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Costa Rican artist Guillermo Vargas tied up an emaciated dog and reportedly left it to starve. In considering whether such projects constitute art, New York University professor Randy Martin discusses the shocking, the controversial and the profound.

A museum touring Eastern Europe makes use of old love letters and gifts from relationships gone wrong. The Museum of Broken Relationships gives new life to the leftovers from break-ups, one-night stands and ugly divorces. Scott Simon talks to the museum founders.

Hollywood's favorite stoners just want to get to Amsterdam, but a misheard comment puts them on the wrong side of homeland security. From there, it's one scrape after another as the two undertake a quest to prove their innocence.

A University of Alabama building will share the names of a Klan leader and its first Black student

Kyle Chandler plays Coach Eric Taylor on Friday Night Lights, the NBC-TV series about the big drama of small-town Texas high-school football. The third season of the series will be shown on DirecTV before airing on NBC in 2009.

His given name is Jeffrey Lebowski — but the stoner hero of The Big Lebowski prefers to be called the Dude. As Guy Raz discovers, he's part fiction, part reality. But there's a little Dude in each of us.

When a billionaire weapons inventor is kidnapped and forced to build a deadly device, he turns the tables — building himself a futuristic armored suit and flying off to save the world.

"Age is just a number. It's just about how you feel. I'm not thinking like, 'I'm 35, I'm too old,' hell no," Wüst said after her latest Olympic feat.

Greenwood says writing the music for The Power of the Dog allowed him to experiment by mixing a banjo and a string quartet. He also recently scored Spencer and Licorice Pizza.

Fresh Air TV critic David Bianculli reviews DVD collections of British TV shows, including a few series that have never before been televised in the U.S. Highlights include Fortysomething, a six-part comedy series starring Hugh Laurie, and Helen Mirren at the BBC.