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Museum of the Bible says 5 of its most famed artifacts are fake

Museum of the Bible says 5 of its most famed artifacts are fake

After independent analysis, the museum said on Monday that five of its famed Dead Sea Scrolls fragments were fake. They will be pulled from their exhibit. Other fragments will undergo further study.
by Emily Sullivan

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'Glimmer of Hope' provides a blueprint for launching social change

'Glimmer of Hope' provides a blueprint for launching social change

With a new collection of essays, the 25 founders of March For Our Lives return the subject of the Parkland shooting and gun violence to national consciousness just in time for midterms elections.
by Aubri Juhasz

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Fierce, spiky 'Friday Black' packs a big punch

Fierce, spiky 'Friday Black' packs a big punch

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's intellectually hefty debut works through ideas about racism, about classism and capitalism, about the apocalypse, and, most of all, about the corrosive power of belief.
by Lily Meyer

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Tall Heights to play the Turf Club in St. Paul

The band is led by Paul Wright and Tim Harrington, who met in high school and developed their vocal harmonies one summer while busking on the streets of Boston.
by MPR News Staff

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The Beastie Boys on their hip-hop journey and missing Adam Yauch

The Beastie Boys on their hip-hop journey and missing Adam Yauch

Adam Horovitz (aka Ad-Rock) and Mike Diamond (Mike D) of the hip-hop group Beastie Boys talk about their new book, which is largely a love letter to their late band mate, Adam 'MCA' Yauch. Plus they reflect on growing up in 1980s New York City and how they gained respect in hip-hop.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus to be honored for career achievement in comedy

Julia Louis-Dreyfus to be honored for career achievement in comedy

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is one of the best-known comedic actresses of her generation, and now she's being recognized with the Mark Twain Award for lifetime achievement in comedy.
by Associated Press

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She's mom to a headstrong teen -- who happens to be Joan of Arc

She's mom to a headstrong teen -- who happens to be Joan of Arc

In "Mother of the Maid," Glenn Close returns to the New York stage to portray a 15th-century peasant woman with a remarkable adolescent daughter she loves -- and can't protect.

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Futuristic dreams turn to nightmare in 'Electric State'

Futuristic dreams turn to nightmare in 'Electric State'

In his latest book, Swedish artist Simon Stalenhag uses his ghostly photorealism to create an alternate America overcome by an addiction to technology, by drought, by war and loss and loneliness.
by Jason Sheehan

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