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weekend editionSaturday mornings are made for Weekend Edition Saturday, the program wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.
Drawing on his experience in covering 10 wars and stories in all 50 states and seven continents, Simon brings a humorous, sophisticated and often moving perspective to each show. He is as comfortable having a conversation with a major world leader as he is talking with a Hollywood celebrity or the guy next door.
Weekend Edition Saturday has a unique and entertaining roster of other regular contributors. Marin Alsop, conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, talks about music. Daniel Pinkwater, one of the biggest names in children's literature, talks about and reads stories with Simon. Financial journalist Joe Nocera follows the economy. Howard Bryant of EPSN.com and NPR's Tom Goldman chime in on sports. Keith Devlin, of Stanford University, unravels the mystery of math, and Will Grozier, a London cabbie, talks about good books that have just been released, and what well-read people leave in the back of his taxi. Simon contributes his own award-winning essays, which are sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant.
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Online home rental sites such as Airbnb might be good for travelers, but many cities complain that they drive up prices and take away housing for residents.

Read more: Airbnb Hikes Paris Rental Housing Market Prices

Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

Olympic swimming wraps up tonight in Rio. Fans are still recovering from last night. Katie Ledecky, 19 years old, of Bethesda, M-D, won another gold medal.

Read more: Katie Ledecky Smashes World Record In 800-Meter Freestyle; Michael Phelps Shares Silver

This summer marks my 25th and final season as music director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, Calif. What an amazing adventure this has been, working with living composers and being at the center of so many new creations.

Read more: A Parting Gift — With Legs — For Marin Alsop At The Cabrillo Festival

There was a time when people went to bars to talk to other people, maybe even meet someone new. But that was in the BC era — before cellphones.

"I've been in the pub industry for a long time, and progressively it's become less and less social and more and more antisocial," Steve Tyler, the owner of the Gin Tub in Sussex, England, tells NPR's Scott Simon.

Read more: At This English Bar, An Old-School Solution To Rude Cellphones

  1. Libertarian VP Pick Outlines Platform, To Draw Voters Away From Major-Party Nominees
  2. Obama Administration Looks To Ramp Up Syrian Strategy
  3. The App That Aims To Gamify Biology Has Amateurs Discovering New Species
  4. Wisdom From Young Adult Authors: Tamora Pierce
  5. Dentist Protagonists In Literature
  6. Kristen Bell On 'Bad Moms': 'It Was The Funniest Script I Had Ever Read'

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