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Abandoned imaginary friends now have a place to call home. Craig McCracken, whose Powerpuff Girls took the nation by storm in the 1990s, has a new Cartoon Network series: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Hear McCracken and NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

There's a lot of speechifying going on these days, with President Bush and Sen. John Kerry traveling around making their stump speeches. Has it always been this way? NPR's Scott Simon asks Weekend Edition classics commentator Elaine Fantham what oratory was like in the days before teleprompters.

Independent producer Jon Kalish has this report on the New York City imagined by author Nicholas Rinaldi in his new novel Between Two Rivers. Rinaldi's story revolves around the residents of a fictitious condo building in lower Manhattan.

Slate contributor Ben Williams presents a round-up of what movie critics are saying about this weekend's major new film premieres, including The Princess Diaries 2, We Don't Live Here Anymore and Alien vs. Predator.

Armed robbers have grabbed one of the world's most famous paintings. The heist of "The Scream" is the latest in what Interpol calls the fourth largest criminal activity -- art theft. Join NPR's Neal Conan for an update on the missing painting and a look inside a multibillion-dollar field of crime.

Jacobellis, a five-time Olympian, won her first gold medal during the women's snowboard cross event on Wednesday. She is also the oldest American woman to win a Winter Olympics gold medal.

Day to Day television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews Joey, the new Friends spin-off that premieres on NBC Thursday night starring former "Friend" Matt LeBlanc.

Slate contributor Ben Williams sums up what critics are saying about this weekend's major new film premieres. This week: Vanity Fair, starring Reese Witherspoon, and the mystery thriller Wicker Park.

We discuss the plans for rebuilding at ground zero in Lower Manhattan, and the debates surrounding those plans. Goldberger says idealism met cynicism at ground zero, and so far they have battled to a draw. His new book is Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York.

Hero, China's biggest-ever box-office movie, opens in U.S. theaters Friday. The film, which stars Jet Li as a master swordsman, alternates gravity-defying swordplay with Chinese history. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.