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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Art and design: Art | theguardian.com40 years on, The Godfather is back with black characters, thanks to the Nigerian artist Uche Okpa-Iroha, who has digitally inserted himself into scenes from Francis Ford Coppolas gangster classic. He says: The Godfather is one of the bes...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from MarvelousIn attempt to reduce pollution in her hometown of Istanbul, 16 year old Elif Bilgin made plastic. Although it might not sound like her ingenious work is very environmentally friendly– it is.The difference between her award winning plasti...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from The Verge - Culture Posts
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from ARTnewsStarting next month, a group of contemporary artists from the Middle East, collectively known as Edge of Arabia, will take a three-year-long road trip around the United States, using high-tech devices and the Internet to digitally archiv...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comWhen you ask your friends to look after your 6-month-old for a day, it's understandable if you go a little overboard with instructions, especially if it's their first time caring for him. You want to make sure they're able to tackle anyt...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comNEW YORK (AP) — There's an upcoming concert at Baruch College, but it has nothing to do with students. The performers are in their 90s, and one is even older than the Manhattan school founded in 1919. Pianist and composer Irving Fields, ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from The Verge - Culture Posts
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Cool Hunting
Advertorial content: For Michael Williams, staying busy is never a challenge. His immensely influential menswear and lifestyle blog A Continuous Lean (ACL) was one of the early standouts in the category when it... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from RollingStone.com: Culture
It was a busy weekend in sports: Rory McIlroy won his fourth major title at the PGA Championship, there were 19-inning games on consecutive days – Angels-Red Sox on Saturday, Jays-Tigers on Sunday – for the first time in MLB history and ... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Dance | The GuardianRoyal Opera House, London The Mariinsky's joyful dancing does much to make up for Balanchine's occasional lack of choreographic imagination Balanchine 's A Midsummer Nights Dream is little known in Britain, and for all those steeped in A...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comAfter dropping the first four songs off of his fifth installment of "Tha Carter" series -- "Krazy," "D'usse," "Believe Me" and "Grindin" -- Lil Wayne provides us with the first visuals for "Krazy." The video, which was inspired by "One F...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from artnet News
Should we be concerned about a new trend in staging old shows? -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from artnet News
Dollhouse and dollhouse collections are becoming a big draw for regional auction houses. -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from NYT > ArtsThe opera “JFK,” by David T. Little will not have its premiere until 2016 but a workshop performance has been scheduled for New York in November.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from DeMilkedDeMilked | DeMilked
In the photo series “Flower Power, Pit Bulls of the Revolution,’ Brooklyn-based French photographer Sophie Gamand set out to portray shelter pit-bulls in a different, brighter light, demonstrating their unquestionably sweet nature that s... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from artnet News
New York artists could make a splash at next year’s Havana Biennial (May 22–June 22, 2015), as the Bronx Museum is reportedly in talks with National Fine Arts Museum in Havana to plan the first exhibition in Cuba by a US museum. Ac... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comAt last year's ALMA Awards, Tyler Posey said he hadn't seen Jennifer Lopez in the 11 years since he starred as her son, Ty, in the 2002 rom-com "Maid in Manhattan." (He was, however, invited to her birthday party once, but he couldn't ma...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comPractice doesn't always make perfect when it comes to becoming the next Mozart, a new study suggests. Researchers compared pairs of identical twins, and found that no matter how hard one twin had practiced up until that point in their li...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Art and design: Art | theguardian.comJedediah Johnson's photographic series involves him putting on lipstick then kissing people, before documenting the smears in portraits. But, he insists, he's not just doing it for cheap thrills From the naked women that Yves Klein cover...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comPassengers who happened to be at the Václav Havel Airport Prague at the same time as one very talented musician were given a rare treat in the form of an impressive performance of Beethoven's "Für Elise," employing multiple styles. The v...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comAs Disney, Warner Bros. and Sony take a slow walk toward putting a female superhero back onscreen, writer Jordan Zakarin, director Jeff Kornberg and star Ali Vingiano have taken matters into their own hands. The trio is responsible for "...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comWelcome to the world of the moko jumbies, the guardians of a stilt-walking tradition that originated in West Africa and migrated to the Caribbean hundreds of years ago. Their talents have been seen at Carnival celebrations in places like...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comArtist Tracey Adams , who currently has a solo show on view at the Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, draws her ideas and inspirations from a wide variety of fields including music, mathematics and science. In her varied works, all of t...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Fubiz™
Après Embryo Treehouse dont nous avons déjà pu vous parler, le designer Antony Gibbon nous dévoile The Nook, un projet de tipi moderne personnalisable proposant grace à un système de panneaux en bois une structure très réussie. A découvr... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comFrench photographer Antoine Bruy spent several years hitchhiking around Europe, documenting the lives of men and women who have abandoned the bustle of cities to live, as they say, off the grid. Existing on mountainsides and river valley...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtThis year's Edinburgh Art Festival, featuring the likes of Jim Lambie and Isa Genzken, is a hit-and-miss affair, says Alastair Sooke
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comIf you're a fan of the "Art21" series , PBS's gem of a program dedicated to art in the 21st century, we have a treat for you. Over the next few months, we'll be previewing clips from the series, giving a sneak peek into the experiences o...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comAlthough there's not much scientific evidence to support this claim, space and time seem to operate a bit differently in Los Angeles. Maybe it's the movie industry that leaves a strange film over the city, where spaces aren't what they c...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from ARTnewsLaurie Anderson sues for $180,000 still owed to Lou Reed by a concert promoter. [New York Post] A rising tide lifts all boats? Scott Reyburn examines the “bad art” market. [The New York Times] “Cuba is in talks with the...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts&Culture - latimes.comFor more than 30 years, L.A. audiences and arts funders have followed Esa-Pekka Salonen down new pathways into classical music.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts&Culture - latimes.comPersuading white patients to patronize a predominantly black hospital during the late 1950s proves a daunting challenge on “Giants,” Episode 205 of Showtime’s “Masters of Sex.”
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts&Culture - latimes.comThere’s an antidote for the deadly virus ravaging the body of vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), but he refuses to take it on “Almost Home,” Episode 78 of HBO’s “True Blood.”
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtMetronomy were impressive but Burt Bacharach and London Grammar disappointed at Wilderness Festival, says Ben Travis
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts&Culture - latimes.comIn the classical-music world, concert halls are typically named after philanthropists and other major donors who have given substantial sums of money to help make the new building a reality.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comDowntown man Billy Joel has spent 2014 performing monthly at New York's Madison Square Garden, and for the August show he surprised fans in attendance by singing "Uptown Girl" to Christie Brinkley , his ex-wife, who was in the front row....
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from artnet News
Dallas Museum of Art director dreamed American art in 50 states and 50,000 locations. -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Stage: Theatre blog | guardian.co.ukHere's a little roundup of fringe theatre highlights that should hit the spot. Tell us about the one show that has made your Edinburgh worthwhile We are almost halfway through the fringe and as usual I've barely managed to scratch the su...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtBenedict Cumberbatch fans race to snap up tickets for next year's run of Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comBy Tom Jacobs As its recent reincarnation on Broadway reminded us, you can’t separate Rocky from its music. It’s easy to believe the lovable underdog boxer could be a champion, so long as that rousing, brass-heavy score is roaring as ins...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Colossal
Based in Oxford, England, illustrator Chloe Giordano creates delicate depictions of miniature animals rendered with freehand embroidery. The final works of a sleeping fawn or mouse are scarcely larger than the size of a thimble, yet can ... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comIt is easy to get depressed about the future of the arts in America when one reads countless stories of arts institutions facing large deficits, lockouts and strikes, and even closure. Conventional wisdom holds that our audiences are agi...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtThe James Plays are seven-and-a-half-hours of blistering emotion, says Charlotte Runcie
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtWatch: Adrien Brody is the Great Harry Houdini in the new trailer for Houdini
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Open Culture
If you, as a filmgoer, have anything in common with me — and if you happen to live in Los Angeles as well — you’ve spent the past few weeks excited about the Andrei Tarkovsky double-bill coming up at the Quentin Tarantino-owned Ne... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from artnet News
SLIDESHOW: The future of photography is now, and that future is full of drones. -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arts&Culture - latimes.comCate Blanchett is spectacular in Sydney Theatre Company's patchy production of Jean Genet's 'The Maids' in New York. Isabelle Huppert is also fierce, but seemingly at odds with the rest of the cast. Cate Blanchett is spectacular in Sydne...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from artnet News
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtLaura Barnett finds Exhibit B, the South African director Brett Bailey's painful meditation on race and colonial history, both powerful and problematic
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtThe first look at the Breaking Bad spin-off show was released on American TV
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Cool Hunting
The latest holistic skincare line to cross our path is Kypris, coming by way of Scottsdale, Arizona. With six plant- and mineral-based products in the line (three serums and three elixirs, or face oils) it's not... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Latest Broadway BuzzBroadway.com has been hitting the movies! This year’s summer blockbusters are packed with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, and we want to know which summer movie star you’d like to see on Broadway. The votes are in, a...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from WhatsOnStage.com: ReviewsA multi-layered look at debt and poverty from The Paper Birds
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureThe French phrase mise-en-place means to gather and arrange the ingredients and tools needed for cooking. But for many culinary professionals, its organizing principles are also a way of life.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Cultural News
New Los Angeles Consul General of Japan Harry Hidehisa Horinouchi arrived at Los Angeles on Aug. 7. He and his wife appeared at the Nisei Week Grand Parade on Aug. 10 in Little Tokyo. -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from The StageWhat is it about children’s books and theatre? Last week I saw (and reviewed for The Stage) Hetty Feather at the Vaudeville in the Strand. It was the second time I’d seen it – I…
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Cultural News
Nisei Week Queen 2014 Tori Nishinaka-Leon (right in photo) appears on a float to the public during the Nisei Week Grand Parade on August 10. -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from The Irish Times - CultureNational Heritage Week, with 1,700 events attracting over 400,000 people, shows what is possible
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Behance Network Featured Projects
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from World of Dance » World of DanceLEARN FROM POPPIN’ JOHN : http://www.LEARN2BUST.com SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/poppinjohnfof BOOKING: Aris@xceltalent.com TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/poppin_john INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/poppinjohnsbk SO...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsThe monthly missive from Across the Pond reflects on Kevin Spacey's work as artistic director at the Old Vic Theatre as well as Maureen Lipman's performance in the Haymarket production of Daytona .
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsThe St. Louis Muny's seventh and final show of its 96th season, the Tony-winning Jerry Herman musical Hello, Dolly!, begins its limited engagement at the famed outdoor venue Aug. 11.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsThe Transport Group's sold-out concert presentation of Meredith Willson's The Music Man is offered Aug. 11 at 8 PM at the Irene Diamond Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsCabaret for a Cause presents a one-night-only concert Aug. 11 at Brooklyn's Galapagos Arts Space to benefit kef productions and their education program, Story Shifters.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsPatti Murin, who starred on Broadway in Lysistrata Jones, makes her solo debut at 54 Below Aug. 11.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Playbill.com : News1867 Actor-producer Joseph Weber, of the vaudeville comedy team Weber and Fields, is born today.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Behance Network Featured Projects
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from globeandmail - Art & Architecture‘He became the No. 1 purveyor of things Asian, especially objects, in the Western world … he was unbeatable’
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from The Irish Times - CultureWe in Foil, Arms & Hog are in our sixth Fringe and it’s getting easier. Never mind that our apartment has buttered bread stuck to a wall
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from The Irish Times - CultureThe former US poet laureate believes in bringing poetry to the widest possible audience. Some critics have found his poetry to be lacking in complexity, but he’ll take that over wilful obscurity any day
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from TheaterMania.comThe Wicked and Smash star will be baring even more of her soul during an upcoming Broadway @ The Art House concert series.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from All News
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from All News
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from All News
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from The Irish Times - CultureAn Irishman’s Diary about deportation and denial
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from The Irish Times - CultureFree downloads from the (other) National Archives
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Behance Network Featured Projects
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from WhatsOnStage.com: ReviewsThérèse Raquin is a thrilling, theatrical triumph at Bath Theatre Royal and continues a summer of sterling work for the theatre.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Channel 4 News Culture FeedBoxing promoter Frank Maloney, who guided Lennox Lewis to the world heavyweight title in 1993, is undergoing gender reassignment treatment and now lives as a woman called Kellie.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Behance Network Featured Projects
Hack the Expo How to make money during EXPO 2015? Here is a series of illustrations published in the April issue of Wired Italia, that suggests different ways to build up a business. Art direction by David Moretti. -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsThe Sydney Theatre Company's production of The Maids , starring Academy Award winner Cate Blancett, officially opened Aug. 8 at the 2014 Lincoln Center Festival at New York City Center.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Cultural News
Ms. Tori Angela Nishinaka-Leon, 24-year-old, representing Pasadena Japanese Cultural Institute, was selected as the 2014 Nisei Week Queen on Aug. 9 at Aratani Theatre. (Photo by Daniel Tam-Lung) -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Hollywood Reporter - Theater Reviews FeedCate Blanchett, Isabelle Huppert and Elizabeth Debicki ("The Great Gatsby") star in this Sydney Theatre Company production of Jean Genet's absurdist classic. read more
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Cultural News
A team of three students from the University of Tokyo are searching for second to fourth generation descendants of Japanese-American “Picture Brides” for the filming of a documentary for the purpose of an university summer program. The d... -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Cultural News
The First Annual “Nagoya Day” event will be presented on Sunday, August 10, from 11:40 am – 6 pm at the Park area in the Grove shopping center, 189 The Grove Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90036. There is no admission fee and is open to the gen... -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Cultural News
The 74th Annual Nisei Week Japanese Festival will take place in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo. From August 9 -17. Nisei Week is one of the nation’s longest running ethnic festivals of its kind. The Festival showcases free Japanese cultural e... -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Behance Network Featured Projects
Data Visualization styleguide for Deutsche Telekom, one of the largest european telecommunication companies. The styleguide defines visual and structural rules on how to display informations for all Telekom online and print products. We ... -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from National Post | Arts » Theatre reviews
It’s Martin Luther King’s last night on earth. He doesn’t know it of course, but the audience does; and that simple contrast is what sustains The Mountaintop -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from WhatsOnStage.com: ReviewsRobert Carsen takes the Crusades into the classroom as one of Handel's most tuneful operas is revived
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 10 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureNPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to Richard Flanagan, author of the new book, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureLewis Buzbee's account of his idyllic youth in the California public school system is relentlessly positive, though bracketed with criticism of current school policy and a firm call for more funding.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureAt age 14, author Aaron Gwyn was lonely and angry. His dad was dead. His mom was addicted to pills. Then he discovered The Stranger, a novel of absurdity and detachment. Somehow, it helped him deal.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from The Irish Times - CultureOpinion: ‘A republic includes all of the experiences and all of the vulnerabilities of all of its citizens’ – Michael D Higgins
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Dazed
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from The Irish Times - CultureThis week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we have a daily Q&A with a debut author
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from WhatsOnStage.com: ReviewsLuke Barnes' play, which premiered at HighTide, is set in the build up to the Hillsborough disaster
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from WhatsOnStage.com: ReviewsA production from Russia marking the First World War centenary is a spectacular highlight of this year's EIF
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Behance Network Featured Projects
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from WhatsOnStage.com: ReviewsThe upcoming Scottish independence referendum is the subject of this Fringe First-winning satire
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from WhatsOnStage.com: ReviewsThe queen of spleen tells all in this solo satire starring Lizzie Roper
