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Just in time for the holidays! Create handmade cards, gift tags, and postcards in this fun Art From Scrap workshop for adults with Simon Keifer and Rebecca Zendejas.

Learn how to collage found materials to make original designs. Then type your holiday greetings on vintage typewriters to add personal messages to your creations. Your ticket includes all materials for the workshops and two hours of instruction.

Instead of buying new, make original cards and gift tags out of reuse materials. Start your eco friendly holiday season off with us on Friday, December 2nd from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, upstairs in the Art From Scrap Workshop. See you there!

The No Child Left Behind Act requires low-income schools that haven't met performance targets for three years in a row to provide tutoring services to their students. The tutoring industry is benefiting from the influx of federal money, but critics worry about the quality of the services. In our second and final story on the rise of tutoring, Elaine Korry reports.

In a call with top state voting officials, a Department of Homeland Security official stated unequivocally that immigration agents would not be patrolling polling places during this year's midterms.

This week, we've finally received an infusion of fresh blood in the form of a brand-new album and a brand-new song — by two different artists, no less! — debuting at No. 1.

What would a local news broadcast be without its rousing Action News! theme song? Host David Wright speaks with 24-year-old Byron Graziano of New York City, who collects local news themes for his web site, the TV News Music Museum. http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/7612/

In the first of a two part series, NPR's Alex Chadwick and the rest of the Radio Expeditions team travel to Palmyra, a remote atoll in the central Pacific. After turning down offers made by everyone from developers to the U.S. government, Palmyra's owners have finally sold the property to a preservation group that will leave the pristine environment untouched. Check out our Web feature on this series.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports that although the Internet has been filled with official and unofficial Olympic websites... most of those sites do not feature video and audio from the actual events. The International Olympic Committee has banned sounds and pictures on the Internet, in an effort to keep TV viewers from defecting to the web.

The Internet has exploded the way we do business but according to author Christopher Kush, it hasn't had much impact on how we govern. Many of us can't find the information we want from all that's on line. Kush speaks to host Jacki Lyden about web sites that can make you a more informed voter.

Commentator Marianne Jennings has had it up to here with the proliferation of web sites...do we really need this many? Everyone--from the FBI to the makers of Gatorade--is getting into the act. As she navigates the treacherous surf of www.com, she wonders if one can still get information the old fashioned way.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Jeff Cardille, founder of www.nadertrader.org, a Web site that encourages voters to swap their vote. Cardille says this idea will help Al Gore win the White House and secure the more than 5 percent of the national vote needed by Ralph Nader to qualify for federal election funds in 2004.