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The Showtime cable series Dead Like Me, about the Grim Reapers who live among us to escort the newly dead to their reward, has returned for a second season on Sunday nights. NPR's Liane Hansen talks to the show's executive producer, John Masius, about the evolution of the series and future story lines.

Time magazine calls Gehry the world's most famous architect. Gehry just designed an outdoor music pavilion for Chicago's new Millennium Park, a former rail yard that's been transformed into a destination for the arts. He designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

Family Circle magazine makes a habit of publishing the signature cookie recipes of incumbent and aspiring first ladies. So far, the lady with the readers' favorite cookies has ended up in the White House. Two partisans, Republican Linda Tarplin and her Democrat husband Rich, compare Laura Bush's Oatmeal Chocolate Chunks with Teresa Heinz Kerry's Pumpkin Spices. NPR's Susan Stamberg officiates.

The ancient Romans used divination, augury and other mystic and religous practices to predict what the gods intended for their political and military pursuits. One key: sacred chickens. Hear Weekend Edition classics commentator Elaine Fantham and NPR's Scott Simon.

Critic-at-large John Powers reviews a new two-DVD version of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita.

For sculptor Kendall Buster, there is no distinction between art and science. Trained as a microbiologist, she explores the forms and landscapes seen in a microscope lens through her giant sculptures. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports.

The notion that beauty could inspire civic virtue informed the construction of the New York subway a century ago. Now a city program spreads beautiful mosaics, sculptures and other hidden treasures underground. NPR's Margot Adler reports.

TV critic David Bianculli reviews the new political mock documentary series, Tanner on Tanner. The four-part political satire was written by Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau and directed by Robert Altman. It airs Tuesdays in October on the Sundance Channel.

Music critic Will Hermes takes a listen to the new record from R.E.M., Around the Sun. The band has been making quieter, more introspective, records since drummer Bill Berry left the group in 1997.

A San Francisco man has created a universal remote control that offers only one function: the 'off' button. His keychain device, TV-B-Gone, is designed to extinguish televisions in public places. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and inventor Mitch Altman.