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As summer approaches, parents are debating whether the vacation is for play or more learning. In this weekly parenting segment, host Michel Martin hears from Joan Almon, Alliance for Childhood executive director; Elena Silva, Education Sector senior policy director; Connie Schultz, mother and The Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist; and Dani Tucker, Tell Me More's regular parenting contributor.

In a Disney Store in Southern California, displays include playful child-size mannequins that encourage shoppers to interact with the merchandise.

Daniel Auteuil is an antiques dealer with a problem: He's got no best friend, and he needs one to win a bet. He hires a cabbie to pose as his best buddy, and the result is an agreeable tale of male bonding, French style.

Newsweek entertainment writer Allison Samuels weighs in on the latest show business news, including Snoop Dogg's reality show, Don Cheadle's latest film, and David Beckham's "celebrity black man" status in England.

Artist Edward Hopper is best known for provocative, shadowy oil paintings of people in urban settings — diners, offices and bedrooms. But the work that put Hopper on the map is a watercolor of an elegant, light-drenched house in Gloucester, Mass.

Natasha Trethewey was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection Native Guard. Trethewey grew up bi-racial in Mississippi, and her mother was murdered by her stepfather; these, along with the South, are recurring themes in her poetry.

Smashing Pumpkins was one of the biggest alternative rock success stories of the 1990s. Now famously bald-headed lead singer Billy Corgan has reunited with one of his original bandmates, drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, to release the first new Smashing Pumpkins album in seven years: Zeitgeist.

Children are going to have to read fast to avoid finding out from others what happens in the long-awaited final book of the Harry Potter series. Young readers discuss strategies for keeping the ending secret.

As a reporter for Ebony and Jet magazines, Simeon Booker chronicled some the biggest social and political events of the 20th century. For 50 years, Booker's coverage of the civil rights movement was a fixture in many homes.

Summertime is when many major magazines publish their swim suit editions, influencing perceptions of beauty among scores of women readers. Editors from three ethnic magazines — East West, Essence and Latina — discuss why "skinny" might be fading as an industry standard.