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  • 'Tuesdays With Dorie': A Community In The Kitchen
    In 2008, an online community of bakers vowed to bake one recipe a week from Dorie Greenspan's cookbook Baking: From My Home to Yours. Four years and 370 recipes later, the enthusiastic cooks finished baking all of the galettes and cobblers in December 2011.
  • Jeremy Levinson, (l) a lawyer to the recall committees, talks about the petitions as Mike Tate (c) Wisconsin Democratic Party chair listens, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012.
    Wisconsin Democrats Exceed Million-Signature Mark For Walker Recall
    How badly do Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's opponents want him out of office? So badly they collected significantly more signatures than they needed to ensure a recall election for the governor. We're talking more than a million signatures, according to the Democrats who, to meet the Tuesday deadline, were hauling boxes of documents to the state office responsible for reviewing them.
  • The search for survivors of the Costa Concordia disaster continues Thursday in Giglio Porto, Italy. At least 11 people were killed after the vessel ran aground last week. More than 20 people are still missing.
    PHOTOS: Images From The Disaster
    Images from Italian luxury cruise ship accident.
  • Nobuo Uematsu plays keyboard with Earthbound Papas, a rock band made up of video-game soundtrack composers.
    From Mega Man To Final Fantasy, Live Video Game Music
    Low-tech 8-bit and 16-bit game systems inspire most of MAGFest's assortment of live cover bands.
  • The luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia leans on its side after running aground on the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. One maritime workers union called the disaster a "wake-up call" highlighting long-standing safety concerns and what it sees as lax regulation.
    Cruise Ship Disaster Puts Focus On Safety Concerns
    Some of the survivors of last week's shipwreck off the Italian coast described the rescue effort as chaotic and disorganized. A maritime workers union called the disaster a "wake-up call" highlighting long-standing safety concerns — like ships getting too large to evacuate quickly — and lax regulation.
  • France's 35-hour work week has resulted in some workers accumulating vast amounts of overtime that they are required to use this year. The problem is particularly acute at some hospitals. Here a woman speaks with a doctor at the Conception Hospital in Marseille on Tuesday.
    French Dilemma: How To Burn Off All That Overtime?
    With a 35-hour work week, many in France have accumulated vast quantities of overtime that they are now required to use this year. It poses a big problem for hospitals.
  • People gather to protest against Hungary's new constitution outside the Opera House in Budapest on Jan. 2. Critics say the document curbs democracy.
    Hungary Faces EU Action Over New Constitution
    Critics accuse the prime minister and his conservative Fidesz party of pushing Hungary backward. The European Union says aspects of the country's new constitution violate EU law and treaties. But a government spokesman says the ruling party is merely fulfilling its election mandate.
  • Calif. Gov. Brown's Speech To Outline More Cuts
    California Gov. Jerry Brown gives his State of the State address Wednesday, and things aren't going well in the state financially speaking. Brown has already made huge cuts in government, and faces even more if voters do not back his tax increase ballot measure.
  • Local Government and Less Money
    By Tom Grahamhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wmra/local-wmra-801988.mp3Charlottesville, VA – Virginia's Governor is due to release a…
  • Ten Cents a Dance
    By Nancy Kinghttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wmra/local-wmra-806277.mp3Charlottesville, VA – President-elect Barrack Obama is talking…
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