in someone else's shoes for 30 days. Spurlock was the subject of the film Super Size Me, where he charted his weight gain while eating exclusively at McDonald's for 30 days.

Hernan Diaz's novel is constantly pulling a fast one on the reader. It opens with the saga of a Wall Street tycoon, but soon another narrative comes to upend the truth of everything that came before.