Recent Posts
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 12, 2023 – Nancy Lawson on Weed-Fighting Natives
When I spoke to naturalist and nature writer Nancy Lawson recently about her adventures in wildscaping at her Maryland garden, there was one topic in particular that I wanted to double back to, and dig in deeper: her tactics for fighting unwanted… Read More ›
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David Sterritt with Films in Focus: You Hurt My Feelings; The Worst Ones; Reality
David Sterritt is a film critic, author, teacher and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until… Read More ›
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Arthur Schwartz the Food Maven: Baking Again
Arthur Schwartz was the restaurant critic and executive food editor of the New York Daily News for 18 years. Perhaps what he’s best known for is as a chameleon—he’s successfully worked in radio, print media, cookbook publishing, TV, and teaching…. Read More ›
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 29, 2023 – Ken Druse on Primula From Seed
I was remarking to my friend Ken Druse earlier this spring about a garden I’d just visited, and how the stands of primulas in it made me jealous, and crave more more more. But only a few primrose varieties are… Read More ›
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 1, 2023 – Jenks Farmer on Pineapple Lilies
I am crazy about pineapple lilies – bulbs in the genus Eucomis – and though in my Zone 5 garden they aren’t hardy, I can’t imagine a growing season without pots full of them. In his South Carolina garden and… Read More ›
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Republican-American Report – May 8, 2023
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Arthur Schwartz the Food Maven: Breadcrumbs; Old Bread
Arthur Schwartz was the restaurant critic and executive food editor of the New York Daily News for 18 years. Perhaps what he’s best known for is as a chameleon—he’s successfully worked in radio, print media, cookbook publishing, TV, and teaching…. Read More ›
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The Daily Planets with Jill Goodman – Monday May 8, 2023
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Susan Says with Susan Silver: One a Day
.As the lyrics from the iconic Mary Tyler Moore Show said, “She made it after all!” From another Midwestern town, Milwaukee, with all its 1960’s values and normalcy, Susan went on to fame and fortune in Hollywood, had a successful… Read More ›
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The Media Beat with David Tereshchuk – Friday May 5, 2023
THE MEDIA BEAT WAS FIRST COMMISSIONED IN 2004 BY TRIBUNE NEWSPAPERS FROM JOURNALIST AND MEDIA CRITIC DAVID TERESHCHUK. IT RAN AS A WEEKLY FEATURE IN TRIBUNE’S NEW YORK CITY DAILY, ‘am new york’ UNTIL TERESHCHUK TOOK THE COLUMN ONLINE IN 2006. THIS WEB… Read More ›