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Stacks of bowls in the company's signature colors, like "sand" and "light grey whale."

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Cooper Hewitt Honors Colorful California Ceramics Company

9:57pm October 15, 2015

by Mandalit del Barco

Heath Ceramics' tiles and tableware are the darling of midcentury-design fans. Now, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is honoring the company for its aesthetics, values and business model.

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Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston) seduces Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) in <em>Crimson Peak</em>.

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Del Toro's 'Crimson Peak': A Gothic Romance Inside Richly Creepy Walls

9:40pm October 15, 2015

by Scott Tobias

Guillermo Del Toro loads this genre piece with so much luscious visual language that its story and performers are almost superfluous.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hanya Yanagihara and Pam Muñoz Ryan are the 2015 Kirkus Prize winners.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hanya Yanagihara And Pam Muñoz Ryan Win Kirkus Prizes

8:54pm October 15, 2015

by Colin Dwyer

The literary awards were handed out for nonfiction, fiction and young readers' literature, respectively. Established just last year by Kirkus Reviews, the prize offers $50,000 to each winner.

Beakman, played by performance artist Paul Zaloom, was on TV in the U.S. 20 years ago, but is still beloved in Latin America, where it plays in reruns.

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Remember 'Beakman's World'? The Wacky Scientist Is Still Big In Latin America

7:33pm October 15, 2015

by Jon Kalish

The children's TV show ran for just five years in the U.S. in the 1990s. But it's still hugely popular in Latin America, and a stage version of the show attracts audiences in the thousands.

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'The Golden Compass' Turns 20 (Its Daemon Has Probably Settled)

7:33pm October 15, 2015

by NPR Staff

Philip Pullman's beloved fantasy series traces the adventures of brave young Lyra Belacqua (and her daemon, Pantalaimon), through an alternate universe that occasionally spills over into our own.

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Former New York Times restaurant critic and Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl speaks in New York City in 2013.

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How Twitter And Cooking Saved Ruth Reichl After 'Gourmet' Folded

7:33pm October 15, 2015

by Neda Ulaby

Food writer Ruth Reichl has a new cookbook called My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life. It describes how she found her voice after Conde Nast shut down the magazine where she was editor.

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Alexander Hamilton's Financial Legacy Is A Hit Musical

7:33pm October 15, 2015

by Jim Zarroli

Hamilton, the hottest ticket on Broadway, is a musical about the decidedly un-hot topic of his crucial role in U.S. economics. What can we learn about debt and the dollar through rhymes and R&B?

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Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs in the film, directed by Danny Boyle. "Steve's obsession is where we're going, not where we've been," Boyle says, "and he is maniacally focused on that, and will eviscerate anything that reminds him of the past."

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In 'Steve Jobs,' A Life Told In 3 Acts — And Countless Complexities

7:27pm October 15, 2015

by NPR Staff

The mercurial Apple co-founder helped shape the world and our daily lives. Still, director Danny Boyle says, while "he's made some of the most beautiful things imaginable, he is himself poorly made."

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Big Themes, Tiny Frames: An Art Show Writ Small

6:23pm October 15, 2015

This weekend, The Mini Show opens at The Lodge, an emerging gallery on a gritty street in Los Angeles. It'll feature teeny, tiny paintings.

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The Art of Language, by David J. Peterson.

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Meet The Man Who Invents Languages For A Living

6:22pm October 15, 2015

by NPR Staff

David J. Peterson has crafted languages for TV shows and films — even a whole language for a single giant, in Game of Thrones. For him, every language is a balance of the technical and the artistic.

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