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NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg talks with Adam Gopnik, former Paris correspondent for The New Yorker magazine, about what makes Paris great. This is the first of a series on cities, broadcast this month on Tuesdays on Morning Edition.

Jeff Brady of member station KOPB in Portland, Oregon reports on a call for the resignation of the city's police chief. Critics point to statements made by the chief against homosexuals, for corporal punishment and critical of the nation's judicial system.

Robert and Linda review what public opinion polls are showing about how Americans view the ongoing court battle over the presidential election, and we hear what some Americans are saying in cities around the country.

NPR's Madeline Brand reports on how indecision in the presidential election has brought elephants, donkeys... and a mule to the Washington D.C. scene. The controversy over the election is bringing what some see as a surreal cast over the city.

When New York teams last played in the World Series, in 1956, the games would spark impromptu gatherings around the city. Such spontaneity isn't as common today, but it still exists, as NPR's Tom Goldman found out on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Brian Wright at member station WUKY reports urban sprawl is invading the farmland of Lexington, Kentucky and the local government is not happy. In order to keep Kentucky's bluegrass, the city is offering to pay residents to keep them from developing.

How are our hearts and minds affected by the buildings that surround us? As a part of NPR's series on American society and architecture, Alex Van Oss visits everything from skyscrapers in New York City to old colonial homes in Virginia, to see how these places make us feel.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Venus Beauty Institute. The award-winning French film about love in a Parisian hair salon is now opening in some U.S. cities.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the long-running battle in Berlin over whether a city of 3.5 million people can afford three government-funded opera houses.

Jerome Socolovsky reports on efforts in Madrid to reduce the city's noise pollution. A cultural habit of loud public behavior has made the going tough. But some progress is happening, by educating habitual noisemakers in an unusual way.