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Top Picks: Paul Rishell's old country blues, a new novel on the Tudors, and moreRonald Reagan offers advice for all bridegrooms, PBS airs the documentary about soldiers on the battlefield and at home, 'Hell and Back Again,' and more top picks.
'You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll read the book!'Book trailers are becoming essential marketing tools for the publishing industry.
Top Picks: Historian Niall Ferguson on PBS, Carole King's demos, and moreNational Geographic's digital edition shines on the iPad, an old newsreel shows window washers in 1938, and more top picks.
Top Picks: The soundtrack to the HBO series Treme, CNN's series about the postwar era, and more top picksNational Geographic follows paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and his family, a videographer uniquely captures his children's lives, and more top picks.
Top Picks: A documentary about a sushi restaurant, Johnny Carson, and moreKids try out narrating nature documentaries, Karmin irresistably covers R&B and hip-hop hits, and more top picks.
Top Picks: TEDTalks on Netflix, a family circus on PBS, and moreMartin Scorsese examines the Quiet Beatle, Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem supply old-fashioned country music, and more top picks.
'Half the Sky' exhibition hopes to inspire actionBased on the Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn book, the 'Half the Sky' exhibition in L.A. looks at oppression of women around the globe and ways to strengthen and empower them through education and jobs.
Top Picks: Bonnie Raitt's newest CD, a 'Frontline' feature on Wall Street, and more'Missing' on ABC is fun for its globe-trotting, Nat Geo Wild offers an in-depth look at India, and more top picks.
New Orleans's post-Katrina artistic revival is in full swingGalleries are flourishing despite the market and indie movies are on a roll – jumpstarting the whole arts scenes, but to a slightly different rhythm.
Top Picks: 'Once' as a musical, 'Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol,' and morePBS's romance 'Birdsong' will appeal to 'Downton Abbey' fans, 'Revenge of the Electric Car' explores why the plug was pulled on the electric car, and more top picks.
Top Picks: The man behind Elmo, 'I'm Dickens...He's Fenster,' and moreHusband and wife duo Amadou & Mariam release a new album, a film quiz mixes movies with numbers, the video game 'Journey' explores human interaction, and more top picks.
Top Picks: 'I, Claudius,' improv on the subway, and moreMarlon Brando and Vivien Leigh make film history in 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' a documentary tells the story of starlet0turned nun Dolores Hart, NASA captures video of swirling plasma on the sun, and more top picks.
Top Picks: 'Agent 6,' alien diplomacy, and moreGillian Anderson plays a tragic bride in a new 'Great Expectations,' 'American Masters' explores the lives of authors Harper Lee and Margaret Mitchell, master spy George Smiley is brought to life by actor Gary Oldman, and more top picks.
Top Picks: 'The Adventures of Tintin,' Philip Glass's opera 'Satyagraha,' and moreBruce Springsteen mixes genres on a new album, Cooking Light reveals the 41 most common cooking mistakes, Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' offers a more male-based cast, and more top picks.
Top Picks: A tribute to John Williams, exploring a 'Frozen Planet,' and moreSteve Martin tweets about 'The Da Vinci Code' and the Super Bowl, Nada Surf banishes the March blues, the Environmental Film Festival in Washington, D.C. includes a preview by Ken Burns, and more top picks.
Cities are banking on the artsOnce the first thing to be cut in a time of recession, the arts are proving their worth.
Top Picks: Tenor Salvatore Licitra, the miniseries 'On Death Row,' and more top picksSinger/songwriter Amos Lee and his band craft a funky, acoustic EP, composite sketch software creates images of literary characters, Hipcycle lets you be trendy and green, and more top picks.
- Top Picks: Woody Allen's 'Manhattan,' an all-star blues concert, and more top picks
One website shows Google and Twitter's first days on the Internet, saxophonist and composer Tim Berne releases a new album, 'American Masters' celebrates jazz legend Cab Calloway, and more top picks.
India reinvents its vibrant colorsExports revived India's iconic hand-block textile industry in the 1970s; now labor and water woes threaten it.
- Top Picks: Oscar-nominated shorts, Paul McCartney's new album, and more
A photography series shows the artist behind the famous image, Chip Taylor & the Grandkids create a charming album for all ages, 'American Experience' profiles Clinton, and more top picks.
