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Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's address book, circa 1950-1956

Arts

Peek Inside The 'Little Black Books' Of Some Famous American Artists

7:55am August 28, 2015

by Susan Stamberg

Mary Savig, curator at the Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C., says the contact lists reveal a lot about the artists' personal and professional networks.

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Brewers from Draught Works and the Denver Beer Co. collaborate on making a huckleberry sour beer last weekend at the Draught Works brewery in Missoula, Mont. The beer was kettle soured before being added to the fermentation tank seen here.

How Brewers Are Churning Out Tangy Sours Without The Hefty Price Tag

7:03am August 28, 2015

by Alastair Bland

Sour beers are made by deliberately adding microbes to create complex brews with a crisp, acidic taste. But that process takes lots of time and money, resulting in a pricey final product. Until now.

Regina Casé as Val in The Second Mother.

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A 'Second Mother,' Trapped In Service

7:30pm August 27, 2015

by Ella Taylor

Brazilian filmmaker Anna Muylaert's comedy suggests that to look at a society's political health, you look at the way the help is treated — like the housekeeper at the story's center.

Zac Efron as Cole in We Are Your Friends.

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'We Are Your Friends' Gets A Blissful Beat, Sometimes

6:46pm August 27, 2015

by Mark Jenkins

Zac Efron is little more than a good-looking void in this story of dance music in the San Fernando Valley, but the film is intermittently engaging as a medley of themes and genres.

Stieg Larsson died in 2004, never knowing how popular his Millennium books would become.

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The Girl Who Outlived Her Creator: Salander Returns In 'Spider's Web'

3:52pm August 27, 2015

by Lynn Neary

The fourth book in Stieg Larsson's best-selling Millennium series comes out internationally today — but Larsson died in 2004, so his father and brother hired a new writer to continue the series.

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You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman

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Cults, Foam Heads And Other Weird Things Thrive In 'Body Like Mine'

3:12pm August 27, 2015

by Jason Sheehan

Alexandra Kleeman's novel, populated by TV-obsessed characters on a steady diet of Popsicles and oranges, is a controlled exercise in what critic Jason Sheehan calls "terrifying banality."

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Larry David's First Time On Broadway: 'It's Not So Easy!'

1:45pm August 27, 2015

The comedian wrote and stars in Fish in the Dark, a play about rivalries and dysfunction when a family patriarch dies. Originally broadcast March 5, 2015.

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Chris Offutt Reveals A Family Secret In 'My Father, The Pornographer'

1:45pm August 27, 2015

Offutt's late father went from running a small insurance agency to writing more than 400 books, mostly pornography. Originally broadcast March 2, 2015.

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Television 2015: Five Shows They Will Never Stop Making

11:16am August 27, 2015

by Linda Holmes

Sure, the landscape of television has changed a lot in recent years. But some shows just recur over and over again, and it seems they always will.

Scientists who eat the plants and animals they study are following in the tradition of Charles Darwin. During the voyage of The Beagle, he ate puma ("remarkably like veal in taste"), iguanas, giant tortoises, armadillos. He even accidentally ate part of a

Science
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Dining Like Darwin: When Scientists Swallow Their Subjects

10:55am August 27, 2015

by Jessie Rack

Some scientists carry on the tradition of eating the animals or plants they study: leeches, tadpoles, 30,000-year-old bison. Darwin did it first, but why do it at all? Call it all-consuming curiosity.