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At Baltimore's "supermax" prison, the warden keeps wayward inmates in line with a bland loaf made from bread, fake cheese, spinach, beans and a host of other unappetizing ingredients. Break the rules, and your menu becomes very simple -- and very tasteless -- for at least a week. Weekend Edition Saturday has the story. (5:00)

Blues veteran Bonnie Raitt talks with Weekend Edition Saturday's Scott Simon about her new album, Silver Lining. The collection of blues numbers, ballads and collaborations with Malian musicians is one of her most varied projects to date.

Commentator Ruth Stonesifer is the mother of one of the first Americans to die in Afghanistan. On Memorial Day, she describes her membership in the Gold Star Mothers, the 75-year-old organization of mothers of American troops who died in the line of duty.

The car company Oldsmobile started in 1897 and ended Thursday, when the very last Olds rolled off the line in Lansing, Michigan. Weekend Edition found some music inspired by America's oldest carmaker and prepared this remembrance. Hear NPR's Scott Simon.

The fat, flightless insects are lining the streets, creating slick roadway conditions that can be dangerous to drive on.

Some 400,000 people lined the streets and stood outside Westminster Abbey in London today for the funeral of the Queen Mother.

NPR's David Molpus reports that only a tiny fraction of U.S. businesses extend benefits to "domestic partners," but in recent years that has started to change. Several hundred businesses have discovered that they can expand the traditional definition of family...and not hurt the bottom line.

NPR's Vicki O'Hara reports that a world trade meeting in Singapore has produced signs of progress on one issue that's important to the United States... information technology. But participants are lining up on two sides of another issue...labor and the rights of the workforce...which is pitting the developed versus the developing world.

Movie critic Bob Mondello says that the major Hollywood studios appear to be more concerned with the bottom line... the profitability of motion pictures... than they are with making risky, provocative movies. Sequels and remakes will dominate the multiplex cinema screens in the coming months, and that doesn't speak well to the tradition of creativity in Hollywood.

NPR's John McChesney reports that a group of computer experts have succeeded in cracking the digital code that protects numbers transmitted over cellular telephone lines. These are not the first flaws found in cellular telphone security, but industry backers say that technology can address these issues, and that there are other layers of security that have not been cracked.