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The Martians Are Coming! 'Broadcast Hysteria' Looks At The War Over 'Worlds'

3:16pm August 06, 2015

by Jason Heller

Orson Welles' radio hoax famously convinced America that Martians had landed in New Jersey, right? A. Brad Schwartz's new Broadcast Hysteria argues that panic may have been blown out of proportion.

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Triad Arts Live: The Tyler Nail Trio

9:28am August 06, 2015

by Eddie Garcia

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'The Lufthansa Heist' Is No Score

8:54am August 06, 2015

by Sarah D. Bunting

The famous 1978 Lufthansa robbery is a great crime story — it was even a plot point in GoodFellas. But a new book about the heist falls flat, hampered by purple prose and pointless details.

"Eventually I learned to modulate [my rants] a little. Build some peaks and valleys. And now that I give them more valleys, and don't yell as much, they go, 'He got tired.' Idiots." - Lewis Black

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Lewis Black: Which Is Worse?

7:42am August 06, 2015

What's worse, the TSA or the NSA? Let the comic and Daily Show contributor known for his rants enlighten you. Plus, Black describes his journey from playwright to stand-up to Bar Mitzvah performer.

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Cookie Monster Vocals

7:40am August 06, 2015

In this game we focus on Cookie Monster's habit of confusing "I" with "me," and convert pop songs to Cookie's grammatical tendencies--so, a certain Beatles hit becomes "Me Want to Hold Your Hand."

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This game is about nouns that only seem like comparative adjectives because they end in the letters i-e-r. A high chest of drawers with a delicate whipped texture might be a "chiffon-ier chiffonier."

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'Two Across' Spells Out A Charming Love Story In Crosswords

8:37pm August 05, 2015

by Heller McAlpin

Jeff Bartsch's new novel is about a brainy couple who, after meeting at a 1960s spelling bee, conduct their troubled love affair through secret clues in the crosswords they compose for newspapers.

Abel Rodriguez showed off his basket-weaving skills at the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

A Self-Taught Artist Paints The Rain Forest By Memory

3:47pm August 05, 2015

by Jessie Rack

He'd never drawn before. Then he was asked to depict the Colombian rain forest he knew so well. Naturalists cherish the ink-and-watercolor works of Abel Rodriguez. And so do art lovers.

Filmmaker Paul Riccio's characters the Timmy Brothers "are introducing handcrafted water to the world with an almost pathological attention to craftsmanship and a thirst for helping people become less thirsty."

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'Bespoke Water' Video Pokes Fun At Earnest Artisanal Food Makers

2:33pm August 05, 2015

by Eliza Barclay

To sell your artisanal products in Brooklyn these days, you need a good story. Meet the Timmy Brothers, a fictional Brooklyn pair who have "a thirst for helping people become less thirsty."

Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Shonda Rhimes and Ellen Pompeo at the ABC panel discussion during the 2015 Summer TCA Tour.

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5 Things We Learned From ShondaLand

11:46am August 05, 2015

by Linda Holmes

We know that Shonda Rhimes doesn't want to talk about her legacy, that Olivia Pope is a questionable role model, and a few other things about Thursday nights on ABC.