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Amy Cordaro caters to women undergoing chemotherapy: she sells and styles wigs for them at her shop Amy of Denmark, in Silver Spring, Maryland. Cancer patients tell host Lisa Simeone they feel well-tended and soothed under Amy's guidance.

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. premiere of Puccini's Tosca . Despite a mediocre reception and a poor review of the first performance at the Metropolitan Opera, Toscaendures as one of the most revered operas in history. Lisa discovers why it's also one of the most disaster-prone.

NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg visits the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore to see paintings by 19th century French artist Edouard Manet. The curator of the museum says the painter, who was an influential figure to the young Impressionists, can be best expressed by a painting of asparagus.

Weekend All Things Considered begins a new monthly feature. It's called Along For The Ride. Each month, we invite a creative person to act as a guest reporter and share with us a special point of interest to him or her. Today, writer Amy Wilensky, takes us to the cheese department at Fairway, a New York City grocery, where cheese guru Steven Jenkins has a passion, if not an obsession for cheese!

Many consumers in California have trouble believing the state's electrical power shortage is real. But some analysts say there were indications throughout the past decade that California would soon be facing an energy crisis. Cheryl Colopy of member station KQED reports.

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports that the nation's largest cranberry-growing cooperative of farmers is on tenuous financial ground. It wants growers to be required to reduce cranberry production.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about President Bush's recent efforts at bipartisanship and the outlook for the president's legislation on tax and social policy.

NPR's Melissa Block reports that four men go on trial today in New York for bombing the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. The men are suspected to be tied to a radical terrorist organization led by Osama Bin Laden.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Paul Light of the Brookings Institution about his new report on the greatest achievements of the federal government in the past 50 years.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on President Bush's appearance at the Democratic legislative retreat in Pennsylvania yesterday. Mr. Bush continued his attempt to charm the opposition. Though some members seemed charmed, he faced tough questions from Democrats, many of whom remain skeptical of finding common legislative ground with the new president.