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Terry McMillan is the best-selling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back

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McMillan 'Asks' Readers To Empathize With A Family's Problems

11:28am September 14, 2013

by NPR Staff

Terry McMillan, the best-selling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back, tells NPR's Scott Simon that she writes because she wishes she were a magician. She shows off her tricks in Who Asked You?, a novel with many narrators — including a woman named BJ and her husband, children and grandkids.

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Art Spiegelman Reflects On 60 Years Of Pen And Ink

11:28am September 14, 2013

by NPR Staff

Art Spiegelman's new book, Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps, collects comics from a six-decade career, from his early, self-published works to his famous New Yorker covers. Spiegelman tells NPR's Scott Simon he knew in third grade that he wanted to be a cartoonist.

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A Musical 'Train Ride to Perugia', FaithAction International, and Theatre in the Triad

1:27pm September 13, 2013

by David Ford

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Kreplach, a special Jewish holiday dish that can be made essentially out of leftovers.

The Secret To Making It Through A Yom Kippur Fast? Kreplach

12:11pm September 13, 2013

by Deena Prichep

Jews across the world are sitting down to a big meal before Friday's Yom Kippur fast. And many of them are eating kreplach. Some say these strange-sounding-yet-good-tasting dumplings are a holiday meditation on our inner and outer selves. Or maybe they're just a delicious example of the peasant cooking of Eastern Europeans.

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'A Place for Us' Multicultural Celebration Benefits FaithAction International House

8:39am September 13, 2013

by David Ford

During the past ten years, North Carolina has experienced a tremendous influx of immigrants, bringing new ethnic, cultural and religious diversity with them. FaithAction International House is working to make Greensboro a model multicultural, interfaith and immigrant-friendly city, and to share our experiences here in the Triad with other communities across the country and around the world.

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In These 'Gardens,' The Tree Rings Of The Radical Left

5:48pm September 12, 2013

by Mohsin Hamid

Jonathan Lethem's Dissident Gardens sketches a history of the American left that is at once intimate and expansive. Out of the lives of a few conflicted characters, reviewer Mohsin Hamid explains, the book lends depth and emotion to events that affected millions.

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The Internet's 'Twerk' Effect Makes Dictionaries Less Complete

5:45pm September 12, 2013

by Geoff Nunberg

When dictionaries add trendy words like "twerk," they're prioritizing the fleeting language habits of the young, says Geoff Nunberg. And our fascination with novel words tends to eclipse subtle changes in the meanings of old ones — "which are often more consequential," he says.

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Economist Tyler Cowen believes that income inequality in America is only increasing. His new book is called Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation.

Tired Of Inequality? One Economist Says It'll Only Get Worse

9:57am September 12, 2013

by NPR Staff

In his new book, Average Is Over, Tyler Cowen predicts that America will become a new, more creative meritocracy. Though he believes a rise in income inequality is inevitable, he hopes that "happiness inequality isn't going up in the same way."

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Winston-Salem Symphony Presents First Classic Series Concert

8:31am September 12, 2013

by David Ford

Sunday afternoon, September 15th at 3:00pm, in the Stevens Center, Maestro Robert Moody will lead the

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Arts Council Reveals Plan for Downtown Theatre District in Winston-Salem

3:44pm September 11, 2013

by Bethany Chafin

Earlier this year, the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County received a $30,000 State Arts Council SmART Initiative grant. And on September 10th, the Arts Council released its report and proposal for art-driven economic development in downtown Winston-Salem. The report lays out a conceptual plan for a Downtown Theatre District centered on Spruce Street between Fourth and Second Streets.