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Hotel is the new CD by the electronic musician Moby. Moby's 1999 CD Play mixed old blues and gospel music with modern electronica. Music critic Mikel Jollett feels a bit nostalgic for the old days of the 90's after hearing the new Moby CD. He says it doesn't have the spark of his older work.

The FBI has cited information compiled by online sleuths in many of the more than 730 riot-related cases filed in federal court so far.

Playwright David Henry Hwang's award-winning plays include 1980's FOB (or "Fresh Off the Boat") and M. Butterfly. For our series Scenes I Wish I'd Written, Hwang discusses an exchange from Tony Kushner's play Angels in America.

Screenwriter Simon Nye's most recent work is the Pollyanna, showing Sunday night on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. Nye talks to NPR's Liane Hansen about the challenges -- and "glad things" -- about working with Eleanor H. Porter's 1913 novel.

Writer Suzan-Lori Parks has won acclaim for depictions of African-American life. The author of Topdog/Underdog discusses two of her favorite dramatic scenes, from The Sound of Music and Taxi Driver.

Architect and author Christopher Alexander recently issued the final book of his four-volume tome, The Nature of Order, In it, he attempts to define and understand the "life" and livability of structures, spaces and cities.

"Danza Voluminosa" is an unconventional dance group -- whose performances are part-ballet, part-contemporary dance. But the dancers are larger than most weighing in around 200 pounds. Their choreographer says the company is creating a new aesthetic. NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reports.

The latest work from the author of In the Company of Men premieres at New York's Lucille Lortel Theater. Neil LaBute's Fat Pig tells the story of a weight-challenged woman and a gutless executive who fall in love. Andrea Shea reports.

Los Angeles Times movie critic Kenneth Turan says the film Alexander, starring Colin Ferrell as the conqueror Alexander the Great, plays like a fantasy self portrait of writer-director Oliver Stone.

Actress Carol Channing is back on the road in The First 80 Years Are The Hardest. The octogenarian is touring in a one-woman show.