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Morning Edition scoots over to the West Coast this week, broadcasting from NPR's Los Angeles bureau. As part of his series on L.A., John Ridley, NPR commentator and writer of film, television and novels, takes a road-eye view of the city's car culture.

A small but significant number of people are getting sick and finding the usual antibiotics don't work, because the strain of bacteria that's making them sick has become resistant to the drug. The cause is widely believed to be the common practice of feeding antibiotics to farm animals.

Noah Adams talks with Charles Davis, president of Habagallo Foods in McAllen, Texas, about his new cocktail mix for the Michelada cocktail. The New York Times food critic says the drink tasted like the best steak he ever had.

NPR's Tom Gjelten looks for hints at Cuba's future in a battle over one of Cuba's signature products: Cuban rum. The story involves the Bacardi family of Santiago, Cuba, which developed rum in the 19th century, but left after Castro imposed Communism.

An oil painting by Marc Chagall was stolen from the Jewish Museum in New York two months ago. Now there's news that the painting is being held for ransom. The demand: peace in the Middle East in exchange for the painting's return.

Musician Jacob Slichter, drummer for the rock band Semisonic, leads us through a day in the life of a band on tour. As it turns out, it's not the roller coaster ride one would expect.

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird is in the news again. The city of Chicago has chosen the 1960 classic for The Chicago reading initiative "One Book, One Chicago." The same day Chicago announced the selection, Muskogee High School in Oklahoma removed the book from its required reading list for freshmen. Guest host Melissa Block talks with Mary Dempsey, commissioner for the Chicago Public Library, and Muriel Saunders, a member of the Muskogee School Board in Oklahoma, about the decisions made by both cities. We also hear excerpts from the audio version of the book as narrated by Sally Darling and produced by Recorded Books.

NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on one woman's quest to track the bluefin tuna. Her findings over the past five years may change the way the tuna is harvested and managed.

As we continue to mark the five year anniversary of the welfare reform law, host Melissa Block talks about the future of the law with Marvin Olasky, author and Senior Fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, and Rebecca Blank, former adviser to President Bill Clinton and current Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

In 1999, NPR listeners started sending in their stories to author Paul Auster for broadcast on NPR. The tales are now in a book. Join host Lisa Simeone on Weekend All Things Considered to hear excerpts from I Thought My Father Was God.