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Jubilant Sykes is an artist who feels at home with all kinds of music -- from Bach to Billboard to Broadway standards. With his latest CD, "Wait For Me," the baritone singer adds folk, pop and gospel to his repertory. All Things Considered host Michele Norris talks with the classically trained musician about his passion, his faith and his fierce work ethic.

From Stagecoach to The Graduate, movies have helped to shape our world. Nick Clooney, former host of cable's American Movie Classics, joins NPR's Bob Edwards to talk about his new book, The Movies That Changed Us: Reflections on the Screen. NPR Online has the list of the 20 movies featured in Clooney's book.

Today's literature for young adults tackles mature topics with increasing complexity. Critics say traditional coming-of-age stories are being told with fewer value judgments and easy, moralistic answers for life's problems. NPR's Jason DeRose reports.

From cowboys on the dusty trail who sang to their cattle at night, to Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and other stars of the silver screen, the legend of the singing cowboy is part of the American landscape. NPR's Bob Edwards interviews Douglas B. Green, author of Singing in the Saddle.

Before Survivor and The Real World, reality television began on public TV back in 1973 with the Loud family. The star of the series, An American Family, was 19-year-old Lance, the first openly gay person on TV. Before he died last year, Lance Loud helped the documentary producers create a final chapter for the series. NPR's Susan Stone reports.

Actress Julianne Moore has major roles in two films evoking the 1950s that are currently in theaters: Far From Heaven and The Hours. Same era, very different characters, Moore says. She speaks with NPR's Michele Norris.

Leif Inge, an artist based in Oslo, Norway, has a new take on Ludwig van Beethoven's venerable Symphony no. 9.

Rebecca Miller's movie Personal Velocity, winner of two Sundance awards, opens around the country. The filmmaker and daughter of playwright Arthur Miller talks with NPR's Liane Hansen.

The Hours is a new film based on Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the writer Virginia Woolf and two women living in a later time who Woolf profoundly influences. Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore star. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.

The very fact that certain foods are even on the menu in most American restaurants today tells a story of how Africans came to this country, and what happened when they got here. Talk of the Nation looks at the story of African-Americans through the lens of soul food.