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As the alcoholic paterfamilias Frank Gallagher on the Showtime series Shameless, the actor enjoys portraying a man with a dark side. But he says it's Frank's better qualities that make him sustainable as a character.

William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience won the Grammys for best classical album, choral performance, and classical contemporary composition at Wednesday's awards ceremony. Other awards went to the London Symphony and singer Thomas Quasthoff.

Rossini's 'William Tell Overture' is more famous as the Lone Ranger's theme music than in the opera house. But the opera itself more than lives up to its inspiring curtain raiser.

The bankruptcy filing of a Texas toll road operator this week has state transportation officials reassessing plans for toll lanes on I-77. And toll…

Attorneys for death row inmate Stanley Tookie Williams meet Thursday with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. They will argue for clemency for the Crips' co-founder and for commuting his sentence to life in prison without parole. Williams is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 13.

William "Lynn" Weaver, whose StoryCorps interviews have been among the most memorable, died on Saturday. He came to StoryCorps many times — to pay tribute to his father and remember his childhood.

No historical fakery: Here's the real music of the Elizabethan era.

Actor Treat Williams, whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series "Everwood" and the movie "Hair," died Monday after a motorcycle crash in Vermont, state police said. He was 71.

Professor and author James Shapiro talks about A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599. The book provides a look into the daily life of the playwright during a time of personal upheaval and prodigious creativity.

The 26-year-old country singer is a student of old-line outlaw country and its tradition of leathery, knowing tall talk.

At age 90, the Star Trek actor is poised to become the oldest person ever to visit space. "It's never too late to experience new things," Shatner said on Monday.

William Jackson Harper shares where he was (physically and emotionally) when he was cast on 'The Good Place.' Then NYT ethics columnist Kwame Anthony Appiah joins him in a game about everyday ethics.

As an aspiring writer, William Lychack was lucky enough to be mentored by his literary hero, longtime New Yorker editor, William Maxwell. Maxwell's novel, So Long, See You Tomorrow, is a meditation on loss and forgiveness; Lychack says every page is touched by care, like rooms of a beautiful house.

William Shatner was excited to go to space last year. He didn't realize he'd be overwhelmed with sadness and go through "the strongest feelings of grief" that he'd ever experienced.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to sportswriter Clinton Yates, of ESPN's The Undefeated about Serena Williams, who defeated her sister Venus to win the Australian Open — her 23rd Grand Slam win.

The hitter had a swing so pure and flawless that Mickey Mantle would watch him take batting practice. But he was also a tormented soul who hurt a lot of people, including himself. Ben Bradlee Jr. delivers a deeply personal account of Williams' life in The Kid.

The author is almost solely responsible for conservatism as we know it in America today. A new biography traces the rise of the conservative movement from Buckley's time as a firebrand Yale undergrad to his years as the editor of the conservative journal National Review.

Lynch's exit comes just two weeks after the bookseller announced it was shelving its goal of becoming a player in the tablet business. Lynch has a tech background, and as CEO focused his attention on the Nook digital business. But the quarter that just ended showed huge losses for the digital devices.

Hank Williams owned one of the greatest voices in the history of recording. Hear his daughter Jett Williams and biographer Colin Escott discuss his legacy and the new box set of previously unreleased Hank Williams recordings.

NPR's Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro talk with Deadspin columnist Drew Magary about his hater's guide to the Williams-Sonoma catalog.