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Creepers, Golliwog, Spalding

Studio 360 - January 18, 2038 - 11:14pm
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NPR Arts & Culture - May 27, 2014 - 12:00am

The summer-movie slate looks like a typically airheaded one, from Land of the Lost to the naughty new spoof Bruno. But fear not: We found a few dramas — even some foreign weepies — to help tide you over.

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A Lost And Found 'Wonder': Pearl S. Buck's Final Novel

NPR Arts & Culture - 3 hours 47 min ago

Before her death in 1973, Pearl S. Buck wrote one final novel. But The Eternal Wonder languished in a Texas storage unit for decades until its discovery last fall.

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Transcending Hardships By Saving Others In 'Constellation'

NPR Arts & Culture - 3 hours 55 min ago

In his debut novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra takes readers to the war-torn republic of Chechnya. People disappear, informers betray and those with humanity endure great hardships.

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Job Searching While Black: What's Behind The Unemployment Gap?

NPR News - 3 hours 56 min ago

Income and wealth inequality is just about as American as baseball and apple pie. And although the economy has improved in the last few years, the unemployment rate for black Americans is about double that for whites.

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Two Songs That Led Keith Carradine From Screen To Broadway

NPR Arts & Culture - 4 hours 6 min ago

One of Keith Carradine's most famous roles in recent years was as Wild Bill Hickok on the HBO TV show Deadwood. But Carradine is also a musician, and it was a song that jump-started his career — and another that drew him to his latest Broadway role.

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Flooding Brings San Antonio To Standstill, Kills One

NPR News - 4 hours 38 min ago

In one neighborhood, 54 were people rescued. They described a water level that "swallowed up trucks and was chin-high."

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'We'll Keep Running': Thousands Complete Final Mile Of Boston Marathon

NPR News - 5 hours 16 min ago

On a cold and rainy day in Boston thousands gathered to finish what two bombs stole from them. A one-mile run traced the home-stretch of the Boston Marathon, giving spectators, runners and victims a chance at closure.

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Stunned By Military Sex Scandals, Advocates Demand Changes

NPR News - 5 hours 37 min ago

As the nation prepares to mark Memorial Day, outrage has been building on Capitol Hill and beyond over the military's failure to repair a system that has placed service members in more danger of sexual assault than of battlefield injury.

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Stunned By Military Sex Scandals, Advocates Demand Changes

NPR Politics - 5 hours 37 min ago

As the nation prepares to mark Memorial Day, outrage has been building on Capitol Hill and beyond over the military's failure to repair a system that has placed service members in more danger of sexual assault than of battlefield injury.

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Obama Forgets To Salute; Sparks Debate On Presidential Tradition

NPR Politics - 7 hours 57 min ago

The presidential salute actually breaks with military decorum and was started by Ronald Reagan in 1981.

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Obama Forgets To Salute; Sparks Debate On Presidential Tradition

NPR News - 7 hours 57 min ago

The presidential salute actually breaks with military decorum and was started by Ronald Reagan in 1981.

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Meet London's Master Architects In Jell-0

NPR Arts & Culture - 8 hours 46 min ago

London duo Sam Bompas and Harry Parr have made names for themselves with their wild, experimental food installations. From pineapple islands and banana vapors to re-creations of famous architectural monuments, their work playfully pushes the boundary of how we experience food.

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Meet London's Master Architects In Jell-0

NPR News - 8 hours 46 min ago

London duo Sam Bompas and Harry Parr have made names for themselves with their wild, experimental food installations. From pineapple islands and banana vapors to re-creations of famous architectural monuments, their work playfully pushes the boundary of how we experience food.

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Missouri Train Collision Injures 7, Collapses Overpass

NPR News - 10 hours 24 min ago

Authorities said a Union Pacific train t-boned a Burlington Northern train. After a diesel fuel leak, one of the engines caught fire but firefighters were able to extinguish it.

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One Hit Wonder? Another Anibal Sanchez No-Hit Bid Spoiled

NPR News - 11 hours 30 min ago

The Tigers' Sanchez has been here before. This is the fourth one-hitter of his career. It was also the third time the Twins' Joe Mauer broke a no-hitter in the 9th inning.

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'We Need Help Bad': 911 Calls Reveal Chaos In Tornado's Wake

NPR News - 12 hours 17 min ago

The calls are harrowing and they offer a glimmer of the chaos and emotion that followed the storm.

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Fresh Air Weekend: Soderbergh, Sarah Vaughan, Julianne Moore

Fresh Air with Terry Gross - 12 hours 26 min ago

The acclaimed director examines the five-year relationship between Liberace and his young lover. A new box set of Vaughan's music shows her range. In What Maisie Knew, Moore plays a troubled rock star who might initially seem like a rotten person, but Moore's performance humanizes the character.

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'Steal The Menu': A Chronicle Of A Career In Food Coverage

NPR Arts & Culture - 13 hours 26 min ago

When Raymond Sokolov began writing about food, it was considered a specialty portfolio. Today, celebrity chefs abound in the U.S. and Britain, with cookbooks, TV shows and groupies. Host Scott Simon speaks with Sokolov about his new book, Steal the Menu: A Memoir of Forty Years in Food.

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'Las Caras Lindas': To Be Black And Puerto Rican In 2013

NPR News - 13 hours 26 min ago

The complex identities navigated by black Puerto Ricans play out in the music of hip-hop artist Tego Calderón and one of his inspirations, Ismael Rivera.

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