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More things happen in one day in New Orleans at Mardi Gras than happen all year in a typical Ohio town. Commentator Andrei Codrescu hires an actual person from Ohio to chronicle all the things that happen in the French Quarter.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews Teresa Sterne: A Portrait (Nonesuch) a tribute album to Teresa Sterne, a musical prodigy who took over Nonesuch Records in the early 60s and turned it into the respected label it is today. Sterne died last December of Lou Gehrigs disease.

People sampled from Houston and Kansas City offer comments about President Bush's budget address last night.

NPR's Barbara Bradley cruises Washington, D.C., sites linked with espionage on a bus tour run by former spies and spy catchers.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr doesn't see much hope for bipartisanship in negotiations over the Bush budget.

MAD magazine ends its policy of not accepting advertising. It's a shock to commentator Bill Harley, who grew up learning about phoniness and crass commercialization. MAD was beholden to no one. Not any more. A very sad revelation.

Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's Don Gonyea, who is traveling with the president today, one day after Mr. Bush gave his budget address to a joint session of Congress. The president got good reviews on his oratory, but Democrats claim that the plan favors the rich. Mr. Bush, in visits around the country to sell his plan, insisted that the Democrats were playing "class warfare," and that the current state of the economy warrants his $1.6 trillion tax cut.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews several new books about food, the new Modern Librarys Food series which collects four books about food, and Comfort Me with Apples (Random House) by Ruth Reichl and The Kitchen Congregation (Picador) by Nora Seton.

NPR's David Welna reports on the battle lines being drawn in Congress in the aftermath of President Bush's budget proposal that was sent to Capitol Hill this morning. Reaction to the president's speech last night predictably fell along partisan lines, and today's skirmishing over the details was not much different.

NPR's Guy Raz reports that one of the casualties of German reunification was the Dynamo soccer team in the city of Dresden.