"I'm the king of the world!" James Cameron proclaimed upon accepting his best director Oscar for "Titanic." In 1997 it was the most technically ambitious (and lucrative) movie ever made. This week an even more titanic Cameron film is headed for theaters: "Avatar." ...

Hear Kurt's full conversation with the director of "Avatar."

Every year the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress selects 25 recordings to be preserved for all time. One of this year's selections is the famous 1961 comedy routine by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner about a man so old, ...

As a security guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jason Eskenazi was used to directing visitors to the restrooms. But keeping watch at an exhibit of Robert Frank's photography project The Americans, Eskenazi turned his life around. Produced by Studio 360's

Is your Second Life slowly replacing your first life? Do you feel closer to video game characters than actual real humans? New media lets everyone construct virtual identities, but we shouldn't be too afraid of surrendering to technology. As Studio 360's Eric Molinsky discovers, our ...

Lydia Millet's first short story collection, Love in Infant Monkeys, is filled with fictionalized tales of celebrities' real-life confrontations with exotic species. She reads from her story "Sir Henry" about David Hasselhoff's dachshund and tells Kurt why she's not afraid of lawyers.

It's become a holiday tradition: every year, in cities around the world, hundreds of people show up at a public space with their old boomboxes to participate in Phil Kline's ambient, techno Christmas carol called "Unsilent Night." Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.