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Music critic Christian Bordal reviews the new album by the New York indie-rock trio Girl Friday. Their new self-released CD is Swimmer.

First it was a book, then a movie. Now, it's an HBO show.

The animated feature Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is the latest big-screen adventure featuring an inept man and a clever dog. The characters, fan favorites in Great Britain, are the work of Nick Park.

Although she has released five albums since 1999, singer-songwriter Laura Veirs remains largely unknown in the United States. Critic Tom Moon believes her new CD, Year of Meteors, will change that.

Slate advertising critic Seth Stevenson looks at a beer campaign that defies convention. With no silly jokes, scantily clad women or bumbling beer hounds, the Miller Brewing Company's new ads feature nostalgic old photos and emotive music to take the high road.

Debussy's groundbreaking work La Mer helped usher in the modern era of classical music and broke new ground in orchestration.

Author Salman Rushdie has a new book out. Shalimar the Clown is set in Kashmir, the volatile region bordering India and Pakistan that was recently devastated by an earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people.

Country bluesman R.L. Burnside died this week in Memphis at 78. He worked a good part of his life as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta. He made his first recording in his 40s and didn't become a fulltime professional musician until he was in his 60s.

Fayard Nicholas was part of the famous acrobatic dancing team the Nicholas Brothers. He died earlier this week at the age of 91. Fayard's brother and tap partner Harold Nicholas recalls their career together.

March of the Penguins is -- by far -- the surprise hit movie of the year. The film about the Emperor Penguins' extraordinary breeding cycle is now the second-highest-grossing documentary ever, just behind Fahrenheit 9/11. It's also the highest grossing French film ever released in the United States.