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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Interviews
Eat Up — And Don't Forget the Palate Cleansers
July 10, 2007 Food scientist Massimo Marcone travels the world's remotest corners to investigate bizarre food "delicacies": cheese infested with squirming maggots, coffee brewed from coffee beans extracted from the feces of a cat-like creature, and so on. Marconi's new book is In Bad Taste? The Adventures and Science Behind Food Delicacies.
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Interviews
Filmmaker Herzog's 'Grizzly' Tale of Life and Death
July 28, 2005 The new documentary Grizzly Man by German filmmaker Werner Herzog tells the story of Timothy Treadwell, who lived for 13 years — and died — among the bears in Alaska. Treadwell and his girlfriend were found dead in October 2003, killed by the animals he had grown to love so much.
Friday, April 22, 2005
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Media
Writer Bill Crawford on Border Blasters
April 21, 2005 Crawford is co-author of the book, "Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves." It's about the "border blaster" stations that set up across the Mexican border to evade U.S. regulations, and beamed their broadcasting into the United States.
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Monday, April 18, 2005
Monday, February 28, 2005
Interviews
'Downfall' from Ganz and Hirschbiegel
February 28, 2005 Actor Bruno Ganz and director Oliver Hirschbiegel's new film is Downfall, about the last days of Hitler. Ganz stars as Adolf Hitler. He's made over 80 films mostly in German, and was in the recent remake of The Manchurian Candidate. Downfall is Hirschbiegel's third film, and his most popular to date.
Sports
Baseball's Spaceman Lee on Drugs and the Game
February 28, 2005 Bill "Spaceman" Lee's new memoir is Have Glove, Will Travel: The Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond. The book picks up where Lee's previous memoir, The Wrong Stuff, left off in 1984.
Tuesday, June 03, 2003
