AP - In Spike Lee's long and eclectic career, "Miracle at St. Anna" is easily his most technically ambitious film.

AP - "Downtown Owl" (Scribner. $24. 271 pages), by Chuck Klosterman: The best thing about "Downtown Owl," Chuck Klosterman's first stab at fiction, is this: Every key character sounds suspiciously like Chuck Klosterman.

AP - Who knew that in ancient Rome, the gladiators were really b-boys?

AP - Opening night at the Metropolitan Opera: The costumes! The singing! The costumes. The costumes.

AP - Soldiers might be clamoring to re-enlist if they all saw as much action in their homecoming as the threesome in "The Lucky Ones." Returning to combat could seem like a picnic in comparison with the tumult these three endure once back on U.S. soil.

AP - Plain White T's, "Big Bad World" (Hollywood)

AP - Buckcherry, "Black Butterfly" (Atlantic)

Reuters - With a huge sense of irony, Beck kicked off his triumphant homecoming show Saturday at the Hollywood Bowl with his 1993 slacker anthem "Loser." A decade and half after gaining notice with that breakthrough hit, he has the clout to handpick openers Spoon and MGMT and to share the stage with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra Strings, conducted by his father, David Campbell.