EVENT: Earlier this year Holly Hunter encountered an interesting situation with an interviewer for a news station (we highly recommend watching the YouTube video of this). She discussed her tv series Saving Grace at the time, and she'll be doing the same tonight at the Paley Center (old Museum of TV and Radio). There will be a Q&A as well as a screening of one of the episodes. 6pm // The Paley Center for Media......

ART: The Year of the Dog is being celebrated in many ways, even through cute paintings of puppies, er, art. Elizabeth Berdann's witty, ultra-realistic oil-on-copper paintings of dogs are now on view. We think they're cuteoverload.com! Now through March 23rd // Tuesday through Thursday, Saturday 10am to 2pm // Lesley Heller [30 East 92nd Street, 3rd Floor] COMEDY PANEL: We can't imagine that disecting comedy is really all that funny, since laughing is somewhat a......

Does the exodus of the RNC leave you feeling abandoned and used? Did the week's speeches leave you feeling frustrated and angry? Was it all just too... heavy? You can nurse your political hangover at State of the Union, an evening of left-leaning comedy, presented by Mother Jones. Todd Barry, Will Durst, Janeane Garofalo, Eugene Mirman, Ward Sutton and Lizz Winstead - unafraid to be called the "L" word - present their state-swinging rebuttals......

Today at noon, Air America, the liberal radio network, will go on the air, with Al Franken's daily show, "The O'Franken Factor." The Times looks at how the ambitions to bring a liberal voice to radio have outpaced the realities (Air America hasn't bought any stations yet - it's just bought time on five stations) as well as how the network's personalities have to remain enterataining as it competes with conservative voices Rush "Oxy-Contin" Limbaugh......