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To celebrate the longest day of the year, Scott Carrier and some friends visited an obscure art installation in the middle of the Utah desert where concrete tunnels are aligned to channel the sun's rays at precise celestial moments.

Composer Edgar Meyer's self-titled CD takes advantage of his many talents. Jacki Lyden visits Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, where Meyer also finds time to teach, for a conversation with a musical master.

The USA Network recently announced a seven-part television series following competitions on the Major League Gaming tour. The tour follows top-tier video gamers who travel from city to city competing in tournaments. Madeleine Brand speaks to Major League Gaming's co-founder, Sundance DiGiovanni, about bringing the tour to television.

With a versatile mixture of catchy melodies, lush harmonies and lazy organs and horns, The Long Winters' members craft clever, shimmering pop. Few of the group's songs stray from topics revolving around love gone wrong, but singer-songwriter John Roderick rarely takes the expected road.

Claire Messud discusses her new novel, The Emperor's Children, set in New York City in 2001. Though her characters share in the Sept. 11 tragedy, the attack is not the focus of the book. Messud explains why.

This summer, at the Culture Project in New York City, five South African actors are telling their "true life" stories about growing up under apartheid. The piece is called Amajuba : Like Doves We Rise.

The group Las Rubias del Norte is led by a pair of singers from Brooklyn who found inspiration in the songs of Tejana singer Lydia Mendoza and other music of South America.

As many as 400,000 veterans of U.S. wars are homeless at least part of the time, including hundreds recently returned from Iraq. A documentary follows the plight of many of those vets, including one who appeals for help on Capitol Hill.

Producers of independent television gathered in Los Angeles over the weekend to attend what event organizers billed as the first independent television festival.

The new television drama Saved explores the work and personal lives of emergency rescue teams. Saved debuts Monday night on TNT -- Day to Day television critic Andrew Wallenstein tells us whether viewers should save a spot in their schedule for the show.