AP - James Braly's one-man show, "Life in a Marital Institution," seems on the surface to be about his marriage and his wife, Susan — although it's really all about him. Braly seems to know that, though, which makes his storytelling about the "tantric conflict" between him and Susan even funnier, as he often laughs along with the audience.

AP - Hollywood wisdom through the ages has always been that no technological innovation — the transition from silent film to sound, black-and-white to color, hand-drawn animation to digital images — could ever make a bad movie into a good one.

AP - The Baseball Project, "Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails" (Yep Roc)

AP - Little Jackie, "The Stoop" (S-Curve Records)

AP - Like "Definitely, Maybe" from earlier this year, the coming-of-age dramedy "The Wackness" asks us to dig deep within our nostalgia wells and reminisce about the mid-1990s.

AP - "Well Enough Alone: A Cultural History of My Hypochondria" (Riverhead Books. 256 pages. $23.95), by Jennifer Traig: In our current age of anxiety, medical-themed TV shows and WebMD, most of us — at one time or another — have inflated a pimple into cancer or a stomachache into appendicitis.

Reuters - Only one guy has mounted a full tour of outdoor stadiums during this economically shaky summer, and that lone figure, Kenny Chesney, brought his show to about 45,000 fans at Nashville's NFL stadium Saturday.

Reuters - He is a rock star, an exhibitionist and a vengeful god. He is Dionysus as played by stage and film star Alan Cumming in a vibrant production of Euripides' "The Bacchae," courtesy of the National Theatre of Scotland.

AP - Beck, "Modern Guilt" (Geffen)

AP - Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis, "Two Men with the Blues" (Blue Note)

AP - Jean Grae, "Jeanius" (Blacksmith Records/ Warner Bros.)

Reuters - Because his records so rarely sound like anyone's but his own, it's easy to forget how much Beck thrives on collaborating with name-brand producers like Nigel Godrich and the Dust Brothers.