Francis Ford Coppola Reflects On His Film Career

Note: In September, Francis Ford Coppola spoke to Cameron Bailey, the director of the Toronto International Film Festival, in front of a sold-out audience at TIFF’s Bell Lightbox multiplex. During the discussion, Coppola also took questions from audience members about working with A-list actors, his writing process, screenwriting and rumors about another Godfather movie. Fresh [...]

Thanksgiving Secrets: Cook’s Tips From Chris Kimball

A cook’s secrets are meant to stay in the kitchen. An off-recipe substitution; a unique addition; an improvised technique — they often come from inspiration, or just a sense of craft, that can make a home chef both proud and protective. Luckily for us, Chris Kimball of America’s Test Kitchen is happy to share the [...]

A Sweet, Southern Thanksgiving Treat From B. Smith

As Thanksgiving approaches, you can almost smell and taste the turkey, buttered collard greens and soft corn bread stuffing. As a pre-feast treat, Tell Me More guest host Tony Cox visits a woman whose name to many is synonymous with fine Southern cuisine and entertaining: Barbara Smith, also known as B. Smith. Today, she runs [...]

Bush Meat: When Conservation And Child Nutrition Collide

With its big, round eyes and bushy tail, the aye-aye lemur looks like a a cross between a monkey and a squirrel. To many people in Madagascar, it’s a tasty, traditional meal, and an excellent source of protein and iron. But with as few as 1,000 to 10,000 lemurs left on the island, conservationists say [...]

Here Comes The Judge: A New Prescription For Medical Malpractice

The medical malpractice system is considered broken by many providers and politicians, a cause of runaway healthcare spending and an open door for plaintiffs to pursue frivolous lawsuits in the hope of a hefty payday. The reality, of course, is more complicated than that. A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine [...]

2011′s Best Cookbooks: Revenge Of The Kitchen Nerds

For years they’ve toiled in the kitchens and at the tables, accumulating skills, smarts and lore. They’ve traveled the unknown fringes of heavily touristed countries in search of endangered recipes. They’ve spent long months studying exactly what happens to any given kind of food in a 400-degree oven. They’ve broken the code to discover what [...]

Occupy America: The Commemorative Game

What began in the fall of 2011 as the amorphous Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City morphed into Occupy America, a nationwide diorama drama containing many elements of a board game — positive steps, punishing losses of turn and, in some cities such as Hartford, Conn., occasional free parking. The movement against greed, [...]

In ‘The Artist,’ A Silent Look At Old Hollywood

Director Michel Hazanavicius met me at the Bradbury building in downtown L.A. It’s the location of a key scene in his audacious new movie The Artist, which takes place just at the moment when talking pictures supersede silent films. “It’s mythic,” said Hazanavicius of the era during which Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford [...]

Did Bush Tax Cuts Foreshadow Committee’s Failure?

Lawmakers have spent much of this year struggling to reach a deal that could get budget deficits under control. But the problem has been developing for at least a decade. Young voters might not be familiar with the government of the year 2000 — at least not by its balance sheet. The economy: booming. Tax [...]

Egyptian Protesters Push For A ‘Second Revolution’

Egyptians responding to a call for a mass rally began flowing into Tahrir Square on Tuesday and fresh clashes broke out elsewhere in Cairo as protests demanding that the country’s military rulers step down entered a fourth day. Activists are hoping to increase the number of protesters in the square, which was the epicenter of [...]