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Months ago, Day to Day asked listeners to submit pictures they'd taken with their phone cameras. Technology writer Xeni Jardin joins NPR's Alex Chadwick to announce the four photographs we've selected as winners.

Her father Joao is a legend in their native Brazil, having pioneered the bossa nova sound. And her debut CD, 2000's Tanto Tempo, sold over a million copies. Now comes a self-titled second album.

Ann Telnaes is the second woman in history to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Her edgy satire is on display at the Library of Congress. NPR's Susan Stamberg recently spoke with Telnaes about the inspirations for her work.

Tom Cruise plays the bad guy in Collateral, a new film by director Michael Mann, who employs a creative soundtrack and stunning digital cinematography. Jamie Foxx co-stars as a cab driver caught up in the action. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.

Day to Day's Rob Sachs profiles the French electronic music duo Air, how they broke into the American music scene and how their success is helping other French music acts to get airplay across the Atlantic.

There are over 6,000 languages in the world today. Some experts say the majority are on the verge of disappearance. NPR's Dean Olsher considers the rapid deaths of many of the world's languages -- like Papua New Guinea's Arapesh -- and reports on the debate in the linguistic community over the need to intervene and save them.

A tribute to Jack Mullin, the engineer who introduced German tape recorders to America after World War II. Soon thereafter Bing Crosby started using them to pre-tape his radio show on ABC.

The new documentary The Corporation, which won an audience award at the Sundance Film Festival, takes a humorous approach to questioning the power multinational firms wield across the globe. The film analyzes corporations as if they were persons, and concludes most act like psychopaths. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.

The new film I, Robot turns sci-fi author Isaac Asimov's thoughtful short stories into a rip-roaring action flick -- while a screenplay regarded by many as a classic of the genre goes unfilmed. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports.

His new movie is A Door in the Floor, based on the best-selling John Irving novel A Widow for One Year. Bridges has starred in The Last Picture Show, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Tucker, The Big Lebowski, and Seabiscuit, among other films. He's been nominated for Academy Awards four times. (Originally broadcast on Oct. 29, 2003.)