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Vocalist and songwriter Rene Marie likes to re-invent tunes by Billie Holiday, Enya, and the Beatles. Sunday on Weekend All Things Considered, she takes one of her own tunes to her band for the first time. Part two of two.

Commentator Askia Muhammad addresses the recent arrest of Lynne Stewart, attorney for imprisoned Egyptian cleric Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. The Manhattan defense attorney and three others are accused of passing messages between third parties and Abdel-Rahman, in violation of prison conditions imposed on the sheik. Muhammad, a black Muslim, says the government's actions against Stewart only feed the paranoia of many Muslims in America.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem on Sec. of State Colin Powell's talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders today.

A series of questionable shootings and a corruption scandal are bringing Miami police criticism from the city's black and Cuban-American communities. Law enforcement officials face federal probes and new scrutiny by citizen panels. Phillip Davis reports.

Fossil hunters have found the earliest known common ancestor of a group of mammals that includes humans. About 125 million years ago, the chipmunk-like Eomaia scampered around bushes, eating insects and dodging dinosaurs. NPR's Richard Harris reports for All Things Considered.

Language expert Richard Lederer joins host Korva Coleman for the latest installment of Language Pet Peeves. This week, we lament the death of the adverb and the excessive use of apostrophes "at this point in time."

Pole-vaulter Kevin Dare, a Penn State sophomore, died while competing at a championship event earlier this year. Ed Dare discovered that his son's death was not an isolated event and is pushing for safety reforms in the sport. NPR's Tom Goldman has the story on All Things Considered.

Catholic worshippers across the country express their feelings about last week's meeting between American cardinals and Pope John Paul II. Some parishioners are satisfied with the Church's statements on sexually abusive priests -- while others feel more should be done. We hear voices from Washington, D.C., as well as reports from Missy Shelton from member station KSMU in Springfield, Missouri, and Bellamy Pailthorpe from member station KPLU in Seattle.

In a special five-part series for All Things Considered, NPR's Guy Raz travels the length of the fabled Danube River -- from its source in Germany to the Black Sea -- and reports on how the river both unites and divides each of the nations that touch its banks. Monday's report begins in Germany, where even the origin of the river itself is cause for dispute.

As part of his continuing series of stories on Seattle's Roosevelt High School, NPR's Robert Smith reports from Orlando, Fla. A team of students from Roosevelt High competed this weekend in the national high school robot competitions.

In 1924, a star-studded cruise on William Randolph Hearst's private yacht ended with a murder, and became a true Hollywood scandal. Now that scandal is the subject of a new film by Peter Bogdanovich. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review of the film, and Bogdanovich talks with All Things Considered guest host John Ydstie about Tinseltown history.

A decade after Los Angeles erupted in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, a four-part NPR series examines how the city has changed -- and how it hasn't. As the LAPD works to remove the tarnish from its image, L.A.'s minority communities are changing in ways that couldn't have been predicted in 1992.

Attorney General John Ashcroft took office amid controversy over his hard-line social conservatism. But events have conspired to give him unusual public exposure -- and popularity. NPR's Mara Liasson reports for All Things Considered. Also, in a Web-exclusive analysis, NPR Washington Editor Ron Elving puts Ashcroft's remarkable tenure into a historical context.

Vocalist and songwriter Rene Marie likes to re-invent tunes by Billie Holiday, Enya, and the Beatles. Sunday on Weekend All Things Considered, she took one of her own tunes to her band for the first time. Part one of two.

Julia Watson, a food columnist for iVillage.com, comments for All Things Considered on her love of anchovies — "the culinary equivalent of the Wonderbra" — and offers a recipe for her favorite anchovy dish. She says it can be enjoyed whether you like anchovies or not.

On Mother's Day weekend in 1977, NPR broadcast the first two hours of what would become one of the most popular weekend news and information shows in the nation -- Weekend All Things Considered. Listen to those first broadcasts and read about some of the important news that broke on "quiet" weekends in recent years.

In 1856, dozens of Mormon pioneers died on a desolate, snowbound pass in Wyoming during their exodus to Utah. Now the church wants to buy the land from the federal government, saying it's a sacred site. But critics say the proposed sale would set a bad precedent. NPR's Howard Berkes reports for Morning Edition. (Please note this segment was corrected on air on May 22, 2002: "In an early feed of our story on Martin's Cove, Wyoming, last week, we failed to give the full name of the church that wants to purchase the historic site. It is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.")

Some of the changes are subtle, but priests say life around their churches has changed amid the child sexual abuse scandal that has engulfed the U.S. Catholic church. On Morning Edition, NPR's Susan Stamberg interviews two pastors about their day-to-day experiences.

Texas native Sally Semrad always dreamed of being a musician. So several years ago, she packed up her red guitar and moved to Los Angeles to follow that dream. Her debut CD Left of Me is a fusion of Texas-style country and California roots-rock. Listen to tracks from the CD, and hear her conversation with All Things Considered guest host Liane Hansen. (8:00) The CD is on Stanley Recordings, available from http://cdbaby.com. More information about Sally Semrad is at http://stanleyrecordings.com.

Aboard the International Space Station this week are five astronauts and one "space flight participant" -- to use NASA's words. Mark Shuttleworth is the world's second space tourist. The 28-year-old South African Internet businessman is paying $20 million for the trip. Advocates of space tourism see Shuttleworth's voyage as the long-overdue dawning of a new era. For All Things Considered, David Kestenbaum reports.

Host Susan Stamberg talks with Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan about the Sundance Film Festival. The two discuss the highlights of this year's festival as well as the validity of complaints that the event has become too commercial.

At the center of the war-torn city of Kandahar, Afghanistan is a shrine said to hold a cloak once worn by the Prophet Mohammed himself. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on the symbolic power of Afghanistan's holiest Muslim site. worn by the Prophet Mohammed himself.

They turned the heads of American drivers for nearly four decades. In the latest segment of Present at the Creation, NPR explores the roots of the once-ubiquitous roadside Burma-Shave sign.

Robert Siegel visits once again with Jeremy Armstrong -- also known as inmate #342386 at the Green Bay Correctional Institution in Wisconsin. Robert first met Jeremy five years ago, before his trial. Jeremy was 15 years old when he was tried for murder. The judge sentenced him as an adult to 20 years in prison. Two years ago, Robert went back to Wisconsin to talk with Jeremy about prison life. Jeremy was then 18. Today, Robert talks with a 20-year-old Jeremy who's five months away from his first parole hearing. They talk about what's happened in prison and what he has learned over the past two years.

NPR's Howard Berkes zips down the icy Olympic bobsled track to experience the thrill of athletes competing in next month's winter games in Salt Lake City. Hear his story on All Things Considered.