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  • Martha Stewart left prison Friday morning for house arrest on her 153-acre estate in Bedford, N.Y. Fans cheered her return and media followed her homecoming closely. Stock in Stewart's company has nearly tripled since her sentencing, but it remains to be seen how much damage her brand will sustain.
  • ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Martha Raddatz has a new book about a battle that was a turning point in the Iraq war, an April 2004 fight in Baghdad's Sadr City. It was then that American troops realized they were facing an insurgency.
  • The Obama family is taking a summer break. They're scheduled to arrive today on Martha's Vineyard, where they'll spend a week in the sun and out of the spotlight. Or at least they'll try to. Host Liane Hansen talks to Mike Seccombe, senior writer for the Vineyard Gazette about what residents have been doing to prepare.
  • Sequential Brands will pay $353 million in cash and stock for the company. Stewart will remain the chief creative officer in the deal.
  • For all of us who have ever wandered into a room only to freeze, wondering blankly, "Why did I come in here, again?," Martha Weinman Lear has an answer. Lear, the author of Where Did I Leave My Glasses?, discusses the twin issues of memory loss and aging — what degree of forgetfulness is normal, and what can be done about it?
  • At the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival, Black artistry is on display. NPR critic Eric Deggans says it's cultivating a community.
  • And a 1903 Mennonite's "Tiger Scar" birthmark --are among the elements in Jessica Penner's novel, Shaken In The Water. Jessica and WMRA's Martha Woodroof…
  • And many others. WMRA's Martha Woodroof meets Danny Dolinger, who repairs stringed instruments for a living. When Danny (AKA "Fret Boss") bought his first…
  • Martha Woodroof speaks with Staunton’s Lisa Jacenich, a fiber artist who creates felt garments, scarves, and art out of a fabric she describes as, "not…
  • Martha Woodroof speaks with DeLois Warr, who still carries anger from her days growing up in segregated Mount Jackson.She has made a mission out of…
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