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Michael Winterbottom's latest comedy is Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story. It's based on an experimental comic novel from the 18th century. The movie is as tricky as its source material.

Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach is released Tuesday, reportedly incorporating many of the things that made Dungeons & Dragons attractive in the decades before computer games.

John Peterson was accused of turning his family farm into a haven for devil-worship, drugs, and orgies. But the flamboyant farmer eventually thrived by going organic. The Real Dirt on Farmer John tells his story.

Rabih Abou-Khalil might be considered a bit blasphemous for playing the oud — a pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument native to the Middle East — as if he were a jazz guitarist.

In your list of pet peeves, one of them has to be cell phones going off in the concert hall. Marc-Andre Hamelin has the panacaea for when this happens. It's his "Irritation Waltz." He plays it in the studio of NPR member station WGBH in Boston, along with the Brahms Intermezzo, Op. 119, No. 1.

The delicate relationship between an art school teacher with a secret Nazi heritage and an Israeli artist's model is the focus of Blue Nude, the latest novel by Elizabeth Rosner. Veronique de Turenne offers a review.

Saxophonist Jackie McLean died on Friday at the age of 75. He played with many of the greats, including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey and Charles Mingus. We offer an appreciation.

Ed Gordon remembers Gordon Parks, who died on Tuesday. Parks captured black America as a photographer for Life magazine and became Hollywood's first major black director with the "blacksploitation" hit Shaft. Parks was 93 years old.

In his book The Women's House of Detention, Hugh Ryan writes about the New York City prison and the role it played in the gay rights movement of the '60s, including the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.

The latest project from playwright David Mamet teams him up with Sean Ryan, who created the FX series The Shield. The pair's new show is The Unit, about a covert military unit.