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  • Chamber Music Consortium of the Southwest Upcoming Performances
    Stephen Pugh with Music Forum El Paso and UTEP Piano Professor, Dr. Dena Kay Jones with the Chamber Music Consortium of the Southwest preview upcoming…
  • The Social Security tax rate is scheduled to revert to 6.2 percent next year, up from the temporary reduction — to 4.2 percent on an employee's first $110,000 in wages — which has been in effect since January 2011.
    Payroll Tax Holiday May Not Survive Year's End
    Since January 2011, the government has knocked 2 percentage points off the payroll tax, which funds Social Security. But there's little appetite to extend the tax holiday and a $95 billion price tag.
  • Dr. Siri Books Began With A Surprise Hospital Stay
    Author Colin Cotterill believes in fate. Though he didn't know it at the time, fate seemed to determine early on that he would write the Dr. Siri books, a series of mysteries that follows a 70-something Laotian country coroner. (This piece initially aired August 15, 2008 on Morning Edition).
  • In Krasikov's World, Dreamers Can't Afford Dreams
    Tell Me More is reading literature from countries on the rise in the global arena: the so-called BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Sana Krasikov's short story collection, One More Year, focuses on Russia. She talks with host Michel Martin about her characters and what it takes to make it in Russia.
  • Donna Murphy plays the Witch and Tess Soltau her ward Rapunzel in <em>Into the Woods</em>, running as part of the Public Theater's 50th-anniversary Shakespeare in the Park season.
    'Into The Woods' All Over Again, This Time In An Actual Urban Jungle
    Stephen Sondheim's fractured musical fairy tale is getting a major revival in Central Park. NPR's Trey Graham had a look.
  • Between Pride And Despair: 'Three Strong Women'
    From the commercially and critically successful Marie NDiaye, Three Strong Women moves from Senegal to France and back. The rich prose, translated by John Fletcher, links the lives of the three titular women — Norah, Fanta and Khady — as they navigate their struggles.
  • Ewald Mosel keeps the schwenkers swinging to ensure that the pork cooks evenly, while hungry guests look on.
    Creating A Schwenker World, One Backyard Grill At A Time
    It sounds a little dirty, but a schwenker is just a German word for a swinging grill that looks like a tripod, set over charcoal. Schwenker evangelists are spreading the word about this unique grill around the world.
  • In <em>Bernie</em>, Jack Black plays a local mortician who murders his live-in companion after she won't stop nagging him. The movie is based on a true story.
    Jack Black: On Music, Mayhem And Murder
    Actor Jack Black plays a kindly, small-town funeral director who murders a wealthy millionaire in the new film Bernie. Bernie is now out on DVD.
  • A garbage truck at the Harrisburg, Pa., incinerator.
    Inside America's Most Indebted City
    The bizarre tale includes a do-gooder who skipped town, an epically mismanaged incinerator, and possible criminal behavior.
  • WORDS ON A WIRE: Alfredo Corchado (extended)
    In a rebroadcast from Oct. 27, 2013, Ben & Daniel talk with journalist and author, Alfredo Corchado. Corchado's newest book is "Midnight in Mexico," and…
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