May 22, 2013 — Also: Eric Garcetti wins the Los Angeles mayoral race; suburbs in Stockholm experience a third night of rioting; Iran won't let one of its modern founders run for president; and you're probably mispronouncing "GIF".
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May 22, 2013 — Officials think they've found all the survivors, and victims, of the massive tornado that devastated the community of Moore. The official death toll stands at 24. More than 230 people are said to have been injured.
May 21, 2013 — Sens. Tom Coburn and James Inhofe have become the faces of pushback on federal emergency spending. Now the deadly and devastating tornado in their home state has put them in an awkward position.
May 21, 2013 — Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division dealing with nonprofits seeking tax-exempt status, will not testify on Wednesday despite a congressional subpoena, her attorney says. She is accused of closely scrutinizing conservative groups that sought tax-exempt status.
May 22, 2013 — The former congressman's career appeared to be over when he resigned in 2011 because of an extramarital sexting scandal and his lies about it. Now, he tells voters, "I've made some big mistakes. ... I hope I get a second chance to work for you." The Democratic primary is set for Sept. 10.
May 22, 2013 — Also: shameless book blurbs; new plays from Ayad Ahktar; and a first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone draws a record price at auction.
Top Stories: Oklahoma Recovery; Weiner For NYC Mayor?
May 22, 2013 — Also: Eric Garcetti wins the Los Angeles mayoral race; suburbs in Stockholm experience a third night of rioting; Iran won't let one of its modern founders run for president; and you're probably mispronouncing "GIF".Good morning, here are our early stories:
— In Oklahoma, Rescue Efforts Give Way To Recovery.
— Anthony Weiner Jumps Into Race To Be NYC Mayor.
And here are more early headlines:
Garcetti Wins L.A. Mayor's Race. (Los Angeles Times)
Third Night Of Rioting Spreads In Stockholm Suburbs. (Wall Street Journal)
Kerry In Jordan To Promote International Conference On Syria. (Bloomberg)
Iran Blocks Rafsanjani, Founder Of The Islamic State, From Presidential Bid. (Guardian)
North Korea Sends Special Envoy To China. (VOA)
Japanese Climber Aims To Become Oldest Person To Ascend Mt. Everest. (Washington Post)
Fla. Houses Next To Deadly Sinkhole To Be Razed. (Tampa Bay Times)
You're Pronouncing "GIF" Wrongly, Says Its Inventor. (New York Times)
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Jherek Bischoff in his home studio. (Q2 Music)
Jherek Bischoff On Q2 Music's 'Spaces'
by Kim Nowacki
May 22, 2013 (Q2) — The young composer has worked with David Byrne, Caetano Veloso and Amanda Palmer. But before all that, Bischoff spent his childhood living on a tiny sailboat. Take a video tour of his old bedroom -- and the place where he currently makes his beguiling blend of rock, pop and classical music.See this
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The latest episode of Q2 Spaces takes us to Washington state's Puget Sound and the small sailboat where musician, composer and producer Jherek Bischoff was raised — and to his Seattle apartment, where he surrounds himself with instruments and not much else.
"I've always worked with very little, but didn't let that stop me from trying to make big things. A lot of that has to do with just not having the opportunity to have much stuff," says Bischoff, who lived with his parents and older brother on a sailboat just 12 feet at its widest and 37 feet from bow to stern.
There is a delightful juxtaposition between Bischoff's minimalist upbringing and home life and his lush, orchestrated music, which he builds one voice at a time. For his most recent album Composed, Bischoff traveled to each musician's home, recorded each individually and then put all the pieces together on his laptop.
"That's about as minimal as you can go," Bischoff says with a laugh.
Bischoff has worked with a wide range of musicians and bands, including experimental pop group The Dead Science, the dark rock project Xiu Xiu, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer. In 2012, he and the Wordless Music Orchestra performed a sold-out concert to open the Ecstatic Music Festival; this coming weekend, he'll perform at the Pacific Northwest's Sasquatch! Music Festival at the Gorge Amphitheater.
"To get the chance to play chamber music in this environment is really exciting," says Bischoff, who'll perform along with a string quartet, clarinet, bass and two percussionists (one is his older brother, Korum Bischoff). "We will be playing a mixture of stuff from Composed and some newer work, some of which I debuted at Lincoln Center with yMusic Ensemble late last year. One of my goals is to keep bringing chamber music to different venues. Coming from a rock background, I often forget that playing this kind of music in a rock club or rock festival is strange. I just feel like I am playing in a band, whether I am with an orchestra or a rock band."
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- Video: Kim Nowacki
- Music: Tracks from Jherek Bischoff's Scores: Composed Instrumentals appear courtesy of Brassland
- Special Thanks: Erica Farnsworth, Matt Beyer
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Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., in June 2011 -- at the height of the sexting scandal that led to his resignation from Congress. (EPA /Landov)
Anthony Weiner Jumps Into Race To Be NYC Mayor
by Mark Memmott
May 22, 2013 (Q2) — The former congressman's career appeared to be over when he resigned in 2011 because of an extramarital sexting scandal and his lies about it. Now, he tells voters, "I've made some big mistakes. ... I hope I get a second chance to work for you." The Democratic primary is set for Sept. 10.Former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose career appeared to famously flame out in 2011 when he resigned from Congress because of an extramarital sexting scandal and his lying about what he'd done, has now officially jumped back into politics.
In a new video, the Democrat confirmed Wednesday that he's getting into this year's race to succeed New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I).
"Look, I've made some big mistakes and I know I let a lot of people down," Weiner says in the video. "But I've also learned some tough lessons."
"I hope I get a second chance to work for you," Weiner adds.
His wife, former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, says to New Yorkers that "we love this city and no one will work harder to make it better than Anthony."
The video opens with Weiner, Abedin and their infant son in what appears to be the kitchen of their home.
Speculation about Weiner's comeback plan heated up in April, as we reported, when a profile in The New York Times Magazine made it clear that the former congressman was "eyeing the mayor's race."
As The Associated Press reports, the 48-year-old Weiner "is jumping into a crowded field for September's primary." But, he's also "arriving with some significant advantages, including a $4.8 million campaign war chest, the possibility of more than $1 million more in public matching money, polls showing him ahead of all but one other Democrat — and no end of name recognition."
According to Politico, "a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday morning found City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the longtime front-runner, drawing 25 percent of the vote to Weiner's 15 percent in the multi-candidate Democratic primary. Twenty-seven percent of Democratic primary voters were undecided. Nearly half the city's voters said Weiner shouldn't run for mayor, including 52 percent of women and 44 percent of Democrats."
The contenders for the Republican nomination, the AP writes, "include billionaire businessman John Catsimatidis, former Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joseph Lhota and homelessness-aid organization head George McDonald."
The primary is set for Sept. 10.
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Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., in June 2011 -- at the height of the sexting scandal that led to his resignation from Congress. (EPA /Landov)
Drummer Waits For Gas, Uses Time Along Highway To Practice
May 22, 2013 (Morning Edition / Q2) — Out of gas, a drummer in Baltimore, Md., pulled off onto the side of the interstate to wait for help. While waiting, he pulled out his drum kit and practiced. The highway department came with some gas.Missing some content? Check the source: NPR
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At her desk in the study of her Philadelphia townhouse in 1967, Pearl Buck looks at a bound volume of the magazine Asia from 1925 that contained her first published work. (AP)
Book News: Newly Found Pearl Buck Novel To Be Published This Fall
by Annalisa Quinn
May 22, 2013 (Q2) — Also: shameless book blurbs; new plays from Ayad Ahktar; and a first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone draws a record price at auction.See this
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The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- A never-before-seen novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl Buck that was discovered in a Texas storage unit will be published in October. Publisher Open Road Integrated Media describes the book, titled The Eternal Wonder, as "the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax, an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris and on a mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea," according to The New York Times. The newspaper reports that Buck "is believed to have completed the manuscript for the book ... shortly before she died of cancer in 1973, said her son Edgar S. Walsh, who manages her literary estate."
- Mark Ford writes about Vladimir Nabokov and his greatest creation, Humbert Humbert, for The New York Review of Books: "The golden-tongued Humbert, one must always remember, is possibly the greatest rhetorician since Milton's equally persuasive and dangerous Satan."
- At first glance, you might think that The Washington Post actually liked Martin Amis' widely-detested novel Lionel Asbo. The front cover boasts a Post blurb stating: "Amis is a force unto himself. ... There is, quite simply, no one else like him." But as Ron Charles points out, the newspaper eviscerated Lionel Asbo, and the blurb comes from a review of another Amis book that The Post reviewed 23 years ago. There's something almost impressive about that level of shamelessness.
- Ayad Akhtar, who won the Pulitzer Prize for drama this year, is publishing three new plays with Little Brown, publisher Reagan Arthur announced Monday. (Check out Akhtar's essay for NPR Books about the literature of faith in America.)
- The Paris Review excerpts from Martin McLaughlin's new translation of the letters of Italo Calvino: "Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious and at the slightest flattery I immediately start to strut like a turkey."
- A first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone hand-annotated and illustrated by J.K. Rowling sold for a spectacular $227,421 at Sotheby's on Tuesday, in an auction to benefit the free-speech group English PEN. As we noted Monday, Rowling's marginalia explain the origins of Quidditch (a fight with her boyfriend) and reveal the original mascot of Hufflepuff House (a bear, instead of a decidedly non-menacing badger).
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