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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.
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.
