Sep 23rd, 2004 · The acclaimed HBO series begins its third season. Simon is the show's creator and executive producer. Simon was a police reporter for The Baltimore Sun who moved to television and wrote for the show Homicide: Life on the Street. Pelecanos is a D.C.-based crime novelist who now writes for TV and film. Esquire magazine calls him "the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world."
Sep 7th, 2004 · Just off Highway 202 in Flemington, N.J., sits an unimpressive warehouse that holds a most impressive life's work -- that of a husband and wife team, creators of the world's largest model railroad. In the center of it all, Bruce Zaccagnino plays a massive pipe organ, providing the soundtrack to this universe in miniature. Hear his story in a Sound Portraits report.
Aug 28th, 2004 · Abandoned imaginary friends now have a place to call home. Craig McCracken, whose Powerpuff Girls took the nation by storm in the 1990s, has a new Cartoon Network series: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Hear McCracken and NPR's Jennifer Ludden.
Aug 4th, 2004 · Alex Cohen profiles designer Paul Frank, who gained fame as the creator of a well-known sock monkey named Julius. Critics are debating whether Julius is a commercial product or a work of art.
Jul 30th, 2004 · If you've turned on a television recently, chances are you may have come across a new trend -- televised poker. Steve Lipscomb is the creator and CEO of The World Poker Tour, the highest-rated program on the Travel Channel.
May 19th, 1997 · Scott Adams, creator of the popular Dilbert comic strip talks about his book, The Dilbert Future. The forward-thinking tome offers a graphic vision of the future in which newly-developed gadgets help workers goof off and still get paid.