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The dog days of summer have traditionally been a movie wasteland, a time when Hollywood tends to release relatively few pictures. Not so this year; August is no longer a movie graveyard, but a month with plenty of competition at the multiplex.

Jenny Lewis has the clear voice and honest melodicism of a guitar-strumming angel. But she is so good to look at and so forthright about her sexuality that some of Rilo Kiley's serious-minded natural audience suspect she is a pop starlet on the make, like Rihanna or the pitiable Britney Spears.

After two days of hearings on Iraq, Democratic congressional leaders say they are not satisfied with the planned drawdown of 30,000 troops envisioned by Gen. David Petraeus. They pledge a push for legislation to change course in Iraq.

The days of mystery meat are nearly over. At some college cafeterias around the country, menus feature sushi, wood-fired pizzas and gourmet specials — all in response to the picky palates of college students.

Melissa Block reads listener responses to yesterday's show, including comments about our coverage of the Florida and Michigan primaries, the prostitute linked to Eliot Spitzer, and an astrophysicist who has come up with a method for efficiently boarding an airplane.

Listeners comment on Friday's debate over the prospect of boycotting the summer's Olympic games in China. One teacher tuned in from Beijing.

Burrowed into the side of a mountain, on a Norwegian island deep in the Arctic, is the Global Seed Vault, a small building where vital seed varieties are kept in a deep freeze year round.

In the West Bank city of Nablus, the Israeli army has closed charities, a shopping mall and other institutions its says are linked to Hamas. The Palestinian Authority says the Israeli moves undermine efforts to maintain order.

Canadian officials have withdrawn information from a terrorism case it says the U.S. obtained after waterboarding a suspect. Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reports that a Canadian minister said his country "does not knowingly use information which has been obtained through torture."

Artists and athletes, celebrities and scribes, the talented and the tainted promiscuously link arms and promenade in this exuberant collection of portraits from the Vanity Fair archives.