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A Maryland man is encouraging strangers to send him postcards containing messages with their deepest secrets. Frank Warren tells Michele Norris about Postsecret.com.

Critic Edelstein looks at The Best of Youth, a six-hour drama first shown on Italian television.

The BBC held its Planet Music Awards last month to honor the best of world music. The winners are now featured on a CD called Awards for World Music 2005.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews Diary of a Mad Black Woman, starring Tyler Perry and Cicely Tyson.

McDaniel played Lt. James Fancy, Andy Sipowicz' boss, on NYPD Blue. McDaniel has been in many films, including Malcolm X and Sunshine State, and has appeared on a number of TV shows, including Stargate SG-1, All My Children and Hill Street Blues. This interview was originally broadcast on Dec. 10, 1996.

Bill Clark is a consultant to the show NYPD Blue. Clark is a former New York City homicide detective. Clark and producer David Milch discuss how many of the story lines for the show come from cases Clark worked on. This interview was originally broadcast on Nov. 1, 1995.

Milch co-created NYPD Blue, for which he won two Emmys. He is the creator, executive producer and head writer of the current HBO series Deadwood, a Western drama set in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Milch left a teaching job at Yale University to go to Hollywood and work on the show Hill Street Blues. This interview was originally broadcast on March 25, 2004.

Body Worlds, a popular exhibit of preserved human corpses, was recently robbed of a 13-week-old preserved fetus while on display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. NPR's Luke Burbank reports on the theft.

There's a new incentive for Cleveland residents to patron the city's art scene during the work week: more sleep. To help reinvigorate local arts, Cleveland tourism officials are touting a program called "Late Out, Late In." Employees can arrive at work two hours late if they attend an arts event the night before.

Rock critic Ed Ward finds a forgotten chapter of American pop history: the 1940s sound of East Los Angeles. Hear original recordings of vintage Latin music collected on the new CD Pachuco Boogie, from Arhoolie Records.