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After the more than 15 years together, the five-piece Canadian band Barenaked Ladies is having a first. They are releasing their latest album, Barenaked Ladies Are Me, on their own record label. Two members of the band, Steven Page and Kevin Hearn, elaborate.

Shakespeare was not only a poet and a playwright but a songwriter as well. The famous bard wrote songs for most of his comedies. But fortunately for the Barenaked Ladies, only the lyrics survived. Celeste Headlee of Detroit Public Radio reports.

In a new book called Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Lady, women published words of wisdom for Michelle Obama. The idea was to give the incoming first lady support, adulation and love for when she gets to the White House.

Ro Vaccaro is known as the butterfly lady in Pacific Grove, Calif., where 18,000 Monarch butterflies come to mate every year. The peak of their mating is always on the week of Valentine's Day. She tells independent producer Brett Myers the story of how she moved to this town on a whim, and underwent a similar caterpillar-to-butterfly-like metamorphosis after seeing the monarchs.

Few directors working in Hollywood hold as much industry sway as M. Night Shyamalan. From The Sixth Sense to The Village, his films have earned billions worldwide. Still, Shyamalan has a lot riding on his latest effort, Lady in the Water. Renee Montagne talks to Scott Foundas, film editor for LA Weekly about Shyamalan's career.

About 2,000 mourners gather at a church in the Texas Hill Country to remember Lady Bird Johnson. Earlier, a family spokeswoman says nearly 10,000 visitors streamed past the casket as it lay in repose at the LBJ Library and Museum in Austin, Texas.

A commentary by Elissa Ely about a patient in a psychiatric hospital who is devoted to her collection of newspaper.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy may not like some of his wife's lyrics. In one cut, Carla Bruni compares her lover to high-grade heroin. We hear what Parisians think of the new album.

Before there was The Full Monty, there were the Ladies of Rylstone. A few years ago, a group of middle-aged women in the tiny town of Rylstone, England, decided to try a new twist on an old fundraising opportunity. They were part of a charity organization called the Women's Institute, and one day they joked that it would be fun to do a calendar -- a girlie, pin-up calendar. In the nude. The result was $750,000 raised for leukemia research. Lisa talks with Tricia Stewart, Miss October, and Angela Baker, Miss February. In the new Ladies of Rylstone calendar, they're dressed in little more than a string of pearls.

Stranded in Southern California without a return ticket back to England, DJ Mary Anne Hobbs cooked up an impromptu tour and broadcast her BBC1 show, temporarily renamed the "Volcano Refugee Party," from Los Angeles. Here, Hobbs highlights five songs from L.A.'s "beat music" scene: It's a diverse smattering of music, unified only by computers, samplers and pulsing rhythms.

A cooking magazine's family-recipe contest brought in 3,000 entries. Public television cooking host Chris Kimball says many had catchy names like "Naked Ladies with Their Legs Crossed," along with equally memorable back-stories.

NPR's Neal Conan tells the story of Alison Bly, the so-called Dynamite Lady of minor league baseball. As part of his twice-monthly series Play-by-Play Conan watches Bly shoot across the sky as part of the ball park entertainment.