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Urban professionals in Mobile, Ala., react to last night's State of the Union address.

In the last part of Morning Edition's February series on what makes a city great, NPR's Susan Stamberg hears how a rich cultural mix, great shopping, and exotic food made people head to London and Amsterdam in droves -- in the 1600's. She speaks with author and historian Simon Schama about the color -- and the dreck, drugs and drink -- of these great cities three centuries ago.

Scott talks with Dolly Parton about her new CD, Little Sparrow. After a wildly successful career as a country music singer, Dolly is returning to the bluegrass and mountain music she heard growing up in eastern Tennessee. Little Sparrow is released on Sugar Hill Records.

NPR's Nancy Marshall reports on the tradition of New Year's resolutions and how philosophers from Hobbes to Plato might help us keep them.

Ninety years after a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York killed 146 workers, host Lisa Simeone talks with Dana Walden, the granddaughter of one survivor of the fire. Rose Freedman was the oldest living survivor of the fire until her death in Februrary. We hear clips of Freedman from a documentary series, The Living Century, which aired on PBS stations in December and January. More information about the documentary and Freedman can be found at http://www.thelivingcentury.com or http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire.

A coordinated series of worldwide parties commemorates the first human space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on this date in 1961. NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to George Whiteside, the organizer of the event, and Tony Watson, a deejay who will link the parties with the music he plays on the Internet.

Susan Stamberg presents a variation of her annual Thanksgiving recipe for cranberry relish. This year she had assistance from composer Rodney Lister of the New England Conservatory of Music and soprano Denise Konicek.

In his three-part series on the oil century, John Burnett reports that a century ago, a gusher blew on Spindletop Hill in southeast Texas, inaugurating America's infatuation with oil and gas. The first of the great southwest oil fields, Spindletop made America a global energy power, virtually overnight.

On Jan. 22, 1991 three AIDS activists snuck onto the set of the CBS Evening News. John Weir, one of those men, spoke on AIDS community television about getting the attention of the nation.

Scott talks with Lucinda Williams about her new CD, Essence (Lost Highway, 088 170 197-2). This is Ms. Williams' sixth major label recording. Her last release, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, won a Grammy in 1998 for Best Folk Album.