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Music critic Milo Miles reviews Mi Sueño, the posthumous album from Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer, who made a name for himself in his later years as a member of the Buena Vista Social Club. Ferrer died in 2005, at age 78.

Shrek the Third isn't a great hand-hold movie (action for the kiddies, pop-culture cleverness for the folks), but it's a flat-out triumph of comedy writing, and its slob-happy world view still has appeal.

On TV's Rescue Me, the comic, actor and writer Denis Leary plays a highly strung, highly macho fireman Tommy Gavin, who deals with raging fires and his own raging male ego. Season 4 starts next week on the FX network.

In his new novel, Falling Man, Don DeLillo, one of the most admired American writers, squarely faces the awful events of Sept. 11, 2001, with eyes wide open. DeLillo narrates the viewpoints of a number of people — including one of the hijackers — in prose both exquisite and exhausting.

Virginia filmmaker Tom Davenport is best known for his movie adaptations of Brothers Grimm fairy tales — set in Appalachia. Now he spends much of his time making sure people see the work of other filmmakers. His Folkstreams.net is an online archive for documentaries on a range of folk culture, virtually all of them impossible to find anywhere else.

The Van Cliburn Foundation's Fifth annual International Competition for Outstanding Amateurs is underway this week. NPR's John Ydstie talks to one of the semifinalists, 46-year-old Greg Fisher, a former child prodigy who has worked at his family's glass and mirror installation company in Edmond, Okla., for the past 30 years.

The premise of Knocked Up is as blunt — as basic — as its title: An attractive and newly successful TV correspondent becomes pregnant after a drunken one-night stand with Ben, who's not just unsuitable but an unholy monument to self-indulgence. Judd Apatow's film is conventional, even conservative, but somehow it plays like one of the hippest movies ever made.

Bug, the new psychological thriller from Exorcist director William Friedkin, got its start as a paranoia-driven stage play by actor-writer Tracy Letts. The film version features Ashley Judd as well as Michael Shannon, who starred in the Off-Broadway production.

Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) is king of the dirty-minded-but-sweet relationship comedy, and the chemistry in his latest makes for a screwball movie with a pretty big heart.

There are exactly 103 roads named after Catholic saints in Los Angeles. J. Michael Walker has spent eight years exploring these roads and avenues, researching their namesake saints and finding connections with the people who inhabit them.