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New Technology Immerses Audiences At Sundance Film Festival

12:14pm January 27, 2015

by Mandalit del Barco

From flying like a bird to walking through a refugee camp in Syria, virtual reality has enabled journalists, filmmakers and artists to immerse their audience in their stories like never before.

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Alex Gibney's Going Clear is based on a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright.

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'Stronger Than Ever' Sundance Docs Tackle Scientology, Campus Rape

11:27am January 27, 2015

by NPR Staff

Critic Kenneth Turan says Going Clear and The Hunting Ground are among the films that "blew people away" at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

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Triad Jewish Film Festival Celebrates 14th Season

9:33am January 27, 2015

by David Ford

The Triad Jewish Film Festival, now in its 14^th season, brings together international film buffs with an interest in Jewish culture.

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Frank Sinatra captured by photographer William "PoPsie" Randolph during a 1943 concert. Author Ben Yagoda points to Sinatra as one of the interpreters who helped revive the Great American Songbook.

When Pop Broke Up With Jazz

9:00am January 27, 2015

by NPR Staff

For the first half of the 20th century, Tin Pan Alley songwriters like Irving Berlin and the Gershwins dominated pop music. By the the 1950s, tastes had changed, and the music changed with them.

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Sundance A Lab For Changing Models In Film, TV

9:00am January 27, 2015

Audie Cornish speaks with film reporter Steve Zeitchik of the Los Angeles Times about the trends, breakouts and mood at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

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Intended For Millennials, Dish's Sling TV Is A Cord Cutter's Dream

6:57pm January 26, 2015

by Eric Deggans

Dish Network soon debuts its Sling TV streaming service, with a small group of cable channels for $20 a month. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans tried it and says Sling TV is a welcome challenge to cable.

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For A Taste Of Grimdark, Visit The 'Land Fit For Heroes'

3:01pm January 26, 2015

by Genevieve Valentine

Richard K. Morgan's epic sword-and-planet (and alien technology) Land Fit for Heroes series is a good introduction to grimdark, a subgenre that aims to show the gritty underside of fantasy fiction.

One of Megan Mayhew Bergman's short stories is based on the life of dancer and actress Butterfly McQueen.

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These 13 'Almost Famous Women' Stirred Up Trouble, Or Trouble Found Them

2:17pm January 26, 2015

by Maureen Corrigan

Megan Mayhew Bergman's stories about historical women are littered with bad-girl paraphernalia, like smashed-up motorcycles and morphine needles. In this collection, their lives are richly imagined.

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'Ghettoside' Explores Why Murders Are Invisible In Los Angeles

1:17pm January 26, 2015

In her new book, journalist Jill Leovy studies the epidemic of unsolved murders in African-American neighborhoods and the relationships between police and victims' relatives, witnesses and suspects.

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In 'Fatherland,' A Daughter Outlines Her Dad's Radicalization

12:12pm January 26, 2015

by NPR Staff

Falling in love with your handsome pen pal, moving overseas to marry him, then finding out he's part of a terrorist organization: That's the Bunjevac family story, told in a new graphic memoir.

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