Filed under: Tomorrow's BPP, Video
Here's a preview of tomorrow's broadcast.
Zena Barakat
3:28 PM ET
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04-28-2008
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Filed under: Stuff We Don't Love, Stuff We Love
Chef Bernard Loiseau's "Cuisses de Grenouille."
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On the show today we talked about the quintessential French dish, frogs' legs ("cuisses de grenouille" en français, which translates to frogs thighs). Our guest, writer Mort Rosenblum, mentioned his favorite recipe, created by 3-star chef Bernard Loiseau.
If you have some frogs' legs and goose fat handy, the recipe, courtesy of The Food Network is after the jump:
Continue reading "Bon Appetit: Frogs' Legs Recipe" »
Tricia McKinney
2:50 PM ET
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04-28-2008
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Filed under: Sound Off
Apparently the economic stimulus money the government has promised is arriving early. About 800,000 recipients will get their money direct-deposited over each of the next three days.
Did you check your bank account? Did you get your money? What are you going to do with it
Tricia McKinney
2:18 PM ET
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04-28-2008
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Filed under: ROFL, Slideshow
The T-shirts of ROFLCon.
Ian Chillag/NPR
You couldn't swing a LOLCat at ROFLCon without hitting an awesome t-shirt.
If you want to hear what ROFLCon was like, check out our segment from today's BPP.
Ian Chillag
2:08 PM ET
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04-28-2008
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Filed under: Maternity Leave
Day 8: I was reading an article in the Sunday New York Times about public radio trying to energize its listenership. As a working woman, soon to be working mother, one paragraph grabbed me, for all the wrong reasons.
"The [Bryant Park Project] had a tough start. One host, Luke Burbank, quit just before the first day, Oct. 1, although he didn't leave until mid-December. The remaining host, Alison Stewart, is on maternity leave. "
Do we still live in a time when maternity leave is seen as a negative, a problem, a hurdle -- something that creates a "tough" situation for co-workers? I've heard of women who hide their pregnancies or don't tell their bosses. When I read this piece, it struck me this paragraph fed into the idea that having a baby is a liability for women in the workplace. Didn't the governor of Alaska just give birth?
I have to admit I was initially kind of nervous to tell my bosses that Bill and I had been overachievers in the baby making department. We were shooting for post-election -- TMI, I know.
For the record NPR has been nothing short of AWESOME about the first BPP baby. My exec producer and BPPeeps are incredibly supportive and frankly, if I can reach around and pat myself on the back, more than once I did the show shortly after barfing in the bathroom 10 minutes before airtime.
So a tough start for us because of a pregnancy and maternity leave? Was that a sexist paragraph in the Times or a grim reality? Just curious what our BPP community thinks. Disagreeing is heartily welcomed.
Alison Stewart
1:40 PM ET
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04-28-2008
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Filed under: Inside The BPP
Chillag, you know not what you drink.
Chillag: What do they have to drink?
Pashman: Well, they list flan as a beverage. And they have something called Morir Soñando.
Chillag: Get me one.
Pashman: What is it?
Chillag: I don't know.
The Morir Soñando is on its way to the BPP along with too many Cuban sandwiches. Garrison said it translates to "to die dreaming." Any guesses what I'm about to drink? No Googling.
Ian Chillag
1:03 PM ET
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04-28-2008
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Filed under: News
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks at Roger Williams University Law School in Bristol, R.I., on April 7.
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In the first of a planned three-part interview with NPR's, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia talks about his more than a quarter century on the nation's top bench.
Totenberg reports that Scalia has carried the conservative banner and often been in the minority. "Though he has failed to persuade a majority of his colleagues on many high-profile cases, supporters and critics alike agree that he has changed the terms of the debate," she writes.
She argues that Scalia and fellow conservative Clarence Thomas do not actually march in lockstep -- despite what liberal observers might say. For one thing, Scalia is far more reluctant to undo an old law.
"I'm an originalist and a textualist, not a nut," he tells her.
And no, he's not a likely running mate for John McCain.
Check it out: Justice Scalia, the Great Dissenter, Opens Up
Laura Conaway
1:01 PM ET
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04-28-2008
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Filed under: Luncheonette, Music
Prince headlined Coachella over the weekend, and played a cover of Radiohead's "Creep" that was by all accounts legendary. It didn't take long for the performance to make it to YouTube:
Dan Pashman
11:52 AM ET
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04-28-2008
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Filed under: Links From the Show
If you're U.C. Berkeley student on your way to jail in Egypt, it helps to have a Twitter account. Collared while covering an anti-government protest, James Karl Buck managed to bang out "arrested" on his cell phone. That word alerted his friends and the school, who got him a lawyer -- and his freedom.
It's the Ramble.
West Virginia governor's daughter didn't earn MBA/ Student Twitters his way out of Egyptian jail/ Revealing photo threatens a major Disney franchise/ James Bond production halted amid fears of a curse
Laura Conaway
9:04 AM ET
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04-28-2008
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Filed under: Election 2008
NPR wants you. Specifically, we want you to tell the world what moves you as a voter. Our new Get My Vote project invites you to express yourself in video, audio or text. Some people think of it as a way to tell politicians what they have to do win you over it. We like to think of it as "Understand My Vote" -- as in, get it?
Like russpears, the guy in the video up there. He wants funding for a free online education system. And seriously, I'm way far from wanting that myself, or at least from marking it as a priority. But disagreeing is half the fun. Check out Get My Vote -- then take a couple of minutes to post your own entry. We'll be blogging the best of your stuff in the weeks to come.
Laura Conaway
7:17 AM ET
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04-28-2008
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