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  • The new comedy The Man stars actor and comic Eugene Levy. He's also had memorable roles in Splash, Best in Show and the American Pie movies. Levy was part of the original cast of Second City TV or SCTV, which also featured Martin Short and the late John Candy.
  • The 34-nation Summit of the Americas concludes in Mar del Plata, Argentina, with little apparent progress on a free-trade area promoted by President Bush. The meeting was overshadowed by violent anti-Bush protests.
  • Criminal charges against former White House aide I. Lewis Libby have focused new attention on the man he worked for. Vice President Dick Cheney's support for the Iraq war and his ideas about the treatment of detainees have drawn criticism.
  • New Orleans is opening its doors to businesses and residents in nearly half of the city's zip codes. But power is out still in many areas, and the water isn't safe. Health Department officials warn about letting people return too soon.
  • In the early 1980s, commentator Alexs Pate worked for a company called City Venture Corporation, which pooled big companies' resources to tackle inner-city poverty. It failed. Now, Pate says, it's time to try again to involve corporate America in the inner city. Pate is the author of the novel Amistad and is an assistant professor in African American and African Studies at the University of Minnesota.
  • The U.S. promised to slash its emissions and send tens of billions of dollars to low-lying and less well-off nations. The war in Ukraine is delaying that even as the toll from climate change rises.
  • Director Malcolm Lee's new film is as much about family as it is roller skating. The film is set in the golden era of 1970s roller-skate jams, a coming-of-age comedy starring hip-hop star Bow Wow.
  • For many music listeners, a band's identity is inextricably tied to the lead singer. But the founding brothers of the British group Morcheeba decided to buck that conventional wisdom by parting ways with one singer and creating a new sound with someone else.
  • E.J. Dionne, a columnist for The Washington Post and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times discuss Rep. Tom DeLay's indictment by a Texas grand jury with conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme. He is temporarily stepping down from his post of House majority leader.
  • Country crooner Brad Paisley doesn't believe in taking himself too seriously. One of the songs on his new CD, Time Well Wasted, laments the needless death of flowers in the name of love.
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