Oct 30th, 2008 · The leaves are falling — and food writer Nigella Lawson is ready to share some of her favorite autumn recipes. With ingredients like butternut squash, pears and chestnut puree, many of the flavors are tart but mellow, with an earthy sweetness.
Oct 3rd, 2008 · As the first African-American attorney in Selma, Ala., J.L. Chestnut Jr. campaigned to free jailed Civil Rights activists in the 1960s — an effort he detailed in his autobiography, Black In Selma. Chestnut died of kidney failure on Sept. 30; he was 77.
Sep 4th, 2008 · Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and his Afro-Cuban band show some Miami style and pianist Cyrus Chestnut sets the direction for his show with the title, "Spirituals to Swing." JazzSet mixes these two concerts from January 2008 from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Nov 27th, 2007 · The hundred-plus-year-old chestnut tree which stands just outside of the Amsterdam building where Anne Frank once lived has been granted a reprieve; it had been slated to be cut down Wednesday morning. But now there a new questions about its fate.
Nov 14th, 2007 · News worth an honorable mention: The tree Anne Frank loved is too diseased to be saved, plus a naturalist who hunts rhinos and a Congressional hearing over the true color of meat.
Oct 7th, 2007 · Jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut and Elvis Presley aren't a likely pairing: Chestnut is one of the top pianists of a generation born many years after songs like "Love Me Tender" made Presley the king of rock 'n' roll. Hear an interview and performance from Studio 4A.
Nov 15th, 2006 · The chestnut tree made famous by diarist Anne Frank, who gazed out on it from her hideaway in an attic in Amsterdam, is to be cut down. The tree is in very poor condition, due to an aggressive fungus. We hear about the tree from Patricia Bosboom of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.
Aug 12th, 2006 · On Remember Me, Bill Malone and Rod Moag pay tribute to the Bailes Brothers. The International Bluegrass Music Association has taken note of the self-produced CD.