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Singer and musician David Johansen was the lead singer for the 70s pre-punk punk rock band New York Dolls. Later he performed as Buster Poindexter, a pompadour tuxedo wearing lounge lizard swing bandleader of the band Banshees in Blue. Now he has a new roots-music band and a new album of straight blues, David Johansen and the Harry Smiths. (Chesky Re

Amy Tardif, of member station WGCU, reports that an airport in Naples, Florida, has banned certain types of jets because of noise complaints. Though the move is supported by many residents in the area, the ban has angered a number of aviation groups, including the Federal Aviation Administration.

On Friday, workers at the Duro plant just across border inside Mexico voted overwhelmingly not to join an independent union. The outcome is seen as further evidence of Mexico's harsh treatment of independent labor organizers. The election was preceded by intimidation by the company and the state-controlled union, which is considered very corrupt. President Vicente Fox has indicated he wants independents to be protected, but the vote doesn't reflect any change in Mexico. NPR's John Burnett reports.

Marc Pachter, director of the National Portrait Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., describes the process the museum went through to find a donor willing to contribute $20 million toward the purchase of the famous Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington -- on loan since 1968.

Jazz composer and arranger Bob Belden has written a musical suite based on the 1947 "Black Dahlia" case, involving the murder of a young actress. His influences include novelist James Ellroy and composers Alban Berg and Jerry Goldsmith. Belden is also known for producing Grammy-winning reissues of classic albums by Miles Davis.

Sarah Chayes reports from Paris on the corruption trial involving French oil giant Elf Aquitaine. The company's CEO, a French foreign minister and others have been accused of exchaning millions of dollars in bribes in the early 1990's.

Liane reads letters from listeners. (2:45).

Weekend Edition's resident satirists at the Montana Logging and Ballet Company have some "common sense solutions" for the problems the President has experienced in competing for the nation's attention.

A consortium of AIDS drug makers is suing the South African government, trying to block a law they say will erode their patent rights...and their profits. The law would allow the government to import generic drugs or authorize their manufacture, if needed drugs are priced too high. AIDS activists want the government to implement the law, so that the estimated four million infected with H-I-V will have access to life-sustaining drugs. NPR's Brenda Wilson reports from Johannesburg.

Lisa Simeone talks with three newspaper reporters who cover the new governors in Massachusetts (Tina Cassidy of the Boston Globe), New Jersey (David Halbfinger of the New York Times), and Wisconsin (Steve Walters of the Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal).