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Thousands of delegates and journalists pulled out of Philadelphia today, ending a week-long siege that accompanied the Republican National Convention. They leave with a different impression of the place, which calls itself the city that loves you back. It seems the city also wants the burden and bounty of the national convention back -- the sooner the better. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.

Co-host Madeleine Brand talks with Leslie Stainton, author of a new biography of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Lorca was killed in 1936 by a fascist firing squad. Lorca spent almost a year in New York City and his dark and sometimes surrealistic poetry about the city is still considered timely by many.

of Texas City, Texas, who is heading up an effort to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the worst industrial accident in the nation's history. 557 people were killed by a fertilizer explosion on a cargo ship...the accident still reverberates in the lives of people in Texas City.

The Democratic National Convention has attracted only a smattering of protests and most of these have been held in small ``official'' protest areas, for which groups had to apply for a city permit. It's a far cry from the thousands of angry protesters, whose confrontations with police in Chicago twenty-eight years ago marked the last Democratic convention in the city. NPR's Scott Simon reports.

Eric Weiner reports from the West Bank city of Hebron that as Palestinian and Israeli negotiators hammer out the final technical details for the long-waited Israeli withdrawal from the city, the mood of both Palestinian and Israeli residents of the town remains glum and full of apprehension about what might happen next.

NPR's Edward Lifson reports from Belgrade where the government of President Slobodan Milosevic has made a major concession to the Opposition. Tonight, on television, the Justice Ministry acknowledged that the Opposition had won local elections last November in Nis (NEESH), Serbia's second largest city. It was the annulment of the election victory in Nis and other cities that prompted daily protests for the past 50 days.

NPR's Cheryl Devall reports from St. Petersburg, Florida - the site of two riots this fall. The city's racial divisions are deep and long-lived. Citizens in the city's black community fear the police; white residents say they don't understand the black community's frustrations.

Authors promoting their books often travel from city to city stopping for interviews at as many broadcast outlets as possible. For chefs with new cookbooks this means more than being able to talk about their work, it means being able to demonstrate it on camera. Media guru Lisa Ekus runs a T.V. kitchen training ground for chefs ready for the big time.

NPR's Margot Adler reports on what some are decrying as the "suburbanization" of New York City. She talks to one design critic who laments that national franchises are replacing the city's local greasy spoons, coffeehouses and boutiques, and taking over street-life. (6:40

Travis Hugh Cully's new book is called The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power. It's about his days as a bike messenger in Chicago -- the pressure, pain and sometimes loss of pedaling through a major American city. Noah Adams talks with Culley about maneuvering through the city and the battle between bikes and cars.