Now Playing

Loading streams...

Podcasts & RSS Feeds

Morning EditionRSS
All ContentRSS
View all podcasts & RSS feeds

Morning Edition

Monday - Friday, 4:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. on KUOW
Steve Inskeep, Renee Montagne

Every weekday for over three decades, NPR's Morning Edition has taken listeners around the country and the world with two hours of multi–faceted stories and commentaries that inform, challenge and occasionally amuse. Morning Edition is the most listened–to news radio program in the country.

Composer ID: 
5182a719e1c89ec2617cc323|5182a70fe1c89ec2617cc30a

Pages

Sports
12:44 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Deflections: The Unofficial Stat That Measures Success

Credit Andy Lyons / Getty Images
Head coach Rick Pitino of the Louisville Cardinals is adamant about recording his team's deflections. It seems to be paying off: The Cardinals have been doing well during the NCAA tournament.
Share
E-mail
By

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 9:08 am

The Louisville Cardinals are among the teams dominating at this year's men's Division 1 NCAA basketball tournament, which resumes Thursday night. The team credits harassing, active defense for its wins.

But there's something else at work, too: deflections. The team puts a lot of stock in them, though deflections aren't an officially tracked statistic.

Read more
The Salt
12:43 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Reviving The Spirit And Schmaltz Of The Jewish Deli

Next imagePrevious image
Credit Daniel M.N. Turner / NPR
Nick Wiseman, partner at DGS Delicatessen, inspects the kitchen as an employee prepares pastrami sandwiches for lunch in Washington, D.C.
Credit Daniel M.N. Turner / NPR
Barry Koslow, DGS executive chef, demonstrates the proper technique for rolling a matzo ball. His take on traditional matzo ball soup for Passover includes roasted bone marrow.
Credit Daniel M.N. Turner / NPR
Just before lunchtime, people line up outside DGS Delicatessen on Connecticut Avenue in D.C.'s Dupont Circle. It's been open for just four months, and some customers say the nation's capital was overdue for a Jewish delicatessen.
Credit Daniel M.N. Turner / NPR
Barry Koslow worked as a chef cooking other cuisines before turning his talents to his cultural roots.
Credit Daniel M.N. Turner / NPR
Koslow shows Morning Edition host David Greene how to boil the rolled matzo balls. The chef says he has rolled hundreds of these starchy orbs each day during Passover.
Credit Daniel M.N. Turner / NPR
A selection of DGS' pickled offerings, including carrots, mushrooms and egg. DGS makes all of its pickled and smoked offerings in-house.
Credit Daniel M.N. Turner / NPR
"There's this whole movement of people wanting to make everything from scratch," Koslow says. Restaurant workers prepare their own mustard by the gallon. A batch this size is about enough to last through the weekend crowds.
Credit Daniel M.N. Turner / NPR
DGS' signature pastrami sandwiches and pickles.
Credit Daniel M.N. Turner / NPR
The kitchen and front seating at DGS during lunch.
Credit Daniel M.N. Turner / NPR
An earlier generation of deli owners, and relatives of the DGS partners, keeps watch over a to-go bag at the restaurant's walk-up counter.
Credit Daniel M.N. Turner / NPR
Koslow grabs ingredients from the walk-in refrigerator that houses all of the deli's pickled vegetables and smoked meat. "We'll pickle anything," he says.
Credit Daniel M.N. Turner / NPR
The finished matzo ball soup is a centerpiece of DGS' Passover meal.
Credit Daniel M.N. Turner / NPR
Nick Wiseman, partner at DGS Delicatessen, inspects the kitchen as an employee prepares pastrami sandwiches for lunch.
Credit Daniel M.N. Turner / NPR
DGS' signature pastrami sandwiches and pickles.
Credit Daniel M.N. Turner / NPR
Barry Koslow, chef of DGS Delicatessen, demonstrates the proper technique for rolling a matzo ball. He has updated the traditional Passover meal with ingredients such as bone marrow.
Share
E-mail
By Padmananda Rama

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 7:55 am

  • Hear David Greene's Story

On a recent morning, just south of Washington, D.C.'s Dupont Circle, about a dozen people are lined up outside a restaurant waiting for its lunchtime opening.

Jon and Ralph Rosenbaum are at the front of the line and are the first to be greeted by DGS Delicatessen general manager Brian Zipin, who leads them down a white tile hallway and seats them at a small table against a brick-exposed wall.

Read more
The Record
12:42 am
Thu March 28, 2013

The Many Sounds Of 1993 Bay Area Rap

Credit Couresy of Zomba Recording
A still from the video for E-40's 1993 song "Practice Looking Hard," in which rappers like The Coup's Boots Riley (second from right) and Tupac (not pictured) also appeared.
Share
E-mail
By editor

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 5:27 pm

Read more
Food
4:25 am
Wed March 27, 2013

Mount Vernon Visitors Can Sip History

Share
E-mail
By editor

A batch of George Washington's straight rye whiskey is being made in a reconstruction of his old distillery. Historians who have tasted it say it's very bad rye whiskey.

Europe
4:15 am
Wed March 27, 2013

Winter Olympic Organizers Worry About Snow Shortage

Share
E-mail
By editor

In Russia, they've started stockpiling snow for 2014 after an unusually warm winter in the city of Sochi. The snow is being stored high up in the mountains, and coated with a "special thermo seal" to prevent it from melting.

Business
1:40 am
Wed March 27, 2013

T-Mobile: Adds iPhone Ditches 2-Year Contracts

Share
E-mail
By

Originally published on Wed March 27, 2013 3:05 am

T-Mobile announced Tuesday that it's eliminating its two-year contracts in an effort to make its plans more transparent. Subscribers can pay off their phones in two years, and the cost of their plans will go down. T-Mobile is currently the No. 4 carrier.

Sports
1:40 am
Wed March 27, 2013

U.S. Men's Soccer Team Ties With Mexico

Share
E-mail
By

Originally published on Wed March 27, 2013 2:56 am

Brad Guzan swatted away shot after shot and the U.S. team hung on for a 0-0 draw with Mexico Tuesday night. The U.S. earned only its second point in a World Cup qualifier at Azteca Stadium.

Business
1:40 am
Wed March 27, 2013

Analyzing T-Mobile's Price Strategy

Share
E-mail
By editor

Originally published on Wed March 27, 2013 3:38 am

The No. 4 mobile phone carrier is making changes that it hopes will draw more customers to it. To find out more about T-mobile's new pricing strategy, David Greene talks to Rich Jaroslovsky, the technology commentator for Bloomberg News.

All Tech Considered
12:35 am
Wed March 27, 2013

Solar-Powered Plane Uses Its Lightness To Fly In The Dark

Credit Courtesy of Solar Impulse
The Solar Impulse, a solar-powered plane, flies over Switzerland. The makers will be journeying across the U.S. this spring, hoping the flight helps challenge assumptions about what solar technology can do.
Share
E-mail
By Steve Henn

Originally published on Wed March 27, 2013 4:54 am

Read more
Media
12:34 am
Wed March 27, 2013

Looking For 'Oxygen,' Small Papers Erect Digital Paywalls

Credit Ashley Gross for NPR
In Long Beach, Wash., Chinook Observer editor and publisher Matt Winters has overseen his paper's transition to the Internet and, more recently, to a pay wall.
Share
E-mail
By

Originally published on Wed March 27, 2013 5:38 am

The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle recently said they will start charging readers for online content, joining big papers like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Some large papers have made it work because they offer a lot of unique content.

Read more

Pages