David Beck (left) and Paul Cauthen  A week before their first CD was set for release in September, David Beck and Paul Cauthen got a taste of the big time: An attorney for alternative rocker Beck demanded the band change its name. So the duo scrapped Beck & Cauthen and called themselves Sons of Fathers—the title of their debut album. "It was a costly bump in the road for us, but you deal with it," said Mr. Cauthen, 25. Co-produced by Grammy-winner Lloyd Maines, the CD features the Austin, Texas, duo's tight, heartfelt vocal style reminiscent of the Eagles and Crosby, Stills & Nash. "We're keeping it pure, taking from our influences and putting our own twist on it," said Mr. Cauthen, who plays guitar. Mr. Beck, 23, is on upright bass.  Watch the trailer for new film "Urbanized," a documentary about the design of cities. Clip courtesy of Swiss Dots.  'The House of Silk,' Anthony Horowitz, Tuesday  "You know that I deplore guesswork," Sherlock Holmes tells Watson in the opening passages of "The House of Silk," a new Sherlock Holmes mystery by British novelist and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz. Mr. Horowitz, a Sherlock Holmes fan since his teens, says he hoped to preserve the flavor and tone of Arthur Conan Doyle's work, while imbuing the novel with a modern sensibility and pace. Set in Holmes's sooty, crime-infested 19th-century London, the novel follows Holmes and Watson, the narrator, as they investigate a shadowy ring of criminals who use a strip of white silk as their signature.  In 'Urbanized,' Mr. Hustwit takes on urban planning.  'Urbanized,' Friday, IFC Center in New York, selected screenings in other major cities  "Helvetica" director Gary Hustwit's 2007 documentary won critical acclaim among design enthusiasts for illuminating a big controversy over a tiny topic: fonts. Two years later, he followed up with another film centered on a similar, albeit slightly bigger, theme—industrial design—in "Objectified." In the third installment, "Urbanized," Mr. Hustwit takes on urban planning. Jumping from New York City to Mumbai to Bogotá, where former mayor Enrique Peñalosa built hundreds of miles of bike paths and pedestrian walkways, the film illustrates the dramatic ways in which the design of cities affects the lives of their inhabitants. For screenings, see www.urbanizedfilm.com/screenings/.
Plus, new documentary Urbanized from director of Helvetica; new Sherlock Holmes novel,"The House of Silk" by Anthony Horwitz.