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Kay Thompson was a musical director for MGM Studios, the author of the Eloise children's books and the star of her own long-running nightclub act. Liza Minnelli pays tribute to her real-life godmother in her latest, sold-out revue.

A failed TV pilot's new life online shows how networks are trying to harness the fringe fiefdoms of Web video. For NBC, the Web is a frontier for new content, and a way to cement the communities around its broadcast shows.

It's our first-ever show in Buffalo, so we invited royalty. Myles Stubblefield is a vermiculturist known as the Worm King of Buffalo, but what does he know about musical earworms?

In 1983, millions of Americans gathered to watch a made-for-TV movie depicting life after a nuclear attack on a small town in Kansas. The Day After aired at the height of the Cold War. Many see it as a great -- if somewhat campy -- achievement in nuclear-freeze paranoia. The director and others reflect on the movie's legacy. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports.

Toy designers Steve Ross and Jason Geyers uncovered a treasure trove of never released Star Wars accessories, from the Jabba the Hutt bean bag chair to the Death Star grill.

Norman Lear went from producing hit TV shows like All in the Family to political activism, including efforts to get young people to vote. The 85-year-old Lear says both involve a lifelong passion.

Director Frank Oz started his career as the voice of Miss Piggy, the Cookie Monster and other Muppets. As a director, he had made star-powered movies such as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. His latest film, Death at a Funeral, is a dark comedy with a cast not well known outside the U.K.

Paul Poiret, the self-described "King of Fashion," is largely credited for freeing women from corsets and introducing them to pantaloons. A major retrospective of the French designer's work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates his eclectic designs.

Kevin Spacey's revival of the Eugene O'Neill play A Moon for the Misbegotten opens Monday on Broadway. He initially staged the play in his role as artistic director for the historic London theater the Old Vic.

Singer-songwriter Joseph "Amp" Fiddler's debut CD, Waltz of a Ghetto Fly, is a fusion of classic Detroit soul and modern electronic funk. Day to Day producer Christopher Johnson talks with Fiddler.

Simon and Garfunkel made some of the most memorable music of the 1960s and '70s. They are back together on tour, performing old favorites and a new song.

The Chilean jazz vocalist makes a lasting impression at the Tiny Desk.

There have been reports of the seat detaching during use, causing injuries. This is Peloton's second recall for its machines. Two years ago, the company recalled its Tread+ exercise machines.

With a who's who of forward-thinking guitarists, Bill Orcutt brings his ecstatic minimalism to the Tiny Desk.

Fed Chairman Benjamin Bernanke calls for China to reduce its massive trade surplus. Among his suggestions: enact policies to increase China's consumer spending; embrace more flexibility in the exchange rate; and develop more of a 'social safety net', so that households will be less preoccupied with saving and more willing to invest.

Poor Iphigeneia. She comes from Greek drama's most dysfunctional family — matricide, patricide and madness. It's all in her past, but somehow she triumphs in Christoph Willibald Gluck's emotional drama, Iphigenie en Tauride, from the stage of the Paris Opéra.

The Portuguese guitarist brings listeners into her journey of heartbreak.

Pushkin's grim tale of greed and obsession gets even darker in Tchaikovsky's opera, The Queen of Spades. Renowned tenor Neil Shicoff is the love-obsessed Hermann and soprano Martina Serafin plays his victim, at the Vienna State Opera.

The Irish singer brings a plaintive, pensive atmosphere to the Tiny Desk.

The U.S. government says it is safe to eat tomatoes again. It lifted its salmonella warning after its investigation of what caused the outbreak found no evidence of the bacteria. Investigators are now taking their search to a packing facility in Mexico.