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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: 'The Taste' premiere, Vampire Weekend's new album gets a release date and the 'Ace of Cakes' does the Inaugural Ball
The food blogosphere is all abuzz about Duff Goldman's inauguration cake. Here's a story from Bon Appetit and NPR.
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Currently Listing: Disney builds an 8-bit street, the NHL apologizes and a local cookie gets some national attention
Disney built an entire 8-bit street in London to promote Wreck-It Ralph. And yes, it's as awesome as you'd think.
The NHL apologized to its fans for its latest work stoppage in a full-page ad in several newspapers across the country, including the Boston Globe.
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Currently ... Reading: 'I Suck at Girls,' by Justin Halpern, the right mix of sweet, sour

I have to be honest, most of what I want to say about author and Twitter-lebrity Justin Halpern’s latest book, “I Suck at Girls,” can’t be printed in this newspaper.
This is a vulgar book. A very vulgar book.
In fact, I would venture to say that a magic four-letter word appears more times in this short 192-page memoir than the last three Tarantino movies combined.
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Currently Listing: A controversial Top Chef, ordering craft beer and the truth about quinoa
If you're anything like me, you were shocked by last night's Top Chef. How controversial was the judges' decision? Well, Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons took to their blogs to discuss the winners and losers of Restaurant Wars.
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The great burden of being a Coldplay fan
I don’t consider my love of Coldplay to be a guilty pleasure, though many others might.
After all, it’s been nearly eight years since a single joke in Judd Apatow’s “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” made being a fan of this massively popular British quartet seem about as cool as shopping at Walmart or as manly as having a ticket stub from Lilith Fair.
You know the joke I’m referring to. Let’s not revisit it.
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Currently Listing: The country's best beer bars, Jennifer Lawrence turns down James Lipton and a real-life game of Mario Kart
The New York Times has a great piece on young people and their love of good food they probably can't afford. The story includes this gem of a sentence:
It surely comforts modern parents who have spent fortunes educating their children to know that these children are spending money on pork belly and not, for instance, cocaine.
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Currently Listing: Rory and Tiger team up, barrel-aged hot sauces and some high praise for Sean Brock
Bon Appetit has four tips on how to braise anything.
Cool Material has a list of 11 things its bloggers wanted to steal from the recently-concluded 2013 Consumer Electronics Show.
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Currently Listing: My favorite Golden Globes moment, armadillos and a Parris Island proposal
Food pros dish on how they stay so thin.
A significant tax hike could be on the way for restaurants that make more than $450,000, according to the Nation's Restaurant News.
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Currently Listing: Deep-fried Coke, the end of Grauman's Chinese Theatre and Bob Knight struggles with the shot clock
Conan O'Brien is taking his show to Atlanta in early April.
Could a live-action Star Wars TV show be in the works?
A deep-fried Coke recipe? Yeah, you read that right.
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Currently ... Downloading: An app food lovers can't live without
If you own a smartphone or tablet, you know the moment I’m about to describe.
You’re browsing the app store or see a blog post about new or must-have apps when one piques your interest.
You download the app and find something you can’t believe you were able to live without. You’re much stronger than you thought.
I had this revelatory moment recently upon downloading the latest version of Evernote Food for the iPad.
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