Arts

The walls of 5Pointz were once covered in graffiti. Artists worldwide came to New York to paint the warehouse surface.

Arts

Remembering 5Pointz: A Five-Story Building That Told Plenty More

6:54pm November 21, 2013

by Bruce Wallace

The walls of the warehouse complex in Queens were once covered with ever-evolving spray-painted art. But the graffiti museum (of sorts) has been painted over in preparation for demolition, and artists are mourning the loss.

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Beef cattle stand in a barn on the Larson Farms feedlot in Maple Park, Ill.

Inside The Beef Industry's Battle Over Growth-Promotion Drugs

4:39pm November 21, 2013

by Dan Charles

Beta agonists, a class of drugs widely fed to cattle and hogs to make them put on weight faster, are coming under increasing scrutiny. Reports suggest animals fed these drugs can seem reluctant to move — lethargic, unable to walk properly — and may die more often, too.

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African migrants crowd the night shore of Djibouti city, trying to capture inexpensive cell signals from neighboring Somalia—a tenuous link to relatives abroad. For more than 60,000 years our species has been relying on such intimate social connections

Around The World In ... A Lot Of Steps

11:51am November 21, 2013

by Abbey Oldham

Paul Salopek has discovered that the best way to a storyteller is by foot.

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A&T Jazz Ensemble All Stars Perform Tonight

8:18am November 21, 2013

by David Ford

For some people jazz music is something to listen to occasionally, collect, and share with friends. For others it's a way of life, a constant search for that perfect melody. Trumpeter Mondre Moffett continues his search which began as a young boy. Mondre's father was the legendary avant guard or free jazz drummer Charles Moffet. Mondre grew up performing trumpet and composing for the Moffett Family Jazz Band, touring the U.S. and South East Asia, and later internationally with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

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In a new memoir, Anjelica Huston recounts her childhood in Ireland, her teen years in London and her coming of age in New York.

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Anjelica Huston Tells Her 'Story' Of Growing Up With A Director Dad

2:40pm November 20, 2013

The actor's new memoir, A Story Lately Told, ends just as her Hollywood career is taking off. It covers her early life growing up in Ireland, the daughter of Maltese Falcon director John Huston. The two first collaborated on 1969's Walk With Love And Death, a project that proved disastrous for their relationship.

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Keegan-Michael Key (left) and Jordan Peele both started their careers at Second City, Peele in Chicago and Key in Detroit.

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For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power'

2:19pm November 20, 2013

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele each have a white mother and black father, and a lot of the jokes on their Comedy Central show are about race. Peele tells Fresh Air that their backgrounds allow them to do characters others would feel uncomfortable doing.

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Sawtooth School for Visual Art Will Present Deck the Halls

8:37am November 20, 2013

by David Ford

Deck the Halls at Sawtooth School for Visual Art began as a little 3-day art show f

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Toni Servillo plays a jaded journalist and perpetual partier in The Great Beauty, Italy's submission for the best foreign language film Oscar.

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'Great Beauty,' 'Narco Cultura': Excess, Succeeding Wildly

3:36pm November 19, 2013

by John Powers

Critic John Powers says Italy's submission for the best foreign language film Oscar and a documentary about the Mexican drug war got him thinking about a William Blake proverb: "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

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Fresh Air Remembers 'Golden Notebook' Author Doris Lessing

1:24pm November 19, 2013

Lessing's 1962 book was regarded as among the most important feminist novels of its time. She died Sunday. Fresh Air's Terry Gross interviewed Lessing in 1988 and 1992.

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UNCSA Alumna and Off-Broadway Director GT Upchurch and She Loves Me Production

10:36am November 19, 2013

by David Ford

Wake Forest University and University of NC School of the Arts alumna GT Upchurch may have just graduated from UNCSA's School of Drama in 2005, but she's already on lots of people's radar. GT has directed several Off-Broadway productions, including last year's Harper Regan by Simon Stephens which received a Top Ten Shows of 2012 nod from the New York Times. The Times also profiled her in February's article “Staging a Sisterhood,” about the rise of women directors in New York. Recently GT's been sharing her talents with UNCSA 4th year senior drama students during rehearsals for Joe Masteroff's romantic comedy She Loves Me.

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