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A number of old Art Deco movie palaces across the country still feature live organ performances 30 to 60 minutes before film screenings. Some theaters occasionally feature old silent films with an organist playing his own composition as a soundtrack underneath. These musicians have an enthusiastic following and become celebrities — although most people only see the back of their heads.

A new blaxploitation spoof is getting some serious Sundance buzz. Meanwhile, this Sunday's inaugural pre-party at the Lincoln Memorial will wield high-wattage star power. For more, Farai Chideya talks with Allison Samuels, a national correspondent for Newsweek magazine.

New Orleans has had a rebirth as the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts reopened more than three years after Hurricane Katrina. The 2,100-seat theater is home to the city's symphony, ballet and opera. City officials hope it's the first of many more public venues to reopen this year.

A long time ago — back in 1999, to be precise — a posse of die-hard Star Wars fans road-trip across the country to steal an advance print of The Phantom Menace.

In Los Angeles, the financially troubled Museum of Contemporary Art gets a bailout from arts patron Eli Broad. He'll match donor funding dollar-for-dollar up to $15 million and will also give MOCA $3 million a year for exhibits over the next five years.

As part of NPR's "In Character" Series, Tony Cox profiles Fred Sanford. Sanford, the petulant character on the 1970s NBC sitcom "Sanford and Son," ran an antique shop and junkyard out of his Los Angeles home.

Director George Tillman Jr.'s Notorious, which follows the life and death of the rapper Biggie Smalls, opens in theaters this weekend. David Edelstein has a review.

Actor Kiefer Sutherland doesn't take his dramatic series 24 too seriously. He feels it's an honor to play agent Jack Bauer, and thinks the show has done "amazingly well" getting people to talk.

Singers, actors and dancers can stimulate audiences, but can they also stimulate the economy? The authors of the current stimulus package think so — they have included $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts and $150 million for infrastructure repairs at the Smithsonian.

The Oscar-nominated film Slumdog Millionaire is a small movie with a big heart, and perhaps no one appreciates its rags-to-riches theme as much as Dev Patel, the 18-year-old Londoner who plays the lead.