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During World War II, "Canteen Girl" Phyllis Jeanne Creore spoke and sang to the troops and their loved ones for 15 minutes every week on NBC radio.

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WWII 'Canteen Girl' Kept Troops Company From Afar

6:07am December 18, 2012

by Susan Stamberg

For 15 minutes each week, Phyllis Jeanne Creore spoke and sang to the servicemen and their loved ones in her NBC radio broadcast. Now 96 years old, the beloved "Canteen Girl" shares her memories — and some personal wartime letters, too.

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was No. 1 at the box office this past weekend. But a No. 1 ranking means less about whether a movie will be profitable â and more about a fleeting cultural moment.

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No. 1 At The Box Office? Four Reasons Why It Doesn't Matter

5:19pm December 17, 2012

by Sami Yenigun

Every weekend, movies compete to be No. 1 at the box office. But a No. 1 ranking means less about whether a movie will be profitable — and more about a fleeting cultural moment.

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Awake the White & Wint'ry Queen

5:11pm December 17, 2012

by David Ford

Awake the White & Wint'ry Queen is a winter solstice extravaganza unlike any production you've ever seen or heard before: computer graphics, elaborate costumes, body painting, theatre, dance, and driving it all forward an evening full of gripping original music by artist, composer Scott Fray.

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St. Paul's Episcopal Church Presents A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

12:58pm December 17, 2012

by David Ford

On Sunday afternoon, December 23 at 5:30pm, St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem will celebrate a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in the nave.

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Barbra Streisand is Joyce Brewster in The Guilt Trip. The multitalented performer has won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony — a feat achieved by fewer than a dozen artists.

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'Guilt Trip': Streisand On Songs, Films And Family

12:27pm December 17, 2012

In her new movie, singer, actor, writer, director and producer Barbra Streisand plays a well-meaning if overbearing Jewish mom. The star says her own mother both encouraged her talents and was jealous of them.

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When You Believe, There is Hope

2:43pm December 15, 2012

The Beatles look out of the Magical Mystery Tour coach skylight, on location in England in September 1967.

Behind The Scenes Of The Beatles' 'Magical Mystery Tour'

3:01pm December 14, 2012

by David Bianculli

A new documentary on PBS about the making of the Beatles' 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour features outtakes from the original and new interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. TV critic David Bianculli calls the film "wonderfully thorough."

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Triad Arts Weekend: December 14, 2012

10:42am December 14, 2012

by David Ford

The Nutcracker, originally choreographed by

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Tony Griffey and Friends in Concert

11:53pm December 13, 2012

by David Ford

Four-time Grammy Award-winning tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, and acclaimed concert guitarist, recording artist, arranger and University of NC School of the Arts faculty Joseph Pecoraro recently stopped by WFDD's Studio A for a live preview of their new holiday CD This Little Light.

Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) takes a fantastic adventure across Middle-earth in Peter Jackson's prequel to his Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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A 'Hobbit,' Off On His Unhurried Journey

8:01pm December 13, 2012

by Bob Mondello

Peter Jackson takes his audience back to Middle-earth in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, set in a time before the Lord of the Rings films. NPR's Bob Mondello says that where the Rings films struggled with what to omit, The Hobbit labors to justify its three-hour running time.

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