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Mayor Joseph Riley of Charleston, S.C., has a vision of city executives as urban planners, and not just political leaders. All Things Considered host Robert Siegel profiles Riley and the Mayors' Institute on City Design. It's a nationwide forum on how to transform blighted areas and make cities more livable.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Apparao Vanguri from Cockeysville, Maryland. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WYPR in Baltimore.)

A Midwest railroad plans the largest U.S. railroad expansion project in more than a century. But ranchers, Native Americans and environmentalists are trying to stop the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad proposal dead in its tracks. NPR's Cheryl Corley has the story Sunday on Weekend All Things Considered.

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.

In the third part of his series for Weekend Edition Sunday on the "pavement dwellers" of Mumbai, India, Julian Crandall-Hollick makes the rounds with Dinesh, a 22-year-old, self-taught doctor who treats runaway children arriving by train at Dadar Station.

The Pentagon says environmental laws cripple its ability to train soldiers. But in North Carolina, the Army and environmentalists have come up with a novel solution that benefits both soldiers and woodpeckers. For Morning Edition, NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.

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.

It's lavender-bluish in color, and given just the right amount of shade, it will climb six to ten feet high. Meet 'Frankie', the latest addition to Ketzel Levine's garden, and listen as Ketzel shows host Scott Simon how to plant clematis vines.

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.

A man lays plans to build the world's largest ocean-going vessel. Weekend Edition Saturday's Scott Simon talks to Norman Nixon, who plans to create a ship that's one mile long and 25 stories high. (4:30)