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Scott Simon plays a montage of mostly hip-hop music that people listened to in south Los Angeles ten years ago.

This weekend, Luciano Pavarotti wraps up his stint at The Met in Puccini's Tosca. Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon talks with critic David Patrick Stearns about whether the great tenor will retire.

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.

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.

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.

Independent producer Joe Richman and All Things Considered begin a weekly series on jobs that are slowly disappearing. Today we meet Walter Backerman, one of the last seltzer delivery men who still make the rounds to New York City residents. Backerman's father was a seltzer man. So was his grandfather. And when he shows up at the doors of his customer's homes, to many, he represents a connection to a time gone by.

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.

Monica is normal in every way -- except she can't carry a tune to save her life. Canadian researchers says Monica's extreme case of amusia is helping them discover why people are tone deaf.

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.

Liza Minnelli first sang "New York, New York," but Frank Sinatra really made it a big hit. NPR's Jeff Lunden spreads the news about the Kander & Ebb tune as part of the Present at the Creation series about American cultural icons.