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A new opera with libretto by Ben Katchor. Katchor is the creator of the comic strip, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. Like the strip, the opera springs from Katchor's fascination with the urban landscape - specifically, two different buildings and their very different inhabitants. The work is being performed by musicians from the New York new music collective called Bang on a Can, at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts, this weekend. Charlene Scott, of member station WFCR in Amherst, has the story.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the final day of the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Last night, Texas Governor George W. Bush accepted the GOP nomination. In his acceptance speech, Bush told delegates that he'll work for better education, stronger Social Security and Medicare, lower tax rates, a stronger military. He accused the Clinton-Gore administration of squandering the opportunities presented by the good economic times and the huge government surpluses.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on Republican Presidential Nominee George W. Bush's low key treatment of the issue of foreign policy.

Host Alex Chadwick talks with Mario Martinez, county commissioner of Hale County, Texas, where the duties of local government were recently limited by the county attorney.

Host Alex Chadwick talks to NPR's Cokie Roberts and Charlie Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report about this week's Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Last night, Texas governor George W. Bush accepted his party's presidential nomination in a speech that warned of a tough fight ahead against Vice President Al Gore.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Coyote Ugly. He says it's not likely to win any awards but is a perfectly fun summer movie.

Co-Host Madeleine Brand talks to Susan Fillapelli, a communications professor at the University of Auburn in Alabama about some of the speeches at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.

Linda speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep who is travelling with the Bush-Cheney campaign on its train tour of several Great Lakes states. The newly nominated Republican team rallied in Philadelphia this morning, flew to Pittsburgh, and boarded a train for the Middle West.

NPR's Neal Conan says that being at the ballpark, broadcasting a minor league baseball game can be more exciting than reporting from a national political convention.

NPR's Renee Montagne profiles writer Thomas Lynch. He's an award winning essayist and poet ...and he leads a double life. Lynch also is the proprietor of Lynch and Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan. (8:40) The name of the book mentioned Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch is published by W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 03930