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Weekend All Things Considered begins a new monthly feature. It's called Along For The Ride. Each month, we invite a creative person to act as a guest reporter and share with us a special point of interest to him or her. Today, writer Amy Wilensky, takes us to the cheese department at Fairway, a New York City grocery, where cheese guru Steven Jenkins has a passion, if not an obsession for cheese!

Writer Paul Auster reads a true story submitted by Edith S. Marks. Today's installment is called New York Stray.

Lisa talks with Senior Editor Locke Peterseim of Britannica.com, the Web site for the Encyclopedia Britannica. Peterseim writes the Annotated Dennis Miller, which tries to explain all of the strange and curious observations of the comedian's commentaries during ABC-TV's Monday Night Football broadcasts.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about President Bush's recent efforts at bipartisanship and the outlook for the president's legislation on tax and social policy.

Steve Tripoli of member station WBUR in Boston reports on Roman Totenberg, the 90-year-old concert violinist whose decades in music are now bridging the gap between two very diverse musical periods. A concert tonight in Boston will honor Totenberg on his birthday. (Roman Totenberg is the father of NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg).

A preliminary survey of Oklahoma’s higher education institutions shows that college enrollment has fallen roughly two percent in fall 2021, when compared to fall 2020.

A Senate banking committee claims U.S. banks are giving the green light to money laundering by failing toclosely monitor their relationships with overseas financial institutions. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Paul Light of the Brookings Institution about his new report on the greatest achievements of the federal government in the past 50 years.

NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg visits the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore to see paintings by 19th century French artist Edouard Manet. The curator of the museum says the painter, who was an influential figure to the young Impressionists, can be best expressed by a painting of asparagus.

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports that the nation's largest cranberry-growing cooperative of farmers is on tenuous financial ground. It wants growers to be required to reduce cranberry production.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on President Bush's appearance at the Democratic legislative retreat in Pennsylvania yesterday. Mr. Bush continued his attempt to charm the opposition. Though some members seemed charmed, he faced tough questions from Democrats, many of whom remain skeptical of finding common legislative ground with the new president.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that the Justice Department has given a federal prosecutor in New York jurisdiction to investigate all of then-President Clinton's last-minute pardons. Attorney General John Ashcroft has given U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White authority to look into any claims that cash or other benefits were exchanged for pardons.