Albuquerque celebrates the delicious prickly pear in annual festival The dangerously monikered cactus is a source of joy in the Southwest. Albuquerque celebrates with music and yummy opuntia treats. Alice Fordham
Celebrating Jimmy Carter's lifelong love of music The Carter Center organized a benefit concert in Atlanta this month to celebrate Carter's 100th birthday.
Ina Garten shares her secret for a great dinner party: 6 people and round table "I like when everybody's knees are almost touching and it feels very intimate," the Barefoot Contessa host says. Garten's new memoir is Be Ready When the Luck Happens. Tonya Mosley
'Fledgling' is Octavia Butler's unfinished but fundamental legacy This is the KUOW Book Club, and we’re wrapping up "Fledgling" by Octavia Butler. Katie Campbell
Kris Kristofferson, musical rebel and movie star, has died at age 88 Musician and film star Kris Kristofferson has died at age 88. His hit songs include "Me and Bobby McGee" and he starred in dozens of films, including A Star Is Born, opposite Barbra Streisand. Melissa Block
Sunday Puzzle: drugstore scramble NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Northwest Public Broadcasting listener Midge Komenda of Lacey, Washington. Will Shortz
‘SNL’ has always taken on politics. Here’s what works – and why As a historic election looms, Saturday Night Live faces an ongoing challenge to make America laugh – and process an increasingly strange political world. Jean Smart hosts the show’s 50th season premiere on Saturday. Eric Deggans
‘The movie tells you how to make it’: After decades, Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ is here “Every movie I make involves passion,” writer and director Francis Ford Coppola says. “The Godfather is very classical. Apocalypse Now is very wild.” His latest, Megalopolis, is a Roman epic – set in New Rome, a futuristic New York City. Mandalit del Barco
How a grant is helping restore the first Black country club Shady Rest Country Club in Scotch Plains, New Jersey was the first Black country club in the U.S. Big names teed off during the day, and at night, entertainers like Ella Fitzgerald performed.
Celebrating 25 years of 'The West Wing' The critically acclaimed drama went behind the scenes at a fictional White House. We listen to archival interviews with show creator/writer Aaron Sorkin and actors Allison Janney and John Spencer. Terry Gross