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Big oil, big buildings, big hair — the TV series Dallas made its glittering debut 30 years ago this month. Neither its namesake city nor TV has been the same since. Longtime Dallas TV critic Ed Bark discusses the show, the city and "Who Shot J.R.?"

Benson, 78, has spent the past five decades capturing famous faces from the Beatles to the Clintons. As he takes a stroll through a retrospective of his work, he shares the secret to making his subjects look natural.

With that bullwhip and fedora, he's not your typical archaeologist. Sometimes, in fact, Indy's more treasure hunter than scientist. In the real world of archeologists, Indy's adventure-addicted character doesn't quite match the facts.

In Jackie Chan's upcoming film, The Forbidden Kingdom, he collaborates for the first time with Jet Li, another martial arts superstar. Chan talks about the new movie, his martial arts training and how he learned his father was a spy.

The cannibal psychiatrist from The Silence of the Lambs is a murderous madman -- but he comes to be fond of FBI agent Clarice Starling. It's that evil-with-a-sweet-streak thing that's behind his appeal.

Fresh Air film critic David Edelstein reviews Standard Operating Procedure, a documentary from Errol Morris about the treatment of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib detention center in Iraq in 2003.

Author Charles Ardai is founder of Hard Case Crime, a publishing group that reprints classic crime fiction and publishes new pulp fiction in paperback editions. Ardai, who writes under the pen name Richard Aleas, has won the Edgar Award for mystery writing.

Artist Justin Gignac began putting garbage into boxes and selling them for as much as $100 to poke fun at the notion of value. A second project involves selling paintings of objects for the price of the item depicted. It's gotten him fancy dinners, video games and more.

From the 1940s until the 1980s, the radio and TV comedy duo of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding brought laughter to millions of Americans. Their subtle, slow-paced humor often spoofed the newsmen and talking heads that filled the media in which they worked.

The curators of the Whitney Biennial have helped set up a temporary radio station two doors down from the Whitney Museum's building in New York City. Neighborhood Public Radio producers and hosts see their station as a way to give everyday people access to the airwaves.