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Music critic John Brady reviews Who's Your New Professor, the second solo CD by Chicago musician Sam Prekop, leader of the alternative rock band The Sea and Cake.

Conductor Marin Alsop was appointed Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra earlier this week over strenuous objections from many of the orchestra's musicians. Alsop talks with Fred Child about the appointment, the controversy, and the symphony's future.

The well-known musical The Sound of Music is set in Austria, and yet it has never been before performed in a major theater in Vienna. Until now. Scott Simon talks with Renaud Doucet, who directed the musical's opening at the Volksoper Theater in Vienna in February.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews Old Boy, a South Korean film that won the Grand Jury Prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival.

Body Worlds, a popular exhibit of preserved human corpses, was recently robbed of a 13-week-old preserved fetus while on display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. NPR's Luke Burbank reports on the theft.

There's a new incentive for Cleveland residents to patron the city's art scene during the work week: more sleep. To help reinvigorate local arts, Cleveland tourism officials are touting a program called "Late Out, Late In." Employees can arrive at work two hours late if they attend an arts event the night before.

A Maryland man is encouraging strangers to send him postcards containing messages with their deepest secrets. Frank Warren tells Michele Norris about Postsecret.com.

Day to Day television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews the new ABC show Jake in Progress starring John Stamos. Wallenstein takes on those who think the program is the male answer to the ribald HBO hit show Sex and the City.

Critic Edelstein looks at The Best of Youth, a six-hour drama first shown on Italian television.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews Diary of a Mad Black Woman, starring Tyler Perry and Cicely Tyson.