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The Next Big Thing
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What’s Cooking
Cooking without a kitchen. Texas band “Brave Combo” demonstrates how they concoct their unique Tex-Mex-Polka-Punk brand of rock and roll. Television producer John Markus on the art of barbeque. Also, writer and performer Deb Margolin on the layered language of our daily lives.
Henry’s Prayer
Television evangelist Pat Robertson has been urging his followers to pray for the early retirement of three liberal Supreme Court justices. Next Big Thing contributor Henry Alford follows Robertson’s counsel, and adds a few retirement prayers of his own.
For the Love of Barbeque
Television writer and producer John Markus has mastered the art of the sitcom, as evidenced by the Emmys he’s won for his work on “The Cosby Show” and “The Larry Sanders Show.” But his true passion – the art form to which he’s devoted hours of research – is barbeque. He serves up his philosophy of both TV and barbeque on a summer’s afternoon. Produced by Amanda Aronczyk.
Mixing It Up
Texas-based band Brave Combo plays an eclectic blend that’s part polka, part punk, part habanera and much more. Here, cooking show meets performance chat when Brave Combo band leader Carl Finch shows host Dean Olsher how the band mixes all these ingredients together. Playing along: fellow band members Jeffrey Barnes, Danny O’Brien, Alan Emert, and Bubba Hernandez.
What’s Your Word?
Erin McKean, editor of the New Oxford American Dictionary and of Verbatim magazine, fields calls from ambitious listeners who want to get a new word into circulation.
The Index to Idioms
The meaning of an idiom is, by definition, more than the sum of its parts. Writer and performer Deb Margolin takes that idea even further. She uses idioms as launching pads for short fictional monologues about the life of a suburban mother and her two children. Excerpts from her “Index to Idioms” produced by Curtis Fox.