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On his third album, Up Front & Down Low, singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson covers classic country songs including "She Thinks I Still Care," "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers," and "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone."

Veteran actor rules the screen this summer, appearing in five features between June and August. Among his roles: a mystic in The Love Guru, a corrupt C.I.A. mastermind in War, Inc., and a stoned shrink in The Wackness.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews some box sets you might want to consider (or not) for holiday gifts: The Complete Miles Davis Live at Montreux 1973-1991 (Warner Bros); The Classic Blue Note Recordings of Wayne Shorter; The Classic Columbia and Okeh Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang Sessions (Mosaic); Billy Eckstine: The Legendary Big Band (Savoy); The Definitive Sarah Vaughan (Verve/Blue Note).

Book critic Maureen Corrigan lists her Best Books of 2002: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold; The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer; Atonement by Ian McEwan; Bad Blood by Lorna Sage; In the Devil's Snare by Mary Beth Norton; Teacher by Mark Edmundson; The Good Women of China by Xinran; Don't Tell Mama! edited by Regina Barreca; and I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson.

The RZA is one of the founding members of the kung-fu-meets-hip-hop group the Wu Tang Clan. He has also written film scores, including 'Kill Bill' and 'Ghost Dog'. Now he has turned his efforts to a new book, 'The Wu Tang Manual'.

The new biopic Kinsey takes on the story of scientist Alfred Kinsey, who pioneered research in human sexuality in the 1940s and 1950s. For the project, director Bill Condon -- who also wrote the script -- interviewed many of the scientist's colleagues.

The book "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen" has become a reference tool for many cooks. Now author Harold McGee has revised and updated the book. It's an exposition of food and cooking techniques, delving into technology and history.

Slate film critic David Edelstein tells us his top movies of 2004, and recommends current holiday releases. Edelstein says that in 2004, some high-profile winners -- and losers -- hit the nation's big screens.

Bill "Spaceman" Lee's new memoir is Have Glove, Will Travel: The Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond. The book picks up where Lee's previous memoir, The Wrong Stuff, left off in 1984.

Gareth Cook covers science for The Boston Globe. Last week, he won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism for his yearlong series of stories on stem-cell research. The judges praised Cook's work for explaining "the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem cell research."