The next big thing is redefining love: Love is never having to say you're sorry... but managing to convince the Chinese government that you have. On our show, it's walking from the dining room of the restaurant, through the swinging doors and into the kitchen to become ... Super Chef! It's a bouzouki fit for heavy metal hair bands and a play from the back of a cab -- where else? Also find out the winner of the Caption Contest.

What's the next big thing?
Elizabeth Sabo of Village Tax Service
Lynn Bundessen, religion scholar and author
Chris Wydman, assistant archivist of Greene County in Xenia, OH

When the minute hand hits 12...
... that arugula better be ready. Host Dean Olsher tries multi-tasking with Morgen Jacobson, chef and owner of Quince, a 42-seat restaurant on West 54th Street. The floodgates open, hell breaks loose ... and it's just another day on deadline. Produced by Emily Botein.

It's a dirty science
Masters of stains, chemists of soap -- Jule Gardner looks at laundry in a whole new way at the Unilever Institute in Edgewater, N.J.

The Greek blues
It's rembetika. It's gangsters and love and living on the edge. It's Maryo and the Tambourlika Ensemble in advance of the World Music Institute's Greek music festival. This year, it's at Town Hall, April 27-29. Go ahead and dance.

A bouzouki by any other name...
...wouldn't be an invention by luthier Dino Bersis, owner of Dio Dinos Handcrafted Musical Instruments in Astoria, Queens. It's a rock organ, a clarinet, a xylophone. Dean Olsher gets a demo. Produced by Jule Gardner.

Before we leave Queens
Let's take a walk around. A sound portrait produced by Eileen Delahunty.

Caption Contest
Five sounds find an author. Judge Jesse Green comes back with a winner.

Our Books, Our Selves
Writer Meg Wolitzer just can't let go. Produced by Curtis Fox.

Manhattan Monologues
A play from the back of a cab by Lucy Grealy. Featuring Kate Gleason as the writer, E.J. Rodriguez at the squeegee man, Michael Klein as the cop and Roy Nathanson as the cabbie. Grealy's story appears in her most recent book, "As Seen on TV: Provocations."

And speaking of Roy
Our own Jazz Passenger is back next week in a play of his own. And you don't want to miss it.

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