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The Café Edison serves what might be called Jewish soul food — blintzes, matzoh ball soup and kasha varnishkes.

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Don't Let The Kasha Vanish: Diners Band Together To Save Café Edison

10:49am December 09, 2014

by Jeff Lunden

Also known as the Polish Tea Room, the Café Edison is a favorite of regular New Yorkers and Broadway stars and crew. Now, Jeff Lunden reports it's being threatened with eviction by its landlord.

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How Washington's Odd Couple Transformed Welfare

10:49am December 09, 2014

by NPR Staff

The new book The Professor and the President looks back at how Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan pushed the Nixon White House to embrace a relatively liberal plan.

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SECCA's "Light Forms" Exhibits the Work of Danish Artist Emil Salto

8:27am December 09, 2014

by David Ford

Danish artist Emil Salto has a fascinating new exhibit titled Light Forms going on at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.

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Doritos Loaded: Just nachos that keep their feelings on the inside.

Sandwich Monday: Doritos Loaded

4:20pm December 08, 2014

by Ian Chillag

For this week's Sandwich Monday, we try 7-Eleven's latest creation, Doritos Loaded. They're a vaguely Doritos-shaped fried thing stuffed with cheese.

Chris Rock wrote, directed and stars in Top Five, a film about a standup comedian who is trying to reshape his career.

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Chris Rock On Finding The Line Between Funny And 'Too Far'

1:52pm December 08, 2014

"No comedian wants to have to analyze and defend" jokes, says Rock, who wrote, directed and stars in the new film Top Five. He adds: "I'm not a politician; I'm not a thinker. I'm a comedian."

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Master butcher Kari Underly cuts into a hog during a "Women in the Meat Business" workshop in Chapel Hill, NC.

Female Butchers Are Slicing Through The Meat World's Glass Ceiling

1:30pm December 08, 2014

by Leoneda Inge

The meat industry traditionally has been a male-dominated field. But as demand for local meat grows, that's made more room for women to carve out ownership roles in the business.

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Triad Arts Wants Your Holiday Submissions!

1:17pm December 08, 2014

by David Ford

Dear Triad Artist:

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Spanish Artist Francisco Goya On Display In Boston: An Extraordinary Exhibit

1:13pm December 08, 2014

by Lloyd Schwartz

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has assembled one of the largest exhibits of Goya's artwork ever seen in the U.S. His paintings, prints and drawings range in technique from exquisitely refined to raw.

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Piedmont Wind Symphony Founder and Conductor Rob Simon to Step Down

11:05am December 08, 2014

by David Ford

This week, after 25 years on the podium, Piedmont Wind Symphony Founder and Conductor Rob Simon

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Here traces millenia of history — and prehistory — within the space of one large room.

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Millennia Of History, Beautifully Illustrated 'Here' In One Room

11:05am December 08, 2014

by Etelka Lehoczky

Richard McGuire's Here started small — as an underground magazine cartoon 25 years ago. But it's grown to an epoch-spanning narrative that captures all the bits of history happening in one room.