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Comic book artist Brad Neely thought it would be funny to create his own soundtrack for the film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. But Joel Rose of member station WHYY says the film's distributor, Warner Brothers, was not amused.

General Motors pulls its ads in the Los Angeles Times after the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize-winning auto critic, Dan Neil, called for the resignation of GM's chief executive in a column this week. Neil and other industry analysts say the company is falling dangerously behind its foreign competitors, especially in developing hybrid cars. Paul Eisenstein, publisher of TheCarConnection.com, an Internet magazine, discusses the controversy.

The largest funeral in modern history takes place in Rome on a windy, cool morning. The funeral for Pope John Paul II begins nine days of mourning for one of the Catholic Church's longest-serving pontiffs. The homily was delivered by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, one of the pope's closest friends and advisers.

At the New World Symphony in Miami, the challenge for young classical musicians finishing a three-year program is to find a new job in their profession. Ari Shapiro has watched the progress of symphony members over the past year. In the last of a three-part series, he reports on the challenges of transition.

As testimony to the inexplicable, irresistible power of love, commentator Geoffrey Grosshans offers the following romantic fable from the natural kingdom.

Grocery shelves are sagging with every kind of beer imaginable, in taste and appearance. With the help of beer expert Michael Jackson, Michele Norris and Robert Siegel take stock — and taste — of some of the world's finest (and most expensive) beers.

This past week, the President's Council on Bioethics released a report looking at ways to avoid the ethical minefields that stem cell research presents -- and still allow research to go forward. NPR's Joe Palca discusses the report's conclusions.

High school junior Lauryn Silverman of Youth Radio shares her struggle to recover from the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, an illness that affects one out of every 100 high school and college-age females in the United States.

Two scientists from the University of Missouri St. Louis are making the case to save endangered parasites. The scientists say lice and their comrades can reveal much about their host species but are rapidly going extinct. But don't expect lawmakers to make additions to the Endangered Species List anytime soon.

About 1,000 people have been evacuated from a town in Southern California after a landslide Wednesday. Multimillion-dollar houses in Laguna Beach were destroyed as residents escaped. Meanwhile, construction continues on new and glamorous homes in the area. Member station KPCC's Rob Schmitz reports.