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Garrett Brown with Sylvester Stallone during the filming of Rocky II.

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Steadicam Creator Joins Inventors Hall of Fame

11:32am April 30, 2013

by NPR Staff

Rocky Balboa's sprint up the stairs of the Philadelphia Art Museum is a scene that would have once been impossible to film. Camera innovator Garrett Brown made it possible when he invented the Steadicam. The jack of all trades will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May.

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Sculptor Patrick Dougherty Installs Branch Masterpieces Around North Carolina and the World

8:51am April 30, 2013

by David Ford

Internationally acclaimed Chapel Hill based artist Patrick Dougherty is a sculptor who weaves branches into whirling, animated shapes that take on natural forms like tumbleweeds, wasp nests, or gusts of wind.

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New episodes of All My Children will be airing on Hulu starting Monday.

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Two Daytime Soaps Return, But Will Fans Follow Online?

3:15pm April 29, 2013

by Craig LeMoult

When ABC canceled the daytime soaps All My Children and One Life to Live in 2011, millions of fans suddenly found themselves left without their daily guilty pleasure. Both shows are relaunching Monday, but they won't be on any TV channel — the soaps are going online.

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Marc Maron, whose latest book is Attempting Normal, is also the author of The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life As a Reluctant Messiah.

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Marc Maron: A Life Fueled By 'Panic And Dread'

2:15pm April 29, 2013

The comedian turned his life around when he started "WTF with Marc Maron" out of his garage in 2009. He has parlayed the popularity of the podcast into a new television show called Maron, based on his life, as well as a new memoir.

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Brother and sister Rod Dreher and Ruthie Leming grew up in a small town in rural Louisiana. Dreher left the tightknit community to pursue a journalism career but returned home after Leming died of lung cancer in 2010.

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A Grieving Brother Finds Solace In His Sister's 'Small Town'

12:21pm April 29, 2013

by Debbie Elliott

Philadelphia journalist and author Rod Dreher moved back to his hometown in Louisiana after his sister died there in 2010, and adopted the community she left behind. His experiences led to the book The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life.

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Author Jo Maeder Talks About Her First Memoir and New Release "Opposite Attacks"

10:56am April 29, 2013

by David Ford

Jo Maeder is the Greensboro-based author of the Kindle Memoir Bestseller When I Married My Mother: A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters—and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo.

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The Summer of Beer and Whiskey by Edward Achorn.

Hard Hits, Hard Liquor In 'The Summer of Beer and Whiskey'

6:13pm April 27, 2013

by NPR Staff

In the 1880s, it took a German immigrant to change America's pastime forever. Chris Von der Ahe founded the St. Louis Browns and later helped form a new baseball league. Author Edward Achorn recalls baseball's early days in his new book.

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Poet Kazim Ali On Poetry In Everyday Life

3:57pm April 27, 2013

Poet Kazim Ali talks about poetry's importance in every day life for National Poetry Month. He is a contributing editor for AWP Writers Chronicle and founding editor of the small press, Nightboat Books.

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Visitors paid their respects at a makeshift memorial on Boylston Street on April 20, near the scene of the Boston Marathon bombings.

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'Horrific' And 'Surreal': The Words We Use To Bear Witness

3:33pm April 26, 2013

by Geoff Nunberg

After more than a week of gruesome media coverage, linguist Geoff Nunberg takes a close look at the words we use to describe events that mesmerize and horrify, that sensitize and desensitize, that transfix and repel us at the same time.

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Triad Arts Weekend: April 26, 2013

11:56am April 26, 2013

by David Ford

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