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'Vermilion' Finds New Magic In The Old West

2:29pm April 22, 2015

by Jason Heller

Molly Tanzer's grit-and-ghosts adventure follows a young woman tasked with guiding troubled spirits in a colorfully diverse, alternate-history Wild West, full of talking animals and vampires.

Chef Andrew Gerson of Brooklyn Brewery organized a dinner party featuring ingredients used by Dutch settlers and Native Americans living in 1650s New York City.

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Brooklyn Brewery Dares Diners To Eat Like Dutch Settlers

2:22pm April 22, 2015

by Hansi Lo Wang

Pass the salt pork! A brewery in New York took diners back in time with local dishes from the 1650s. That means a lot of venison, sumac, fried dough and — don't worry — beer.

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George Lucas and Stephen Colbert talked on Friday at an event at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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George Lucas Sneezes, And Other Moments From His Talk With Colbert

1:37pm April 22, 2015

by Linda Holmes

George Lucas doesn't have a lot left to say about Star Wars, but Stephen Colbert does, and so does a guy in the crowd who just wants to help George Lucas out.

Sandra Bullock is at the top of People magazine's World's Most Beautiful list for 2015.

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'People' Names Sandra Bullock, 50, World's Most Beautiful Woman

12:33pm April 22, 2015

by Bill Chappell

The actress is the oldest person to head the annual list. But as Clinton and Bush race for the White House, the news seems like deja vu — a vision from 1992.

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'I Regret Everything': Toni Morrison Looks Back On Her Personal Life

12:15pm April 22, 2015

"It's not profound regret," Morrison tells Fresh Air. "It's just a wiping up of tiny little messes that you didn't recognize as mess when they were going on." Her latest book is God Help the Child.

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Toni Morrison's novels include Beloved, The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon. She won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993.

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Toni Morrison's New Novel Is Best Read With Her Backlist In Mind

12:14pm April 22, 2015

by Saeed Jones

The Nobel Prize winner has become a giant in the literary world, but reviewer Saeed Jones says that her latest novel can only stand with confidence when it has the idea of the author as its spine.

Architecture professor Diana Agrest evaluates her students' work during a class critique at Cooper Union in New York.

Teaching Students To Hear The Music In The Built World

9:31am April 22, 2015

by Elizabeth Blair

Cooper Union architecture professor Diana Agrest has influenced generations of accomplished architects. Agrest was one of the first women to teach in the largely male-dominated field.

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The Kruger Brothers Play MerleFest 2015

9:07am April 22, 2015

by David Ford

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After 20 Years On The Job, NYC Police Officer Tells His Intense Stories

6:46am April 22, 2015

"Your heart is pounding; your adrenaline is shooting out of your ears," Steve Osborne says. "And you got one second to get it right." He retired from the force in 2003. His memoir is called The Job.

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Detail from cover of Ross Macdonald: Four Novels of the 1950s

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Revisiting A Suburbia-Gone-Sour In Ross Macdonald's Crime Fiction

4:54pm April 21, 2015

by Maureen Corrigan

A reissue of four of the detective writer's 1950s novels excavates the dark depths of California's suburban decay. Maureen Corrigan praises Macdonald's "psychological depth" and "penetrating vision."

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