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Tufts University became the first major university to strip the Sackler name from its buildings in 2019.

Journalist Investigates 'Crime Story' Of The Sackler Family And The Opioid Crisis

5:23pm April 14, 2021

by Terry Gross

Empire of Pain author Patrick Radden Keefe says the Sackler family has "thrown a lot of energy" into trying to thwart his reporting about the family's involvement in the opioid crisis.

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Laurie Anderson, an artist and performer whose work spans disciplines, channels her emotional past into transformative art.

Catching Up With Laurie Anderson, An Artist Always Ahead Of Her Time

8:25pm April 13, 2021

by Allyson McCabe

The versatile, eclectic multimedia artist and musician Laurie Anderson has taken stock of her life's work, pursuing reissues and retrospectives while always forging ahead.

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Carabinieri (Italian paramilitary police) officers of the art squad's archaeological unit pose with a headless Roman statue wearing a draped toga in Brussels on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021.

1st Century Roman Statue, Looted A Decade Ago, Found In Belgium By Off-Duty Police

7:24pm April 13, 2021

The statue is valued at 100,000 euros and was stolen from an archaeological site near the outskirts of Rome.

Mank is a biopic about the man who wrote Citizen Kane. But there's also a woman in the story: Marion Davies, a silver screen star and mistress of William Randolph Heart. She's pictured above in 1932.

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Starring As A Starlet, Amanda Seyfried Shines As Marion Davies In 'Mank'

4:09pm April 13, 2021

by Mandalit del Barco

To get into the role, Seyfried watched Davies' old movies, read her autobiography and listened to old scratchy recordings. She says playing the silver screen star was the ultimate dress-up dream.

Pacific Theatres And Arclight Cinemas Won't Be Reopening

4:09pm April 13, 2021

by Andrew Limbong

ArcLight is one of the theater chains most loved by filmmakers and film lovers. Shut for a year in the pandemic, ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres announced their locations will close for good.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. On 'The Black Church' And His Own Bargain With Jesus

1:44pm April 13, 2021

by Terry Gross

When he was 12, Gates made a bargain with Jesus in an attempt to save his mother's life. He talks about how that altered his own life, and his new book and PBS series, The Black Church.

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People wearing protective face masks walk by the closed Cinerama Dome theater during the coronavirus pandemic on April 18, 2020, in Los Angeles.

Cinerama Dome Among ArcLight, Pacific Theaters To Close Due To Pandemic Losses

12:31pm April 13, 2021

by Bob Mondello

With the closing of 300 screens, Hollywood laments the loss of the iconic Cinerama Dome; it opened in 1963 with the premiere of Stanley Kramer's wide-screen comedy It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, by Dawnie Walton

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'The Final Revival Of Opal & Nev' Is A Faux Music History That Rocks

11:39am April 13, 2021

by Maureen Corrigan

Dawnie Walton's sly narrative is a story about music, race and family secrets that spans five decades, centering on an interracial rock duo who strike it big in the early '70s.

The Souvenir Museum, by Elizabeth McCracken

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'The Souvenir Museum' Is An Exhibit To Savor

7:00am April 13, 2021

by Heller McAlpin

Elizabeth McCracken's new story collection dazzles with verbal flexibility, insight and feeling, capturing the oddities and mixed bags, the loves and losses that make up most people's lives.

I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust: A Memoir of Autism and Hope, by Valerie Gilpeer and Emily Grodin.

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Mother-Daughter Memoir Of Autism Exemplifies The Power Of Language

4:33am April 13, 2021

by Jason Heller

Heartbreaking and uplifting in equal measure, I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust is a chronicle of not only finding one's voice, but of learning to make others understand that voice.