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The Director of Iraq's Museum of Antiquities talks about the looted treasures of Babylon, and the few that have made their way home.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the new CD by hip-hop artist Lyrics Born. It's called Same !@#$ Different Day.

Paul Haggis wrote the script for the Oscar-winning film Million Dollar Baby. For his initial shot at directing, he's picked a big subject: race and racism. Crash features a huge, diverse and mostly well-known cast.

Heard It on the X, the new album by Grammy winners Los Super 7, celebrates the golden age of radio along the U.S.-Mexico border.

A movie adaptation of Douglas Adams' science-fiction spoof The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy arrives in theaters this weekend. Bob Mondello says it's a mildly amusing movie.

In January 1856, fugitive slave Margaret Garner killed her infant daughter with a butcher knife rather than see her returned to bondage. Toni Morrison turned the story into the novel Beloved, and has now written an opera, Margaret Garner, which debuts Saturday. Detroit Public Radio's Celeste Headlee reports.

Scott Simon talks with Amanda Gotera, a senior in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She's a recipient of the Scholastic Publishing Company's Annual Writing Awards, and reads from some of her work.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Alex Gibney's award-winning documentary, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Gibney adapted a book that chronicles the fantastic rise and demise of the company that was engulfed in scandal when its outrageous accounting practices were exposed.

As the frontwoman for the fiercely independent Colombian rock band Aterciopilados, Andrea Echeverri has spent a decade as a Madonna-like agent of change, expanding the possibilities for women in Latin music. She now continues that work away from the band with her self-titled solo debut, which was inspired by the birth of her daughter Milagros. Tom Moon has a review.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Kingdom of Heaven. Gladiator director Ridley Scott's take on the Crusades features actor Orlando Bloom as a young blacksmith who saves the people of Jerusalem.