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'Weekend Edition's' Taste Of Summer
4:51 am
Sun August 12, 2012

Summer Wine: Look For Light, Bright And Affordable

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Originally published on Sun August 12, 2012 8:40 am

Before the summer slips away, we raise a glass to hot August nights — and their perfect wine pairings. A good summer wine will be "light, bright and affordable," Leslie Sbrocco, author of The Simple and Savvy Wine Guide, tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer.

Whether you're on the beach, on the go or at the grill, Sbrocco offers recommendations for affordable reds and whites under $25.

When You're On The Go ...

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Americandy: Sweet Land Of Liberty
4:51 am
Sun August 12, 2012

Chukar Cherries Offers A Year-Round Taste Of Summer

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Chukar Cherries uses 250,000 pounds of cherries annually in its candies and other treats. The company dries them all over just a few weeks each summer.
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Lupe Lopez ensures a batch of Chukar's Cabernet Cherries are evenly coated with chocolate.
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Farm-fresh Rainier cherries get sorted before they're dried for candy and other treats.
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A batch of cabernet cherries are evenly coated with chocolate at the Chukar Cherries facility in Prosser, Wash.
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Originally published on Sun August 12, 2012 11:01 pm

Over the course of just a few sun-soaked weeks every summer, Chukar Cherries in central Washington state dries 250,000 pounds of fresh cherries.

"It's almost like going into your mom's kitchen and she's just taken a cherry pie out of the oven," says co-owner J.T. Montgomery. "A little bit like that."

Not surprisingly, the dried fruit goes into lots of Chukar Cherries' products, including the company's most popular: chewy, semi-dried cherries, rolled in oval nuggets of chocolate.

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Sunday Puzzle
11:54 pm
Sat August 11, 2012

In The End, There Will Be Chemistry

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Originally published on Sun August 12, 2012 8:40 am

On-air challenge: You are given the ends of the names of three things that are all in the same category. You name the category. For example, "fur," "dine" and "sten" are all ends of chemical elements (sulfur, iodine, tungsten).

Last week's challenge, from listener Annie Haggenmiller of Chimacum, Wash.: Take the name of a well-known U.S. city in four syllables. The first and last syllables together name a musical instrument, and the two interior syllables name a religious official. What is the city?

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Pop Culture
2:59 pm
Sat August 11, 2012

Misadventures In Reporting: My Brush With Bieber

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Justin Bieber was raised in Stratford, Ontario. When he returned to the town and played at his old busking spot outside the Avon Theatre, NPR's Bob Mondello was sitting six blocks away, oblivious.
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Justin Bieber was raised in Stratford, Ontario. When he returned to the town and played at his old busking spot outside the Avon Theatre, NPR's Bob Mondello was six blocks away, oblivious.
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Books
1:36 pm
Sat August 11, 2012

Batman's Biggest Secret (No, It's Not Bruce Wayne)

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Bill Finger (left) helped create the Batman we know today, including his iconic costume, his tragic backstory, and many of his adversaries.
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Originally published on Mon August 13, 2012 3:41 pm

Batman has many secrets — the best-known one, of course, being his millionaire alter ego, Bruce Wayne. But that may not be the Dark Knight's biggest secret.

Since the 1930s, only one man has been given credit for creating the caped crusader and his home city of Gotham. Bob Kane's name appears in the credits of all the movies, the campy TV show and the associated merchandise, from video games and action figures to sheets and underwear.

But what if Bob Kane didn't do it all by himself?

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