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It's The Fuzz! Cat Detective Swipes A Claw At Crime In 'William'

3:32pm April 27, 2015

by NPR Staff

When the Mona Cheesa goes missing in Paris, "international cat of mystery" William is called in on the case. Helen Hancocks joins NPR's Scott Simon to talk about William & the Missing Masterpiece.

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'Publicly Shamed:' Who Needs The Pillory When We've Got Twitter?

2:33pm April 27, 2015

by NPR Staff

Host Steve Inskeep explores modern-day humiliation with writer Jon Ronson, whose new book So You've Been Publicly Shamed digs into the lives of people who've been raked over the coals on social media.

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Sandwich Monday: Deep-Fried Cheese Curds

2:26pm April 27, 2015

by Ian Chillag

For this week's Sandwich Monday, we try deep-fried cheese curds. They're a regional specialty and the reason we haven't left the Midwest.

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Meet the Artist: Poet Joe Mills Discusses Poems From "This Miraculous Turning"

8:45am April 27, 2015

by David Ford

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President Lincoln's Cottage provided Abraham Lincoln with a refreshing escape from Washington's summer heat, but it was also the site of a painful period in Mary Todd Lincoln's life.

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Meet The 'Capital Dames,' Civil War Washington's Secret Power Brokers

9:21pm April 26, 2015

by NPR Staff

In her new book, Cokie Roberts explains how women like Mary Todd Lincoln and Jessie Benton Fremont influenced Washington's men of power when they weren't even allowed to vote.

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Each of the 60 paintings in Jacob Lawrence's Great Migration series is accompanied with a caption. For this panel, he wrote in 1941: "In every town Negroes were leaving by the hundreds to go North and enter into Northern industry."

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Painting The 'Epic Drama' Of The Great Migration: The Work Of Jacob Lawrence

9:18pm April 26, 2015

by Hansi Lo Wang

A rare exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art features 60 of Lawrence's paintings about the journey of 6 million African-Americans, who fled the segregated South during the Great Migration.

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Ophira Eisenberg & Ingrid Michaelson, 2015

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Ingrid Michaelson: Girl Chases Quiz Chases Girl

8:51pm April 26, 2015

Indie pop star Ingrid Michaelson performs on her ukulele, turns on her Staten Island accent and covers a rewritten "Somebody That You Used to Know."

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In Adult Beginners, Nick Kroll plays a failed tech entrepreneur who moves in with his older sister (Rose Byrne) and starts looking after her young son (Caleb and Matthew Paddock).

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Actor Nick Kroll: 'I'm A Real Solid Uncle The First Hour'

10:47am April 26, 2015

by NPR Staff

"By hour three," Kroll says, "I'm either on my phone or taking a nap." He tells NPR how being a youngest sibling and uncle of 12 informed his new film, Adult Beginners.

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A Puzzle As Easy As Falling Off A Log

10:47am April 26, 2015

by Will Shortz

Every answer to today's puzzle is a familiar two-word phrase or name in which the first word starts with L-O and the second word starts with G.

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This Weekend, Investigate The 'Edges' Of Fred Moten's Musical Poetry

10:47am April 26, 2015

by NPR Staff

In honor of National Poetry Month, our latest Weekend Read is Fred Moten's collection The Little Edges. Poet Douglas Kearney says Moten's power is in his attention to music, both in text and subject.

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