All Things Considered
Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009
- A listing of today's stories will be posted at approx. 4:00 p.m. ET on weekdays and 5:00 p.m. ET on weekends
- Audio for today's show will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET
Listen to Friday's show · Jan. 16, 2009
Gifts For The Gods: Food For The Chinese New Year
A tradition for the Chinese New Year is to leave out food for the kitchen god to ensure a prosperous year. Food writer Grace Young talks about the reasons for putting food on the altar —and some of the recipes her family cooks up, like fried garlic lettuce. ()
Title Inflation: How Hollywood Watches Our Wallets
To our critic's credit, he's found a movie-title trend: They track our feelings about high finance. ()
A B.I.G. Life Writ Large In 'Notorious'
Biggie Smalls gets the big-screen treatment in George Tillman Jr.'s biography of the rapper.Web Extra:Hear Biggie's Music ()
- Artist:
- Richard Goode
- Composer:
- Mozart
- CD Title:
- Mozart
- Label:
- Nonesuch
- Catalog Number:
- 79831
- Artist:
- Bill Frisell
- Composer:
- Frisell
- CD Title:
- Gone, Just Like a Train
- Label:
- Nonesuch
- Catalog Number:
- 79479
- "Lookout for Hope"
- CD: Gone, Just Like a Train
- Artist: Bill Frisell
- Label: Nonesuch
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How?
- Artist:
- THE YOCKAMO ALL-STARS
- CD Title:
- DEW DROP OUT
- Label:
- Rykodisc
- Catalog Number:
- HNCD 1422
- Artist:
- Christopher O'Riley
- Composer:
- Yorke/Greenwood/Gre
- CD Title:
- True Love Waits: O'Riley Plays Radiohead
- Label:
- Odessey
- Catalog Number:
- 87321
- "I Can't"
- CD: True Love Waits: O'Riley Plays Radiohead
- Artist: Christopher O'Riley
- Label: Odessey
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How?
- Artist:
- Cantori Moderni Di Alessandroni
- Composer:
- Morricone
- CD Title:
- The Ennio Morricone Anthology: A Fistful of Film Music
- Label:
- Rhino
- Catalog Number:
- 71858
- "Theme from a Fistful of Dollars"
- CD: The Ennio Morricone Anthology: A Fistful of Film Music
- Artist: Ennio Morricone
- Label: Rhino
- Released: 2008
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How?- Artist:
- The Bad Plus
- CD Title:
- For All I Care
- Label:
- Emarcy
- Catalog Number:
- 1782164
- "Variation d'Apollon"
- CD: For All I Care
- Artist: The Bad Plus
- Label: Emarcy
- Released: 2008
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How?
- Artist:
- Twelve Girls Band
- Composer:
- Jianfeng
- CD Title:
- Shanghai
- Label:
- Manhattan
- Catalog Number:
- 78957
- "Shining Energy"
- CD: Shanghai
- Artist: 12 Girls Band
- Label: Manhattan
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How?- Artist:
- Booker T. & the MG's
- Composer:
- Jones/Cropper/Stein
- CD Title:
- The R&B Box: 30 Years of Rhythm & Blues
- Label:
- Rhino/WEA
- Catalog Number:
- 71806
- "Green Onions"
- CD: The R&B Box: 30 Years of Rhythm & Blues
- Artist: Various Artists
- Label: Rhino/WEA
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How?
- Artist:
- E.s.t.
- Composer:
- E.s.t.
- CD Title:
- Seven Days of Falling
- Label:
- 215 Records
- Catalog Number:
- 215-2007
- "Believe Beleft Below"
- CD: Seven Days of Falling
- Artist: E.s.t.
- Label: 215 Records
- Released: 2004
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How?- Artist:
- Calexico
- Composer:
- Burns/Convertino
- CD Title:
- Carried to Dust
- Label:
- Quarterstick
- Catalog Number:
- 20108
- "Gatillo (Trigger Revisited)"
- CD: Carried to Dust
- Artist: Calexico
- Label: Quarterstick
- Released: 2008
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How?
- Artist:
- Hot Club San Francisco
- CD Title:
- ATC Themes
- Artist:
- Lewis & Clarke
- CD Title:
- Bare Bones and Branches [Summersteps]
- Label:
- Summersteps
- Catalog Number:
- 0019
- Artist:
- Tony Furtado
- Composer:
- Lennon and Mccartney
- CD Title:
- WITHIN REACH
- Label:
- Rounder
- Catalog Number:
- ROUNDER CD 0290
- Artist:
- Bruce Kaphan
- Composer:
- Kaphan
- CD Title:
- Slider: Ambient Excursions For Pedal Steel Guitar
- Label:
- Hearts of Space
- Catalog Number:
- 114042
- Web site
- "High Desert"
- CD: Slider: Ambient Excursions For Pedal Steel Guitar
- Artist: Bruce Kaphan
- Label: Hearts of Space
- Visit web site »
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How?
- Artist:
- Yo-Yo Ma
- CD Title:
- Essential Yo-Yo Ma
- Label:
- Legacy
- Catalog Number:
- 093927
- "Anything Goes"
- CD: Essential Yo-Yo Ma
- Artist: Yo-Yo Ma
- Label: Legacy
- Released: 2005
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How?
- Artist:
- Please Check Back In a Few Days
- CD Title:
- Sorry This Music Is Not In Our Database
- Label:
- Thank You
- Catalog Number:
- 0
- Artist:
- DeVotchKa
- Composer:
- Danna
- CD Title:
- Little Miss Sunshine [Original Soundtrack]
- Label:
- Lakeshore S
- Catalog Number:
- 338652
- "First Push"
- CD: Little Miss Sunshine [Original Soundtrack]
- Artist: Mychael Danna
- Label: Lakeshore S
- Released: 2006
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How?
« Previous Show | Next Show »
- Most recent show
- Past shows
- Broadcast schedule
- About the program
- Contact All Things Considered
Purchase Featured All Things Considered
- The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen
- Author: Grace Young
- CD: Notorious [Soundtrack]
- Artist: Original Soundtrack
- Label: Bad Boy
- Released: 2009
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How?
ALL TECH CONSIDERED
Join the All Thing Considered technology conversation. What are you curious about, what baffles you? Ask questions -- and get answers.
Search All Things Considered Stories
COMING UP:
January 19 · As Washington, D.C., kitchens prepare for inaugural festivities, an unusual group of chefs is taking part. They're students at a nonprofit training center teaching former felons and drug addicts how to be culinary workers.
Regular Features
Related News Feeds
Browse Topics
Services
Programs
- News/Talk Programs
- Morning Edition
- All Things Considered
- Day to Day
- Fresh Air
- News & Notes
- Talk of the Nation
- Tell Me More
- Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me
- Weekend Edition Saturday
- Weekend Edition Sunday
- Music Programs
- All Songs Considered
- From the Top
- JazzSet
- Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
- Mountain Stage
- World Cafe
- World of Opera
- more