Weekend Edition Saturday

Singer Kathy Mattea remembers Nanci Griffith with NPR's Scott Simon. Griffith, a beloved singer-songwriter, died Aug. 13 at age 68.

40 years ago in the Soviet Union, a group of underground musicians opened a venue where they and their friends could perform. The Leiningrad Rock Club remains a legend of Russian counterculture.

Record-high temperatures and torrential rains are affecting people's long-needed summer getaways. As the climate warms, vacations may not be what they once were. People are figuring out how to adapt.

Rural health experts are calling on trusted agricultural leaders — like farmers and ranchers — to use their understanding of science and nudge vaccine-hesitant neighbors to roll up their sleeves.

We look at the latest in the case against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, where the infrastructure bill stands and why the current CDC eviction moratorium might not help vulnerable renters.

As part of Weekend Edition's Outbreak Voices series, Pastor Allen Jessee of Abingdon, Virginia shares how he's been trying to get help get his congregation and his community vaccinated.

Michele Kidd Sutton, president and CEO of the North Oaks Health System in Hammond, Louisiana, addresses the impact of the delta variant on her hospital as COVID-19 cases surge in the state and county.

Haitian band Lakou Mizik's new album is called Leave the Bones. Member Steeve Valcourt and musician Joseph Ray, who collaborated with the band, talk with NPR's Scott Simon about it.

The epic bipartisan infrastructure bill is slated for a proceedural vote in the Senate today. It's a gauge of how much support it actually has.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Charlie Cook about his time at the helm of the Cook Political Report and his assessment of the state of American politics after closely tracking it for so many decades.

Small businesses in California are criticising Gov. Newsom ahead of the recall election in Sept., saying that his COVID-19 restrictions shut them down. Now he's touting his own business-owner past.

As the Tokyo Olympics wind to a close, people in Japan are counting the financial, political and public health costs of holding the games.