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On today’s show: New York Times Dining Section columnist Melissa Clark shares her ideas for making a dinner from scratch after you get home from a long day at work! It’s been 25 years since Pete Rose was banned from baseball, and Sports Illustrated's Kostya Kennedy asks whether the man with the most base hits in the game’s history belongs in the Hall of Fame. AJ Mass, who’s a former Mr. Met, takes us into the sweaty world of sports mascots. And the legendary Mookie Wilson looks back at the 1986 World Series and what it was like being part of the Amazin’ Mets.

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

As the clock is ticking on the deadline for a deal for LICH’s re-development, city and state officials are losing confidence in the company that won the bid to buy the Cobble Hill hospital. Capital New York’s Dan Goldberg explains how the company was chosen, who's behind it and plan B if the deal falls through. Plus: City Council speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito; a guide to Thomas Piketty's economic tome, and the think pieces responding to it; an update on the dispute over LG’s new headquarters near the Palisades; and one linguist's push back to the idea that language shapes how we see the world…le monde…el mundo.

The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

In a live performance, singer and pianist Tori Amos previews songs from her new album. John Turturro talks about the music that fueled his new film "Fading Gigolo," co-starring Woody Allen.

On this edition of New Sounds, listen to music for voice and electronics, including the latest recording from Brooklyn-based composer Jacob Cooper, “Silver Threads.” It’s a song cycle written for soprano Mellissa Hughes, in which he employs laptop like a folk instrument.  The text of the first movement comes from a haiku by Basho, and the following five movements came from asking five contemporary poets to write their own poems in response to the Basho haiku. Listen to Cooper’s setting of the original haiku, and one with text by Tarfia Faizullah.  SEE Silver Threads release show at Le Poisson Rouge on May 7.