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The phrase "extreme sports" may conjure up images of skiiers leaping from airplanes -- but probably not dodgeball. The one-time gym-class activity is becoming a hot sport, and there's a new television show dedicated to it. Day to Day TV critic Andrew Wallenstein takes a cynical look at GSN's Extreme Dodgeball.

Earlier this morning, several of the major online search engines went down, leaving the public unable to quickly research topics or answer those pressing trivia questions. One of the sites affected is Google, which, in a cruel irony, earlier today let us all know that a share of its stock is likely to go for over $100.

Slate book reviewer Aleksandar Hemon reviews what he calls the worst book he ever read voluntarily -- A Movie...and a Book, by first-time novelist Daniel Wagner. Hemon talks to NPR's Madeleine Brand about how the book reveals unfortunate trends in publishing.

A new science fiction museum has opened in Seattle as part of Paul Allen's high-tech Experience Music Project. The Microsoft billionaire, whose personal collection inspired the idea for a museum, hopes the facility attracts droves of sci-fi fans from around the galaxy. Jeremy Richards of member station KPLU reports.

A new sequel is in theaters, Before Sunset -- a follow-up to the 1995 movie Before Sunrise. The film from director Richard Linklater picks up nine years after his initial effort, finding the characters older, but not necessarily wiser. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review.

The Man Who Wasn’t There is the Coen brothers movie that actress Frances McDormand -- who’s married to Joel Coen -- called one of the pair's most personal. And this is the Coen brothers DVD that features what’s missing from the DVDs of their other movies: a commentary track by Joel and Ethan, with Billy Bob Thorton along for the ride.

A search is under way in Norway for the iconic painting The Scream, stolen Sunday morning from the Munch Museum. Armed men took the expressionist work by Edvard Munch and several other paintings during the museum's regular touring hours. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden and museum employee Jurunn Christoffersen.

Jean Kilbourne, author of Can't Buy My Love -- How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, says the media have created an ideal of beauty for young girls that is dangerously unachievable. Kilbourne speaks with NPR's Susan Stamberg in the second in a series of conversations on the nature of beauty.

Slate advertising critic Seth Stevenson sends an audio dispatch from an awards show that honors commercials not for their ability to sell things, but for their artistic merit.

Late-night veterans Jay Leno, David Letterman and even Johnny Carson all owe a debt of gratitude to Jack Paar, who first made late-night television safe for insomniacs. NPR's Bob Mondello reviews a new three-DVD "best of" collection of Paar's finest moments.