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Top Picks: IntoNow multitasking, running medalists, and moreNPR provides recordings of Newport Folk and Jazz Festival performances, 'The Hunger Games' arrives on DVD and Blu-ray, and more top picks.
Top Picks: The Forsyte Saga in a box set, the Blank on Blank podcast, and moreA webcam observes bears looking for a meal, "Jaws" arrives on Blu-ray, and more top picks.
From rock to country and backGrace Potter & The Nocturnals sample country with a spot on Kenny Chesney's tour.
Top Picks: The History Here phone app, Missy Higgins' new album, and more'High Noon' is still powerful on Blu-ray, Julia Child fans celebrate her birthday through PBS, and more top picks.- Role reversals on stageWomen taking on male Shakespeare roles is nothing new.
Hollywood aims to please ... China?When offending China would mean losing a big percent of film grosses, filmmakers tread carefully.
Top Picks: Ernie Kovacs' lost tape, Bibi Tanga's new album, and moreOne man explores rock history in 12 minutes, 'Singin' in the Rain' gets an anniversary edition, and more top picks.
Top Picks: 'Reading Rainbow,' Ridley Pearson's The Risk Agent, and more'Up Heartbreak Hill' follows Navajo teen athletes struggling with their future, James May explores how technology has revolutionized modern life, and more top picks.
Top Picks: Dr. Seuss on DVD, the PBS Arts Summer Festival, and moreThe social magazine Flipboard comes to Android, the Canadian duo Japandroids makes everyone sing along, and more top picks.
Top Picks: Fourth of July celebrations, the Olympics on Facebook, and moreAn iPhone game gets a 'Brave' makeover, musician Mike Stern has mass appeal, and more top picks.
Top Picks: a Whole Foods summer initiative, a 1980s miniseries, and moreA new app brings a Chinese folk tale to glowing life, PBS's four-part series 'Queen & Country' explores the British monarchy, and more top picks.
Top Picks: The Beach Boys' new album, a book on self-employment, and moreA short film charts skateboarding in Afghanistan, Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law star as Holmes and his sidekick in 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,' and more top picks.
Tony Awards put Broadway's booming box office on displayThe Tony Awards showed theater's freshness and creativity, but rampant Hollywood stars and high ticket prices are making Broadway less accessible to the masses, say critics.
Top picks: A video by Croatian cellists, Michelle Obama's new book, and moreSinger Melody Gardot embraces multiculturalism, noir writer Philip Kerr pens another winner with 'Prague Fatale,' and more top picks.
Top Picks: An alligator app, great commencement speeches, and moreJohn Mayer's musicianship is first-rate on his new album, National Geographic explores the unusual animals of America, and more top picks.
Top Picks: Paul Rishell's old country blues, a new novel on the Tudors, and moreRonald Reagan offers advice for all bridegrooms, PBS airs the documentary about soldiers on the battlefield and at home, 'Hell and Back Again,' and more top picks.
'You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll read the book!'Book trailers are becoming essential marketing tools for the publishing industry.
Top Picks: Historian Niall Ferguson on PBS, Carole King's demos, and moreNational Geographic's digital edition shines on the iPad, an old newsreel shows window washers in 1938, and more top picks.
Top Picks: The soundtrack to the HBO series Treme, CNN's series about the postwar era, and more top picksNational Geographic follows paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and his family, a videographer uniquely captures his children's lives, and more top picks.
Top Picks: A documentary about a sushi restaurant, Johnny Carson, and moreKids try out narrating nature documentaries, Karmin irresistably covers R&B and hip-hop hits, and more top picks.