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Scott Simon/ Audie Cornish

The program wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories.

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Movie Interviews
3:03 am
Sat March 16, 2013

'Leviathan': The Fishing Life, From 360 Degrees

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The noisy film is mostly wordless, with animals and nature filling in the blanks between its strangely stark images.
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Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, co-directors of the new documentary Leviathan, at a public screening of their film. Both are members of Harvard University's experimental Sensory Ethnography Lab.
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Originally published on Sat March 16, 2013 6:46 am

Leviathan is a documentary — and yet not a documentary. It's a near-wordless, almost abstract depiction of an 80-foot groundfishing boat heading out of New Bedford, Mass. The film's unusual structure and point of view has gotten rave reviews at festivals and from many critics.

Sometimes you don't know quite what you're seeing and listening to in Leviathan. You hear metal groaning and rasping, see fish, gloves and tools tossed about on a boat that's pitching and rolling in a roaring wind.

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Simon Says
7:18 am
Sat March 9, 2013

Snowquester Fizzles, But We're Humbled Anyway

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The failed Snowquester reminds us, during a time of national debate, that experts can still be wrong.
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Originally published on Sat March 9, 2013 1:22 pm

Snowquester fizzled.

Wednesday was more or less canceled this week in official Washington, D.C. An enormous winter storm bore down on the region, threatening ice, a foot of snow in the city (more in the suburbs), and wind and misery throughout the region.

Most of the federal government was closed. I know, I know. How could they tell? Local governments and schools, too. Flights were canceled, planes diverted, and throngs descended on grocery stores, picking the shelves clean of bread, milk and toilet tissue.

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Sports
7:18 am
Sat March 9, 2013

Half Blind, All Baseball Pitcher

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Middle East
7:18 am
Sat March 9, 2013

Unrest Boils As Egyptian Court Confirms Death Sentences

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. A court in Egypt today upheld the death sentences of 21 soccer fans from Port Said for murder during a bloody soccer riot that occurred there last year. And the court's decision apparently enraged the city.

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Art & Design
7:18 am
Sat March 9, 2013

Painter Llyn Foulkes Creates On The Fringes Of The Art World

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By Carolina Miranda

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