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Singer-songwriter Paul Simon, recipient of the first Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, began his career in 1964 as half of the '60s folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, delivering classics like "The Sound of Silence" and "Mrs. Robinson." He went on to a successful solo career, wrote film soundtracks and Broadway shows, and has even done some acting. This interview first aired on Dec. 11, 2000.

Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt stars in Ratatouille, the new animated feature from Pixar. He's also a writer and stand-up comic, who starred in his own comedy specials and appeared in the TV shows The King of Queens and Reno 911! He'll release a new comedy album, called Werewolves and Lollipops, on July 10.

The film Talk to Me is based on the life of Washington, D.C., radio announcer Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr. The smart-talking ex-convict, now regarded as one of the first shock jocks, was also a social activist and commentator.

19th-century Harvard students needed botanical models. They turned to a pair of glass artists who specialized in invertebrate zoology. The results, on display at the Corning Museum of Glass this summer, are so lifelike that they've inspired poets and novelists.

Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera star with the charming smile and the clean, silvery coloratura, died Monday at the age of 78. Fresh Air's classical music critic pays tribute.

Author and illustrator Jon Klassen is best known for children's books like I Want My Hat Back and This is Not My Hat. His latest, The Skull, is an adaptation of a traditional folktale.

Don Cheadle plays "Petey" Greene, an ex-con turned talk-radio DJ in '60s D.C.; when riots explode after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the loudmouth with a past discovers he's got the street cred to help a burning city bring itself back under control.

Technology guru Omar Wasow talks about Apple's latest gadget and what consumers should know about it, including alternative devices.

Beverly Sills, the most popular American opera singer of recent decades, has died. Entertainer Carol Burnett shares her memories of her professional relationship and friendship with Sills.

"A train plays" are created on NYC's longest subway line. Performers, writers, composers and directors have about a day to take a production from the first line on paper to its first performance.