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Comedian Dave Chappelle is back on the big screen this weekend as host of a Brooklyn block party -- Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan looks at what movie critics are saying about Dave Chappelle's Block Party and the action films 16 Blocks and Ultraviolet.

Actor Seymour Cassel has roles in the new TV series Heist and the film Lonesome Jim. Cassel, who comes from a showbiz family, has been acting in film and TV since 1959. His mother worked in Burlesque, and Cassel grew up backstage, amid chorus girls and sequins.

Over the last decade Atlanta has become a mecca for black Americans and it serves as the backdrop for a new movie, ATL. Director Chris Robinson tells Ed Gordon about the coming-of-age tale, and why he set his first feature film in the city known as "Hotlanta."

Just about every successful rock band seems to have a side project these days. This month, an unlikely spinoff of the jam trio Medeski, Martin and Wood arrives -- a family affair known as the Wood Brothers. The duo's first CD is called Ways Not To Lose.

The Getty Trust, one of the largest foundations in the United States, has been under investigation for how it spends money as a non-profit organization. In the midst of the investigation, President and CEO Barry Munitz resigned. But some say that doesn't settle the matter.

This year's Pritzker Prize for Architecture -- the Nobel of the profession -- goes to Paulo Mendes da Rocha. The 78-year-old architect creates "honest" buildings, according to the Pritzker jury. For the past six decades, he has built high-rises, stadiums, houses and a chapel -- all in concrete.

The film Thank You for Smoking follows Nick Naylor, a tobacco lobbyist who defends the rights of smokers with snappy irony. Directed by Jason Reitman and starring Aaron Eckhart, the satire is based on Christopher Buckley's book of the same name.

Brothers Dave and Serge Bielanko of the band Marah talk about their music and its appeal to blue-collar listeners. The two formed the group in 1993 with a sound that's part country, part blues, part classic rock. They recently released their fifth studio album of original material, If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry.

A modest new documentary from the West African nation of Cameroon has been getting rave reviews at some of the world's most prestigious film festivals. Sisters In Law follows the saga of two female attorneys taking on entrenched attitudes to find justice for women.

For nearly 2,000 years the Dead Sea Scrolls sat undisturbed, hidden in a honeycomb of caves in the Judean desert. Now one of the most important scrolls, a religious critique known as the Temple Scroll, is making its first appearance in the United States, at a museum in Cleveland.