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For more than 20 years, Washington, D.C., has been home to a unique musical genre known as Go-Go. Defined by its Latin-tinged drums and audience participation, Go-Go has yet to find much airplay outside of the nation's capital. Host Madeleine Brand talks with the man known as the Godfather of Go-Go, Chuck Brown, about the genre and his new CD, Your Game...Live at the 9:30 Club. (7:01-7:46) {Chuck Brown: Your Game...Live at the 9:30 Club, Liaisons Records: 2001}

This week, we take a look at the city of Buffalo, New York, both past and present. The tour begins with the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, which heralded Buffalo as the city of the future, a place where hydropower made the widespread use of electricity possible. Mark Goldman, author of City on the Lake: The Challenge of Change in Buffalo, New York, serves as Liane Hansen's tour guide of present-day Buffalo. Their first view of the city is from Canada, where Goldman says you can see Buffalo's long history layed out before you. Next, they venture down Main Street, where we meet singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, who has based her company, Righteous Babe Records, in her hometown of Buffalo.

Two-time U-S National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion Don Ross performs in NPR's Studio 4A, and speaks with Liane about his new cd, Huron Street (Narada Records).

Journalist David Brock, who attacked the credibility of law professor Anita Hill, now says he printed lies about Hill following her testimony against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Nina Totenberg talks to Brock about the confession, detailed in a forthcoming book.

The Blind Boys of Alabama have been singing gospel for more than 60 years. But with their new CD, the group puts a reverent spin on some blues standards. NPR's David D'Arcy reports that the Blind Boys can turn just about any song into a gospel song — as long as the words are sacred.

NPR's Ivan Watson reports that Sierra Leone's civil war seems to be ending and rebel commanders are turning over hundreds of child soldiers to the United Nations. The UN estimates that some 5,000 child soldiers saw combat during the 10-year civil war.

Scott talks with T Bone Burnett, soundtrack producer for the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? This week Mr. Burnett released a new CD called Down From The Mountain on Lost Highway Records (www.losthighway.com). It's a collection of songs from the O Brother sound track recorded last year at the Ryman Auditorium in Nasvhille.

As NPR Cultural Correspondent Rick Karr reports in a two-part series, smaller Internet media companies increasingly are being subsumed or edged out by media conglomerates.

Scott talks with Sister Dianna Ortiz, a Roman Catholic nun who was tortured in Guatemala in 1989. She is the founder of Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition.

A new generation of Baltimore residents is hoping to revive a hallowed Charm City tradition -- weekly scrubbing of the city's ubiquitious marble front steps. NPR's Neal Conan applies a little Bon Ami powder and a lot of elbow grease of his own.