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Judy Blume is the author of many books for kids and teens, including Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Blubber. Her 1981 novel, Tiger Eyes, has just been adapted into a movie.

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Judy Blume Hits The Big Screen With 'Tiger Eyes' Adaptation

8:29pm June 07, 2013

by NPR Staff

With the help of her son Lawrence Blume, Judy Blume has adapted her 1981 novel into a film. The widely beloved coming-of-age author speaks with NPR's Audie Cornish about turning the book into a movie, and how the themes in Tiger Eyes echo her own life.

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A poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health found that African-Americans are unhappy with their local entertainment venues.

Black Americans Give Entertainment Options Failing Grades

8:29pm June 07, 2013

by Shereen Marisol Meraji

People often talk about African-Americans and other minorities being subject to "food deserts" — areas where fresh, healthy, affordable food is hard to come by. The findings of an NPR poll suggest that we should be thinking about "popcorn deserts," too.

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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves book cover detail

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'Beside Ourselves' Explores Human-Animal Connections

3:47pm June 07, 2013

by Maureen Corrigan

Karen Joy Fowler's haunting novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, draws on arguments she used to have with her father, a psychology professor, over how closely connected humans and animals really are. Fowler is also the author of the 2004 best-seller The Jane Austen Book Club.

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Brian Castner served as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer in the U.S. Air Force from 1999 to 2007, deploying to Iraq to command bomb disposal units in Balad and Kirkuk in 2005 and 2006.

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'The Life That Follows' Disarming IEDs In Iraq

2:30pm June 07, 2013

Brian Castner commanded two Explosive Ordnance Disposal units in Iraq, where his team disabled roadside IEDs and investigated the aftermath of roadside car bombings. He returned home a completely different man, which he details in his memoir, The Long Walk.

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Triad Arts Weekend: June 7, 2013

12:52pm June 07, 2013

by David Ford

Today it's all music all the time and for some good causes too: Roseanne Cash is raising funds for the Blue Ridge Music Center. Singer/songwriter Beth McKee is teaming up with the folks at Beta Verde to help stamp out hunger. The Dan River Girls are all set to keep Winston-Salem's downtown area just as hip as it wants to be during Second Sundays on 4th. They're here Live in Studio A with a concert preview. And speaking of Live in Studio A, how about master blues man Big Ron Hunter and award-winning singer/songwriter Laurelyn Dossett together at last!

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The Art of Yoga Comes to the Triad

8:30am June 07, 2013

by David Ford

You can participate in the art of Yoga Two-gether and Partner Balancing.

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In her latest book about Henry Molaison, Corkin tells the story of the amnesic man she studied for a half-century, whose brain helped teach neuroscientists about the distinctions between memory and intellect.

The Patient Who Let Us Peek Inside A Brain In 'Present Tense'

5:03pm June 06, 2013

For nearly 50 years, neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin worked with Henry Molaison, who lost most of his memory in 1953 after experimental surgery for severe seizures. Their work together taught us much of what we know today about memory, and she writes about Molaison and their work in her new book.

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Jason Isbell's latest album, Southeastern, is personal and intimate.

Jason Isbell: Literary, But Keeping An Edge On 'Southeastern'

3:18pm June 06, 2013

by Ken Tucker

Isbell is a singer-songwriter who came to prominence as a member of the Southern rock group Drive-By Truckers. He left that band in 2007, in part because of the substance-abuse problems he describes on his new solo album, Southeastern.

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Inside The Cel: Behind The Scenes With Animators

2:51pm June 06, 2013

The highly anticipated animated films Monsters University, Despicable Me 2 and Turbo hit theaters this summer. From cel technology to full-length, computer-animated, celebrity-studded movies, animation has come a long way.

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Blue Ridge Music Center Hosts Roseanne Cash, John Leventhal, and Wayne Henderson Concert

1:02am June 06, 2013

by David Ford

Did you know that The Blue Ridge Parkway is one of the most biologically diverse places in the world with more species of trees than are found in all of Europe?

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