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  • For the past 20 years, amateur cook Roger Mummert has run the multicultural Latke Festival on Long Island. This year's cooking-contest entries included Mexi-latkes, pesto latkes and Thai latkes with lemongrass, among other gourmet treats. NPR's Robert Smith reports.
  • It's a slow week on the Billboard charts, but a few albums and singles are still having a huge impact, including Drake's new single, "What Did I Miss?," and the soundtrack to the Netflix original movie KPop Demon Hunters.
  • I’m sure most readers of my column are well aware of my take on catch and release. I’m all about the conservation of our fish and game but have absolutely no problem with the practice of releasing the fish I need for dinner into a hot cast iron skillet filled with cooking oil...
  • Hi, I’m Marcy McKay from Amarillo, author of the award-winning novel, Pennies from Burger Heaven. I’m excited to be a Radio Reader for High Plains Public Radio’s Book Club. The book I chose for In Touch with The World was I Am Malala, by Malala Yousufzai. She’s the girl who stood up for education in Pakistan and was shot by the Taliban in 2012 when she was just 15 years old.
  • I’m Kathleen Holt, Coordinator of the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. The following Radio Readers BookByte is a repeat of one originally aired in 2017 and is offered in memory of its author Thomas F. Pecore (Pay-corE) Weso who died July 14, 2023, in Healdsburg, California.
  • Hello from Amarillo, TX! This is Lauren Pronger back again with another Radio Readers BookByte about Shing Yin Khor’s graphic novel The American Dream? for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. So, we know from my previous BookBytes and the novel’s blurb that Khor undertook a Route 66 road trip to better understand the mythos of America and how they, as a queer immigrant, might fit into it.
  • Monday's Powerball drawing was delayed after one participating lottery needed more time to carry out security procedures. The jackpot had ballooned over three months without a winner.
  • "The ceiling heights were 4.5 feet to 6 feet tall on each level, depending on where you were standing," says a spokesperson for the New York City Department of Buildings.
  • A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows that Americans' support for President-elect Donald Trump's top priorities is split, despite his claims of a mandate for his agenda.
  • The number of people seeking jobless benefits shot up again last week, as 6.6 million more of the unemployed filed first-time claims. Much of the economy has shut down, leaving millions out of work.
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