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Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis enter Songwriters Hall of Fame

Jimmy Jam Harris and Terry Lewis got their start writing and producing for the S.O.S. Band and that's what got them fired from The Time.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Art Hounds: Duluth hand puppet possessed by Satan

Art Hounds: Duluth hand puppet possessed by Satan

This week Art Hounds recommend Renegade Theater Company's "Hand to God," Contempo Physical Dance's "Balacobaco" and a quartet of abstract artists.
by Marianne Combs

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A book inspired by bad stand-up comedy

A book inspired by bad stand-up comedy

David Grossman's unsettling new novel takes place over the course of a two-hour comedy set, as what seems like just a bad performance evolves into something truly strange, painful and urgent.
by Michael Schaub

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Adolescence isn't the only horror in 'The Mercy Of The Tide'

Adolescence isn't the only horror in 'The Mercy Of The Tide'

Zinemaker and designer Keith Rosson's debut novel is set in a small Oregon town in the 1980s, where the rain pours down, jellyfish rot on the beach -- and a strange supernatural force is on the move.
by Jason Heller

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'Crack in the Sea' poses refugee theme to young readers

'Crack in the Sea' poses refugee theme to young readers

St. Paul writer Heather Bouwman's novel is part fantasy, part history and part current events.
by Euan Kerr

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Cannibalism: It's 'perfectly natural,' a new scientific history argues

Cannibalism: It's 'perfectly natural,' a new scientific history argues

It's gruesome, but from a scientific standpoint, there's a predictable calculus for when humans and animals go cannibal, a new book says. And who knew European aristocrats ate body parts as medicine?
by Angus Chen

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Salvant to revive classic songs at the Dakota

Cecile McLorin Salvant will be joined by Aaron Diehl as they perform songs by Jelly Roll Morton and George Gershwin.

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Grad student discovers a lost novel written by Walt Whitman

Grad student discovers a lost novel written by Walt Whitman

An ad in a March 1852 edition of The New York Times led Zachary Turpin on an electronic search that uncovered a rags-to-riches novella that Whitman published anonymously.
by Glen Weldon

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Are cyborgs in our future? 'Homo Deus' author thinks so

Are cyborgs in our future? 'Homo Deus' author thinks so

Yuval Noah Harari expects we'll soon engineer our bodies in the same way we design products. "I think in general medicine ... will switch from healing the sick to upgrading the healthy," he says.

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