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Filmmaker and actor Christopher Guest, best known for This Is Spinal Tap and Waiting for Guffman, picks TV and film comedies as well as violent and serious titles as well among his favorite DVDs to watch.

The curtain will go up Thursday on most of the Broadway shows that have been closed for 19 days by a stagehands strike. Stagehands and theater producers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday night on the fight, which has kept more than two dozen shows in the dark.

For National Poetry Month, young poet Emily Moore talks about how she got into poetry and why poetry is still relevant. She teaches English at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares and The Yale Review. In 2004, she received a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.

Michael Kimball has been writing people's life stories in 600 words or less since April 2008. The writer, who lives in Baltimore, says he was inspired to start the postcard project on his blog by a friend who was curating a performance art festival. Kimball tells NPR the exercise has changed him.

Gillian Clark, head chef and owner of Colorado Kitchen in Washington, D.C., suggests some seasonal treats for the Fourth of July. Clark shares her recipes with NPR's Andrea Seabrook.

President Bush says reforming social security will be a top priority during his second term. He wants workers to be able to divert some of their payroll taxes into private accounts. They could invest that money in stocks and bonds to save for their own retirement. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports on what privatization could mean, and how it might be done.

A powerful winter storm walloped a huge swath of the U.S., killing at least 25 people. Electricity is out for hundreds of thousands, and freezing rain and snow have coated streets.

The paralyzing virus had seemed on the verge of disappearing. But this year cases are being reported in 10 countries. The World Health Organization has responded with strict vaccination rules.

The city shut down the station in 1945 on New Year's Eve. Eighty years later, it's a symbolic venue choice for the incoming mayor's private swearing-in ceremony.

In 1939, the character of Mr. Smith — played by Jimmy Stewart — spent 25 hours on the Senate floor railing against corruption.