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Jeffersonian Cuisine Gets Ready for Its Close-up, and Blogger Bids You Adieu

At the risk of coming across as someone who loves food and PBS a little too much, I’ll chance my reputation as a foodie-public-televison purist and tell you all about the wonderful article that Jane...

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Got Duel? Hamilton Podcast and My Favorite Commercial of All Time

It’s a dreary Friday, and I’d really prefer to be reading on my chaise at home than worrying about whether the rain will subside before my lunch hour. If I were with a good book right now, it would be...

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Historical Nibbles: Food for Thought

Who isn’t excited to see “Julie & Julia” next week? This will be the sort of movie for which you arrange a divine dinner date beforehand — don’t come hungry, because a tub of greasy popcorn and...

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Ken Burns Does His Own September Glossy

I can scarcely believe it was nearly two months ago that I urged everyone to visit a National Park for free. Where has the summer gone? (By the way, you’ve got just one more weekend to take advantage...

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Putting the 1916 Shark Panic in Context

While I usually reserve Fridays for a post-podcast discussion, I thought I’d break the rules in regard to our recent podcast on the 1916 Jersey Shore shark attacks. As some of you may know, one of the...

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Celebrities Come to the White House for Tours and with Agendas

Since Thursday, The New York Times has been running an article in its Style section about “Star Power in the White House.” Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen a good share of articles about volunteerism...

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Good Things Come in P’s: Podcast, Panama Canal and Prostitution

The former district of Storyville, photographed in 1955. (Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images) It’s a lovely morning in Atlanta. The sun is shining, there’s a gentle breeze and we’re celebrating Shorts...

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Figs: Forbidden Fruits of Biblical Proportion?

Sure, they're the "sexiest" fruit, but are they the forbidden one? (David Silverman/Getty Images) I’m wild about figs. After a long run, I refuel with fig bars.  I love to put a jar of fig preserves on...

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How will this gold rush debate pan out?

My former SYMHC co-host Jane has been a D.C. resident now for a few months, but she still has Georgia on her mind. She sent me a link to a New York Times article titled “On a Map of Georgia, Old Words...

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Brown v. Deterioration: Saving Sumner Elementary School

Brown v. Board of Education is one of the most famous court cases in U.S. history. Third-grader Linda Brown was denied admission at Sumner Elementary, a school with an all-white student body. Sumner...

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