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Patrick Donohue is the proudest Indiana native you're likely to find. Seriously. No one is prouder to be from a state that so many people know relatively so little about than he is. Patrick is a native of Terre Haute and a graduate of the Ernie Pyle School of Journalism at Indiana University. Knowing this, you might think he’d be a huge John "Cougar" Mellencamp fan, a man considered by some to be the Hoosier State's poet laureate. But you'd be wrong. In a major way. | Email PatrickSend Patrick your story ideas and news tips. Contact him at 843-706-8152 or by email.
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Currently Listing: Waiters spread disease, Russell Westbrook is mad and a local band rocks Letterman
How awesome is Threadless' line of Toy Story tees?
Food psychologist Brian Wansink talks to Francis Lam about why we eat what we eat.
A gorgeous new photo gallery from Mike Lata's seafood emporium The Ordinary.
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Currently ... Watching: 'The Taste' part of new recipe at ABC
If shows like "Elementary" and "Wipeout" are any indication, there seems to be nothing major television networks enjoy quite as much as creating new shows based on the tried-and-tested premises of already-successful properties.
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Currently Listing: NFL star marries a 6-year-old, fish skin bacon and some love for Frogmore Stew
An unfortunately-titled ice cream social.
Fans of the short-lived Fox sitcom "Kitchen Confidential," will be happy to know Bradley Cooper is involved in another cooking-theme project.
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Lowcountry weather report calls for snow (not really ... sorry)
It was February 2010. The forecasts were calling for snow, but I was skeptical.
I was working then as our newspaper's police and military reporter in Beaufort and was assigned to cover this impending snow-pocalypse. Or blizzar-maggedon. I had a few nicknames worked out.
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Currently Listing: VW blasted for 'racist' ad, some Top Chef gossip and ESPN's Tim Tebow problem
Reservation giant Open Table is purchased Foodspotting for $10 million, according to the New York Times.
Cool Material has 8 football movies every guy should see.
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Currently Listing: Soap that smells like urinal cakes, '30 Rock' ice cream and Volunteer athletics $200 million in the hole
Soap that smells like bacon, hand soap and ... urinal cakes?
Cool Material has 15 new apps you should know.
Ben & Jerry's has a new 30 Rock flavor.
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Currently Listing: More trouble for Chris Brown, six degrees of Jeremiah Bacon and YOLO
A Brazilian clothing retailer uses footage of actual shoplifters to promote its clothes.
Charleston Magazine plays six degrees of The Macintosh's Jeremiah Bacon. Tom Cruise and President Barack Obama are in the mix.
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Currently ... Watching: Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in 'Silver Linings Playbook'

Starting in late November, I began combing the local movie listings each week, hoping against hope that director David O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook” would be playing somewhere within reasonable driving distance.
I was regularly disappointed.
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Currently Listing: Taylor Swift comes to South Carolina, the easiest way to make gnocchi and Serena Williams' ankle
Bon Appetit has what it is calling the world's easiest technique for making gnocchi.
Food fraud is up 60 percent in the U.S., according to ABC News.
A Phoenix cakemaker made a life-size Lady Gaga cake.
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Currently Listing: Stolen straws, a Subway lawsuit, 'Mad Men' returns in April
More than 70 newspapers have responded to a casting call for a new reality show about life at a small-town paper.
Sign of the times: 19-year-old Sloane Stephens upset Serena Williams at the Australian Open and immediately did this:
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