At noon:

Celebrating the Artistic Culture of the Bayou

Leonard Lopate hosts an hour-long special featuring selections from “Parting the Waters,” The New Yorker magazine’s September 24th benefit for Hurricane Katrina Relief. The benefit is a celebration of the artistic culture of the Bayou, with musicians, actors and writers from the Gulf Coast region. Guests include: David Byrne and Les Miserables Brass Band, The ReBirth Brass Band, Buckwheat Zydeco, Calvin Trillin, Kevin Kline, David Byrne, Patricia Clarkson, and Richard Ford.

Read all about it here. Please have $50 in essential hurricane-relief funds ready, since the hand of Lopate will reach out from your radio to take it from you. Well, it won’t. But you could write a check.