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Art Hounds: Looking into the vortex

Art Hounds: Looking into the vortex

Alexa Horochowski creates hypnotic prints using fans and plastic waste to comment on the environment.
by Marianne Combs

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Got a tattoo? Get a personalized book recommendation

Got a tattoo? Get a personalized book recommendation

Last summer, librarians in Portland, Ore., started giving out personal book recommendations based on readers' tattoos. Other libraries around the country are now picking up the practice.
by Tracy Mumford

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'Respect' wasn't a feminist anthem until Aretha Franklin made it one

'Respect' wasn't a feminist anthem until Aretha Franklin made it one

Today, Franklin's recording of "Respect" is definitive. But when she recorded it on Valentine's Day 1967, it was a radical gender-bending of Otis Redding's original.

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A Grammy-winning opera singer lives in Minneapolis

Lucas Meachem and his wife moved to her hometown in December. Meachem will be part of the Minnesota Opera's production "Thais" in the spring of 2018.

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The purely accidental lessons of the first black 'Bachelorette'

The purely accidental lessons of the first black 'Bachelorette'

Television shows don't have to be good or smart to tell you something about the culture that spawns them, and you might be surprised how much "The Bachelor" has to say about power.
by Linda Holmes

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Author Philip Pullman announces follow-up trilogy to 'His Dark Materials'

Author Philip Pullman announces follow-up trilogy to 'His Dark Materials'

The hugely successful fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials will be getting a "companion" trilogy. The first installment comes out in October.

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Novel imagines a life lived four different ways

Novel imagines a life lived four different ways

Author Paul Auster has always asked, "What if?" Now, in a new novel, he's taking a stab at an answer.
by Euan Kerr

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August Wilson and the short list of African-American Oscar winners

August Wilson and the short list of African-American Oscar winners

In a 1991 speech, playwright August Wilson said that one of the biggest wrongs in America is that the black experience is viewed as exhaustible, while stories of the white experience are told over and over again. The short list of African-American Academy Award winners underscores his point.
by Sara Porter

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