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Movie Reviews
4:03 pm
Thu March 28, 2013

'Retaliation': Harsh Payback For Poor G.I. Joe

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Duke (Channing Tatum) and Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson) are live-action G.I. Joes in the big-screen franchise's latest thoroughly disposable installment.
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An unnamed U.S. president (that's how much the filmmakers care) is kidnapped by a master of disguise (played, like the president, by Jonathan Pryce), who assumes his place and initiates an ... oh, like it matters.
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What's the difference between an action figure and an action star? Very little in G.I. Joe: Retaliation, which features no performances of note, even from such combat-tested thespians as Bruce Willis, Jonathan Pryce and Dwayne Johnson.

The sequel to 2009's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the latest Joe is a near-surrealistic mashup of serious themes and juvenile humor, realistic locations and cheesy CGI. Adapted to 3-D after it was shot, the movie is also one of the most aggressive examples ever of the chucking-stuff-at-the-viewer aesthetic.

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Found Recipes
12:50 pm
Thu March 28, 2013

Tuscan Pie A Sweet Springtime Take On Spinach

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Tuscany's sweet spinach pie is a dish that's often associated with Easter and spring.
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Originally published on Fri March 29, 2013 11:55 am

Easter brings with it many predictable foods: chocolate bunnies, jelly beans, ham, and hard-boiled eggs. But some Italians use the season to feature a surprisingly sweet vegetable dish on their tables.

It's called torta co'bischeri agli spinaci. Francine Segan calls it "Tuscany's sweet spinach pie." Segan is a food historian and author of Dolci: Italy's Sweets. She shared a recipe for the pie for All Things Considered's Found Recipe series.

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NPR Story
10:31 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Former NJ Governor On His 'Fall To Grace'

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Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 2:24 pm

In 2004, Jim McGreevey was the governor of New Jersey and a rising political star. That was until he admitted his homosexuality, and an improper relationship with a male staff member. What happened next is the subject of the new HBO documentary, Fall To Grace. Host Michel Martin speaks with McGreevy and filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi.

Monkey See
7:37 am
Thu March 28, 2013

The Good News Is That We Know 'Idol' Is Really Live Now

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Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 9:56 am

Last night on American Idol was Motown Night, when we all learned that Motown songs (like "I Heard It Through The Grapevine") should all be sung as seriously as possible, wearing a scowl, with all the fun sucked out. (And that was a performance that was pretty good.) It's in keeping with this season, in which melodramatic ballads have dominated even more than usual.

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The Two-Way
6:22 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Book News: Taliban Shooting Victim Is Publishing A Memoir: 'I Am Malala'

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Pakistani teen Malala Yousafzai is pictured during her recovery at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, about a month after she was shot.
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By Annalisa Quinn

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 7:25 am

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.

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First Reads
6:03 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Exclusive First Read: Kate Atkinson's 'Life After Life'

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Kate Atkinson's first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, was named the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1995.
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On a snowy night in 1910, a baby girl is born — and dies before she can take her first breath. She is born — and grows up to become an assassin who eliminates Hitler before he can take power. She is born — and lives a handful of different lives in a Britain descending into war; the book jumps from one narrative to another with a dreamy sort of logic. "Time isn't circular," she tells a therapist at one point. "It's like a ... palimpsest. ...

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The Salt
2:43 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Reviving The Spirit And Schmaltz Of The Jewish Deli

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Nick Wiseman, partner at DGS Delicatessen, inspects the kitchen as an employee prepares pastrami sandwiches for lunch in Washington, D.C.
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Barry Koslow, DGS executive chef, demonstrates the proper technique for rolling a matzo ball. His take on traditional matzo ball soup for Passover includes roasted bone marrow.
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Just before lunchtime, people line up outside DGS Delicatessen on Connecticut Avenue in D.C.'s Dupont Circle. It's been open for just four months, and some customers say the nation's capital was overdue for a Jewish delicatessen.
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Barry Koslow worked as a chef cooking other cuisines before turning his talents to his cultural roots.
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Koslow shows Morning Edition host David Greene how to boil the rolled matzo balls. The chef says he has rolled hundreds of these starchy orbs each day during Passover.
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A selection of DGS' pickled offerings, including carrots, mushrooms and egg. DGS makes all of its pickled and smoked offerings in-house.
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"There's this whole movement of people wanting to make everything from scratch," Koslow says. Restaurant workers prepare their own mustard by the gallon. A batch this size is about enough to last through the weekend crowds.
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DGS' signature pastrami sandwiches and pickles.
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The kitchen and front seating at DGS during lunch.
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An earlier generation of deli owners, and relatives of the DGS partners, keeps watch over a to-go bag at the restaurant's walk-up counter.
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Koslow grabs ingredients from the walk-in refrigerator that houses all of the deli's pickled vegetables and smoked meat. "We'll pickle anything," he says.
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The finished matzo ball soup is a centerpiece of DGS' Passover meal.
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Nick Wiseman, partner at DGS Delicatessen, inspects the kitchen as an employee prepares pastrami sandwiches for lunch.
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DGS' signature pastrami sandwiches and pickles.
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Barry Koslow, chef of DGS Delicatessen, demonstrates the proper technique for rolling a matzo ball. He has updated the traditional Passover meal with ingredients such as bone marrow.
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By Padmananda Rama

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 9:55 am

  • Hear David Greene's Story

On a recent morning, just south of Washington, D.C.'s Dupont Circle, about a dozen people are lined up outside a restaurant waiting for its lunchtime opening.

Jon and Ralph Rosenbaum are at the front of the line and are the first to be greeted by DGS Delicatessen general manager Brian Zipin, who leads them down a white tile hallway and seats them at a small table against a brick-exposed wall.

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Movies
4:33 pm
Wed March 27, 2013

Hollywood's History Of Putting Gay Rights On Trial

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Originally published on Wed March 27, 2013 8:55 pm

With the Supreme Court hearing arguments this week on same-sex marriage, I'd like to point out a parallel evolution in what I see as a Hollywood mini-genre: films in which gay characters are either taken to court or seek redress in court for issues involving their sexuality.

Arguably the most famous question ever asked in a courtroom about a line of poetry — "What is the love that dare not speak its name?" — was originally put to playwright Oscar Wilde in 1894 by a British prosecutor. It was an attempt to trap Wilde into admitting to then-illegal homosexual conduct.

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Book Reviews
1:09 pm
Wed March 27, 2013

The Apathy In 'A Thousand Pardons' Is Hard To Forgive

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Jonathan Dee's novel The Privileges was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize.
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Originally published on Wed March 27, 2013 3:32 pm

Jonathan Dee likes to write about rich, good-looking people falling apart — and who among the 99 percent of us can't enjoy that plot? In The Privileges, the dad of the family was a Wall Street trader, tempted by existential boredom into larceny; in A Thousand Pardons, the dad of the family is a partner in a New York law firm, tempted by existential boredom into a disastrous workplace affair.

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Television
1:09 pm
Wed March 27, 2013

Chris Hayes: From 'Up' In The Morning To 'All In' At Night

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Anchor Chris Hayes will host a new MSNBC weeknight show beginning April 1.
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On Monday evening on MSNBC, All In with Chris Hayes will premiere, making the 34-year-old the youngest prime-time anchor on any of the major cable news channels. For the past 18 months, he has hosted an early morning weekend show — Up with Chris Hayes — on MSNBC, but he's already a familiar face to MSNBC evening viewers: He has frequently filled in for Rachel Maddow and has been a popular guest on her show.

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