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Starbucks Joins Designer Trend With Rodarte Collaboration

9:06am January 07, 2013

by Kaomi Goetz

The coffee giant recently partnered with the Rodarte fashion house to offer a holiday collection. It's the latest example of high-end designers teaming up with mass-market retailers to make money while showing their work to a broader audience.

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Mapping A History Of The World, And Our Place In It

7:56am January 07, 2013

by NPR Staff

On the Map author Simon Garfield speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about the history of maps, how they can be used as political tools, and how GPS and modern mapping applications are changing the way we see ourselves and our place in the world.

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Re-Creating The 'Lost Carving' Of An English Genius

7:06pm January 06, 2013

by NPR Staff

David Esterly's life was changed in the 1970s when he came across wood carvings done by Grinling Gibbons more than 300 years earlier. Esterly became a wood carver, and even re-created one of Gibbons' pieces that was destroyed in a fire.

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"The Peter's Rock Church in Marianna is no everlasting monument; it has been left to rot, its windows broken, its steeple fallen over. Still, I found it beautiful. Kneeling in the cemetery, listening to the insects hissing, watching as a dog wandered past

Looking For Lost Memories In The Delta

8:14pm January 05, 2013

by Claire O'Neill

Photographer Eugene Richards explains why, 40 years after his first visit to the Arkansas Delta, he decided to go back.

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'Death Of Bees' Captures A Grim, Gory Coming-Of-Age

9:59am January 05, 2013

by NPR Staff

"Today is my birthday. Today I am fifteen. Today I buried my parents in the backyard." So begins Lisa O'Donnell's novel about two sisters who find their parents dead and, instead of reporting it, decide to keep it a secret until they can make it on their own.

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Triad Arts Weekend: January 4, 2013

2:17pm January 04, 2013

by David Ford

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Children's Theatre of Winston-Salem

2:08pm January 04, 2013

by David Ford

If you're a parent or grandparent looking for good quality, wholesome entertainment options for children The Children's Theatre of Winston-Salem is a great place to start.

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Frank Calabrese Jr. On Opening His 'Family Secrets'

12:04pm January 04, 2013

Frank Calabrese Jr. wrote a memoir about bringing down his father's murderous Chicago crime family. In Operation Family Secrets, Frank detailed how he helped the FBI convict his father of several murders by wearing a hidden wire and taping his father's conversations. His father died Christmas Day.

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The singer Skin of Skunk Anansie performs at Brixton Academy in London last month. She wrote the foreword to Laina Dawes' What Are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal.

The 'Life And Liberation' Of A Black Female Metal Fan

10:15am January 04, 2013

by NPR Staff

Writer Laina Dawes has loved heavy metal ever since she got her first Kiss album at age 8. But the metal community hasn't always loved her back, as she explains in her book What Are You Doing Here?

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Accountants from PricewaterhouseCoopers prepare ballots for last year's Oscars mailing. Glitches in a new online voting system have prompted organizers to push back this year's balloting deadline.

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E-Vote Hiccups Delay Oscar Balloting

6:10pm January 03, 2013

by NPR Staff

A new online option was meant to make things easier for Oscar voters — but widespread reports of difficulties have prompted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to extend the deadline.

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