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NPR music critic Tom Manoff has chosen four CDs that he's listening to over the Christmas holidays -- all vocal performances. Listen to a track from each of Manoff's selections.

The nation's major airlines have announced tens of thousands of layoffs since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But the way and the speed with which airlines are letting their employees go varies dramatically. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.

Noah Adams talks to Alexander Rower, grandson of Alexander Calder and director of the Calder Foundation in New York, about a sculpture known as the Bent Propeller. It was on the plaza in front of 7 World Trade Center.

Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman takes a look at the history of the blues. Wyman remembers the music and artists that influenced the Stones and other rock 'n' roll bands. (8:51

Maurice Sendak, best known as the author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are, also created the sets for a 1983 production of the holiday ballet The Nutcracker. He joined Bob Edwards to talk about his collaboration with the Pacific Northwest Ballet. The original E.T.A. Hoffmann story, with Sendak's illustrations, has been reissued.

Weekend Edition Sunday's music director Ned Wharton offers his suggestions for holiday gift CDs.

In a look at the literary offerings of the year, NPR's book reviewer, Alan Cheuse, offers All Things Considered the wish list he'd draw up for the holidays.

Radio Diaries and All Things Considered continue a multi-part radio tribute to jobs that are slowly disappearing, celebrating people who keep alive an older way of life. This week, a profile of the last of a lonely breed -- Frank Schubert, the only civilian lighthouse keeper in America.

Bob Edwards talks with NPR's "Doyenne of Dirt," Ketzel Levine, about the Westminster Dog Show running today and tomorrow in New York City.

Actor Mark Webber, 21, is currently starring in the new Todd Solondz movie, Storytelling. He got rave reviews for his performance in the London and New York stage productions of David Mamet's American Buffalo opposite William H. Macy and Phillip Baker Hall. He also appeared in Snow Day with Chevy Chase and The Animal Factory directed by Steve Buscemi. Weber grew up in Philadelphia where he was sometimes homeless with his mother Cheri Honkala. She is a homeless rights activist and founder of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union. In March Webber can be seen in HBO's Laramie Project. In upcoming films he plays Woody Allen's son in Hollywood Endings, and Al Pacino's assistant in People I Know.