The Next Big Thing

What’s on Your Mind?

We put the question to folks in Seattle. Gathered by Jake Warga and produced by Jill Krauss.

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Home Insecurity

Recently, an emergency kit showed up at Next Big Thing contributor Jesse Green’s apartment, courtesy of someone who’s concerned for his safety. Unfortunately, the pack does NOT seem to be bringing him piece of mind. Produced by Emily Botein.

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The Mike and Mary Show

You’ve heard the rumors – liberal talk radio (with attitude) is headed our way. Here’s our best guess of what that might sound like, created by Mike Daisey, Mary Purdy and Steve Bodow, with help from Jean-Michele Gregory. Produced by Curtis Fox.

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As It Is Written

The New Testament as we know it today is many translations removed from the original Greek, and each translation has been conditioned by the historical circumstances under which it was written. That goes for the original, too. A few years ago, translator and retired professor of comparative literature Willis Barnstone decided it was time for a new translation that would be true to the Greek in which it was first written, but also true to the context in which it was written, and the people it was written about. He and host Dean Olsher reflect on this radical project. Produced by Curtis Fox.

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Cooking with History

Andras Koerner, never one to take a hobby lightly, decided in his 50s that he needed to learn to cook and plowed his way through every French cookbook he could get his hands on. It didn’t take long before he turned to a collection of recipes set down by his great-grandmother in Hungary. In them, he discovered a world that’s since disappeared. He’s combined recipes and other artifacts of her life in a book, A Taste of the Past: The Daily Life and Cooking of a Nineteenth Century Hungarian Jewish Homemaker. Host Dean Olsher joins him in his kitchen to test out one of the recipes. Produced by Amanda Aronczyk.

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Year of the Goat, cont'd.

Sam Sianis, owner of the Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago (Karl Schatz/Yearofthegoat.net)

We catch up with Karl Schatz and Margaret Hathaway, who continue to crisscross the country in search of goats and goatlore. Here, they meet up at the Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago to discuss the Cubs and the curse put upon them by a man and his goat.

» You can find more photos and details of their goat adventures here.
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You’re Under Arrest (Baby)

Chuck Denault is a police officer in a small town in Maine. He is deeply serious about two things: serving the community he lives in and being the best possible Elvis impersonator he can be. Here he sheds light on some behind-the-scenes apects of both law enforcement and Elvis impersonating. By independent producer Adam Allington.

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Not Again

Katie Davis

Over the years, Washington-based journalist and community activist Katie Davis has gotten to know many young people in the Adams-Morgan neighborhood where she lives. She roots for them on the basketball court, she teaches them to repair bicycles. Now, she has to confront her resistance to attending the funeral of yet another young black man in that community. Davis's "Neighborhood Stories" series is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

» Listen to audio portraits from Katie Davis' Neighborhood Stories radio series on ATC

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