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Melissa Block and Robert Siegel

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Commentary

3:26 pm

Fri April 12, 2013

Week In Politics: Gun Control, Immigration, Obama Budget

Originally published on Fri April 12, 2013 4:20 pm

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Melissa Block talks to regular political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution, and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss gun control legislation, immigration and President Obama's budget.

Media

3:06 pm

Fri April 12, 2013

Great Long-Form Journalism, Just Clicks Away

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As newspapers around the country struggle with declining subscription rates and smaller staffs, passionate, long-form digital storytelling is creating new ways of delivering richly detailed reporting.

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Jacqui Banaszynski, once a Pulitzer Prize-winning print reporter and editor at some of the country's most significant newspapers, says she is pleased by the growth of Web-based narrative journalism.

By David Folkenflik

Originally published on Mon April 15, 2013 10:12 am

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In the age of hundreds of cable channels, millions of 140-character bulletins and an untold number of cat videos, a fear has been growing among journalists and readers that long-form storytelling may be getting lost.

The Picture Show

2:13 pm

Fri April 12, 2013

Trains, Punks, Pictures And Books You Maybe Shouldn't Read

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Photos from the book A Period Of Juvenile Prosperity

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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

Credit Mike Brodie / Twin Palms

Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

Originally published on Fri April 12, 2013 4:20 pm

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Mike Brodie's life, when narrated by an outsider, seems a lot like free association — where one thing leads to the next, leads to the next, etc.

Before he discovered trains, Brodie was bagging groceries in Pensacola, Fla., and really into BMX. Then he met a girl. She worked at the Chinese restaurant in the same strip mall and, he says, "she was like a punk rocker."

The Two-Way

1:56 pm

Fri April 12, 2013

Funny Man Jonathan Winters Dies

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Jonathan Winters on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1969.

By Mark Memmott

Originally published on Fri April 12, 2013 4:20 pm

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Jonathan Winters, known to one generation for his 1960s comedy albums, frequent Tonight Show with Johnny Carson appearances and comic movie characters, and to another generation as Robin Williams' baby on Mork & Mindy, has died. The news is coming from The Associated Press, TMZ, the NPR Arts Desk and other news outlets.

Winters was 87. TMZ says he died Thursday night "of natural causes in Montecito, Calif. ... surrounded by friends and family.

Music Interviews

10:48 am

Fri April 12, 2013

Dale Watson: A Honky-Tonk Man With An Outlaw Spirit

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Dale Watson (second from left) and His Lonestars. Their new album is titled El Rancho Azul.

Originally published on Sat April 20, 2013 10:34 pm

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Honky-tonk veteran Dale Watson has an impressive white pompadour and arms that tell his story: flag tattoos of Alabama, where he was born, and Texas, where he lives. Musical notes circle his biceps. And he has an inked portrait of his first musical inspiration — his late father, a truck driver and sometime country singer who passed on to Dale his love of traditional country, from Hank Williams to Lefty Frizzell.

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