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Weekend Edition on WUKY

8 - 10 am, Saturdays and Sundays
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Saturday and Sunday mornings are made for Weekend Edition. 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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Music News
6:51 pm
Fri January 20, 2012

Artists React To Mexico's Drug War With Music And Poetry

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Astrid Hadad performs in Mexico.
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Javier Sicilia speaks at a rally in Los Angeles.
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By Betto Arcos

Javier Sicilia is a novelist and a poet. In 2009, he was awarded Mexico's prestigious Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize. This September, he read a poem dedicated to his son, Juan Francisco, at a rally:

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NPR Story
2:00 pm
Sat January 14, 2012

Italian Cruise Ship Runs Aground

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News, I'm Scott Simon. An enormous cruise ship is lying on its side in the Mediterranean today. The Italian ship, Costa Concordia, ran aground off Italy's Tuscan coast, killing at least three people. Passengers described scenes reminiscent of the Titanic. Fabio Costa was working in a shop on the cruise liner when he felt a jolt.

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Simon Says
9:15 am
Sat January 14, 2012

Zambia Official Talks the Talk, Jumps the Jump

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Zambia's tourism minister Given Lubinda bungee-jumped off of a bridge at Victoria Falls to invite tourists back.
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Given Lubinda jumped off a bridge this week and popped up smiling.

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NPR Story
8:00 am
Sat January 14, 2012

Karaoke Copyrights: Taking Back The Music

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Karaoke machine manufacturers and the distributors of karaoke CDs have had an uphill battle fighting copyright infringement cases brought by music publishers. One player in the karaoke business is fighting a joint venture of Sony and the estate of Michael Jackson over a $1.28-billion bill. Host Scott Simon has more.

Movies
6:01 am
Sat January 14, 2012

Wim Wenders On 'Pina': A Dance Documentary In 3-D

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Damiano Ottavio Bigi and Clementine Deluy, both members of the Tanztheater Wuppertal under Pina Bausch, perform her choreography in Pina.
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Director Wim Wenders says he was thoroughly uninterested in dance — until seeing Bausch's work in 1985. The evening inspired a decades-long collaboration with her.
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Bausch's unconventional approach to subject matter and staging challenged Wenders when representing the work on screen.
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The film Pina is Germany's official entry at the 84th Academy Awards — and a collaboration between two famous Germans of the postwar generation. The filmmaker Wim Wenders captures the groundbreaking modern-dance choreography of the late Pina Bausch, in what many critics are calling a groundbreaking use of 3-D film.

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Author Interviews
5:00 am
Sat January 14, 2012

Is It Time For You To Go On An 'Information Diet'?

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"Clicks have consequences" says Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet.
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Clay A. Johnson is the founder of Blue State Digital and former director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation.
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We're used to thinking of "obesity" in physical terms — unhealthful weight that clogs our arteries and strains our hearts. But there's also an obesity of information that clogs our eyes and our minds and our inboxes: unhealthful information deep-fried in our own preconceptions.

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Marin Alsop on Music
4:34 pm
Fri January 13, 2012

Alsop Sprach Zarathustra: Decoding Strauss' Tone Poem

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Richard Strauss' iconic opening to Also Sprach Zarathustra evokes a sense of vastness and power, Marin Alsop says.
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Alsop says Strauss poses big questions in his music.
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I can't imagine a more stimulating conversation opener than "God is dead." Indeed, this quote by Friedrich Nietzsche sparked heated debate in his time, as it still does today. But how many of us know the writings of this 19th-century philosopher?

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Music News
4:25 pm
Fri January 13, 2012

Red Heart The Ticker: Raising The Dead Via Folk Music

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Tyler Gibbons and Robin MacArthur of Red Heart the Ticker.
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Margaret MacArthur cradles a young Robin.
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Family heirlooms take all shapes: a pocket watch, a painting. For Robin MacArthur and her husband Tyler Gibbons, who form the folk duo Red Heart the Ticker, the family inheritance consists of an old house and lots of songs — both gifts from MacArthur's late grandmother, Margaret.

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8:00 am
Sat January 7, 2012

Ron Paul Touts Libertarianism In 'Live Free' State

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

And Texas Congressman Ron Paul took a break from the campaign trail following his third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, but today he is back in New Hampshire. He'll take part in tonight's debate with the other Republican candidates for president. Yesterday, Dr. Paul addressed an enthusiastic crowd of supporters in an airplane hangar in Nashua and took particular aim at one of his competitors, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

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8:00 am
Sat January 7, 2012

More Than Finance Ahead For New Consumer Chief

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

President Obama may have riled Republicans with his recess appointment of Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but there's bipartisan agreement on Mr. Cordray's qualifications. He served as Ohio's attorney general. Before that, he was Ohio state treasurer. For more, we're joined by our friend from the business world, New York Times op-ed columnist Joe Nocera. Joe, thanks for being with us.

JOE NOCERA: Thanks for having me, Scott.

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