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Top Picks: Understanding Art: Impressionism on DVD, an app that hails a taxi, and moreSinger/songwriter Sean Rowe's debut album has riveting vocals and interesting stories, 'The Avengers' is available for home viewing, and more top picks.
Top Picks: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, country musician Kathy Mattea's new album, and moreTime answers classic childhood questions, PBS's 'American Masters' examines the life of Carl Sandburg, and more top picks.
Top Picks: A radio show about visual design, Wagner's Ring Cycle, and moreTraffic app Waze warns you of roadblocks ahead, pianist and composer David Greilsammer performs classic and contemporary compositions, and more.
Top Picks: Teenagers going to Broadway, an Asian cuisine cookbook, and morePaul McCartney's concert event comes to PBS, a 'Downton Abbey' season 3 clip debuts online, and more top picks.
- Tiny creatures with hip names
More new species to name means scientists are reaching out to pop culture.
Top Picks: IntoNow multitasking, running medalists, and moreNPR provides recordings of Newport Folk and Jazz Festival performances, 'The Hunger Games' arrives on DVD and Blu-ray, and more top picks.
Top Picks: The Forsyte Saga in a box set, the Blank on Blank podcast, and moreA webcam observes bears looking for a meal, "Jaws" arrives on Blu-ray, and more top picks.
From rock to country and backGrace Potter & The Nocturnals sample country with a spot on Kenny Chesney's tour.
Top Picks: The History Here phone app, Missy Higgins' new album, and more'High Noon' is still powerful on Blu-ray, Julia Child fans celebrate her birthday through PBS, and more top picks.
- Role reversals on stage
Women taking on male Shakespeare roles is nothing new.
Hollywood aims to please ... China?When offending China would mean losing a big percent of film grosses, filmmakers tread carefully.
Top Picks: Ernie Kovacs' lost tape, Bibi Tanga's new album, and moreOne man explores rock history in 12 minutes, 'Singin' in the Rain' gets an anniversary edition, and more top picks.
Top Picks: 'Reading Rainbow,' Ridley Pearson's The Risk Agent, and more'Up Heartbreak Hill' follows Navajo teen athletes struggling with their future, James May explores how technology has revolutionized modern life, and more top picks.
Top Picks: Dr. Seuss on DVD, the PBS Arts Summer Festival, and moreThe social magazine Flipboard comes to Android, the Canadian duo Japandroids makes everyone sing along, and more top picks.
Top Picks: Fourth of July celebrations, the Olympics on Facebook, and moreAn iPhone game gets a 'Brave' makeover, musician Mike Stern has mass appeal, and more top picks.
Top Picks: a Whole Foods summer initiative, a 1980s miniseries, and moreA new app brings a Chinese folk tale to glowing life, PBS's four-part series 'Queen & Country' explores the British monarchy, and more top picks.
Top Picks: The Beach Boys' new album, a book on self-employment, and moreA short film charts skateboarding in Afghanistan, Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law star as Holmes and his sidekick in 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,' and more top picks.
Tony Awards put Broadway's booming box office on displayThe Tony Awards showed theater's freshness and creativity, but rampant Hollywood stars and high ticket prices are making Broadway less accessible to the masses, say critics.
Top picks: A video by Croatian cellists, Michelle Obama's new book, and moreSinger Melody Gardot embraces multiculturalism, noir writer Philip Kerr pens another winner with 'Prague Fatale,' and more top picks.
Top Picks: An alligator app, great commencement speeches, and moreJohn Mayer's musicianship is first-rate on his new album, National Geographic explores the unusual animals of America, and more top picks.
