Arts

Award-Winning Poets Write For Passersby In New York

7:03pm April 23, 2015

by Hansi Lo Wang

In New York City, award-winning poets are sitting in booths Thursday, ready to write poems on demand for passersby. Organizers of the event say they want to bring poetry to everyone in the city.

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Michiel Huisman and Blake Lively in The Age of Adaline.

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Life Goes On (And On) In 'The Age Of Adaline'

5:24pm April 23, 2015

by Andrew Lapin

The conceptually intriguing story of a woman who doesn't age is let down by the (ironically?) lifeless way it presents the many, many years she has to work with.

Blue crabs brought back to Tony Goutierrez's dock in Hopedale, La. For the past few years, his traps have been coming up empty. "It's sad to see it go, but it's going — this way of life is going to disappear," he says.

Appetite For Gulf Seafood Is Back, But The Crabs And Oysters Aren't

1:55pm April 23, 2015

by Laine Kaplan-Levenson

Five years after the BP oil spill, the public has stopped asking whether seafood from the Gulf is safe to eat. But now there's a supply issue, and fishermen worry about the future of their industry.

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'Lovelace And Babbage' Is A Thrilling Adventure

1:10pm April 23, 2015

by Etelka Lehoczky

Sydney Padua's rollicking graphic novel about computing pioneers Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace transforms punch cards and little brass cogs into the stuff of legend, says critic Etelka Lehoczky.

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The Marshall Tucker Band To Perform At Merlefest 2015

9:34am April 23, 2015

by Eddie Garcia

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Remembering Pat Dowell, Longtime Film Reporter For NPR

9:33am April 23, 2015

by Tom Cole

Dowell filed as a freelancer for the network for close to 30 years. She was interested in serious films — films that told stories worth hearing — and she was dedicated to telling them.

A man and his beard: Will Forte plays a man seeking companionship in a world wasted by disease in The Last Man on Earth.

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'Last Man' Will Forte On Beards, Comedy And Bruce Dern's Acting Advice

9:25am April 23, 2015

Forte tells Fresh Air about landing a job on Saturday Night Live and learning on the set of Nebraska that acting is "all about commitment."

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Go Fish!

9:09am April 23, 2015

A verbal version of the children's card game "Go Fish", but with groups of things other than fish. Have you got any Cavendish, Lady Fingers, or Rajahs? Go bananas!

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Edit Please!

9:09am April 23, 2015

Which classic novel is "a group of lions and a bias that prevents objective consideration of an issue"? For this game we give an overly verbose title of a book for contestants to edit down.

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Second Chances

9:09am April 23, 2015

In this game, contestants win by coming in second. We ask questions with fairly well-known "number one" answers; knowing the "second place" answer is worth double points.

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