Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker.

All right, here's a joke. What's the difference between a folk singer and a pepperoni pizza?

A pepperoni pizza can feed a family of five.

I'm Rico Goliano.

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum and from APM American Public Media.

This is The Dinner Party, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations.

You just got a joke from the folk singer, Surprise, named Todd Snyder.

That'll help break the ice. Todd's latest album is called Time as we know it.

Later, we'll speak with acclaimed filmmaker Richard Linklater, director and co-writer of the new movie starring Jack Black, Bernie.

Also coming up, Rich Summer, aka Harry Crane from Mad Men, teaches us about board games, and political satirist Christopher Buckley is here with etiquette tips.

For the diplomats among you.

But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk.

Post haste.

All week long, you've been hearing these headlines.

Facebook goes public.

Music icon Donna Semmer is being remembered today as a groundbreaking artist. In a milestone

now in American history for the first time babies born to minority parents are now the majority.

Now for something you might not have heard. We're speaking with Sadie Stein. She is deputy editor of

the Paris Review. Sadie, what story are you going to be talking about at your parties this weekend?

Well, I thought we would probably be talking about the passing of the late Mike McGrady.

Mike McGrady.

Yes, whom you may know is the perpetrator of a 1960s sexy literary hoax.

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