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'Like Family' Rewards The Patient Reader

7:03am December 03, 2015

by Heller McAlpin

Physicist-turned-author Paolo Giordano's new novel follows a couple adrift after their beloved housekeeper dies. Critic Heller McAlpin says the book is melancholy, but offers a subtle hope.

Griffin Matthews stars in Invisible Thread, a semi-autobiographical musical he co-wrote with his partner, Matt Gould.

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'Invisible Thread' Is More Than A Musical About Uganda

6:24pm December 02, 2015

by Jeff Lunden

Based on co-writer Griffin Matthews' experiences in the country, Invisible Thread explores the connection between an American gay couple and a group of Ugandan orphans.

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Gloria Steinem Shares What She Learned 'On The Road'

6:20pm December 02, 2015

by Ina Jaffe

At 81, Gloria Steinem is still going strong. The noted feminist has been on tour promoting a new book, My Life On The Road, which she insists is not a memoir.

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Photojournalist Pays It Forward After Earning Thousands In Copyright Fees

6:13pm December 02, 2015

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to photojournalist Yunghi Kim who has taken copyright fees from her photographs and created small grants for other photographers.

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Sam Jones, 34, opened Sam Jones BBQ in Winterville, N.C., in early November. He's part of a trend of young pitmasters embracing all-wood cooking.

Pitmasters Fan The Old-School Flames Of All-Wood Barbecue

5:56pm December 02, 2015

by Jim Shahin

Barbecue lovers once feared that wood-fueled pits were endangered. But as appreciation of this traditional cooking method grows, pitmasters are finding wood-only is good business.

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Classic Sci-Fi Comic 'Eternaut' Fights The Power

9:28am December 02, 2015

by Etelka Lehoczky

What should science fiction look like? That's a question that absorbed the creators of The Eternaut, an iconic comic about an alien invasion, first serialized in a Buenos Aires newspaper in the 1950s.

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Boston Museum Exhibit Celebrates Legacy Of Black Mountain College

7:22pm December 01, 2015

by Andrea Shea

Black Mountain College was only open for 24 years, but it helped foment the work of several artists, musicians, dancers and filmmakers, including John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Cy Twombly. Now it's the subject of the first major museum retrospective at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art.

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Japanese Illustrator Shigeru Mizuki Dies At 93

7:05pm December 01, 2015

One of Japan's most beloved illustrators has died. Shigeru Mizuki always loved to draw, but it wasn't until he was in his 40s that he began to publish his most important work.

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Davia Nelson (left) and Nikki Silva (aka The Kitchen Sisters) are the producers of the Fugitive Waves podcast. You can hear an episode and find more recommended podcasts at earbud.fm.

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Looking For A Podcast? Try 'Fugitive Waves'

5:20pm December 01, 2015

Jenna Weiss-Berman, director of audio at Buzzfeed, says this podcast, produced by Kitchen Sisters Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, offers a gorgeous and complete soundscape.

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Yao Chen, Annie Leibovitz, Tavi Gevinson, Agnes Gund, and Marco Tronchetti Provera attended the launch of the 2016 Pirelli Calendar by Annie Leibovitz at Grosvenor House in London Monday.

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Heroic Women In Strong Poses: Serena Williams, Amy Schumer In Pirelli Calendar

4:25pm December 01, 2015

by Bill Chappell

"Beautiful, gross, strong, thin, fat, pretty, ugly, sexy, disgusting, flawless, woman." — that's how comedian Amy Schumer sums up this year's Pirelli calendar.