Arts

Arts

Jay Leno: 'Tonight' Was About 'Trying To Get Johnny To Laugh'

1:53pm August 27, 2013

In a 1996 interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross, Leno recalled his rocky Tonight Show debut: "I got heckled my first show ... but luckily I had worked a lot of clubs so I could deal with it, and Johnny [Carson] seemed to like that."

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Letterman And 'Tonight' Vet Go Behind The Scenes Of Late Night

10:43am August 27, 2013

Fresh Air kicks off its late night TV theme week with a 1981 David Letterman interview, in which the host describes how late night TV changed the comedy business, and a 1988 interview with one-time Tonight Show executive producer Fred de Cordova.

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Winston-Salem Gets a New (Mobile!) Art Supply Store

9:40am August 27, 2013

by Bethany Chafin

Artists work with their hands, but they also depend on and work with a variety of tools of the trade as well.

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The Humble and Wondrous World of American Still Life Paintings

8:46am August 27, 2013

by David Ford

Reynolda House Museum of American Art presents the exhibition Things Wondrous & Humble: American Still Life through December 8th, in the Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery.

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Drowning In Zucchini? 3 Recipes Can Help

3:57pm August 26, 2013

by NPR Staff

Zucchini is the gift that keeps on giving — until it's really not such a great gift anymore. We asked three cooks which recipes they turn to when they're tired of the prodigious vegetables.

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New River Blues Festival 2013 Takes Place This Weekend

8:42am August 26, 2013

Got any holiday weekend plans yet? How does dancing in a mountain meadow by a sparkling river to world-class blues sound?

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Fantasy sports attract an estimated 36+ million players in the U.S. and Canada.

Quitting Your Job For Fantasy Football

6:04pm August 25, 2013

Drew Dinkmeyer was an investment analyst. Pretty steady job, right? He left that job - in this economic climate - to become a full-time fantasy sports player.

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Books
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'The Blessing Cup': Polacco And Her Family Of Storytellers

11:17am August 25, 2013

by NPR Staff

Patricia Polacco has written and illustrated more than 90 picture books, and she says her early life had a profound effect on her work. In her latest children's book, The Blessing Cup, Polacco takes readers back to her grandparents' time in Russia.

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Artwork from Roth's solo exhibition "Welcome to Detroit," on display at Eastern Michigan University in 2012.

Hacker-Artist's Mantra: 'Fun Makes The Politics Go Down'

11:17am August 25, 2013

by NPR Staff

Evan Roth knows how to get a rise out of the people and organizations he targets. Over his career, the Michigan-born "hacker-artist" has taken on Google, the Transportation Safety Administration, and — most bravely of all — Justin Bieber's fans.

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A group of nurses at a Red Cross Hospital during World War I.

Books
Arts

Sisterly Conflict Against A Great War Backdrop In 'Daughters Of Mars'

11:39am August 24, 2013

by NPR Staff

Thomas Keneally's new novel, The Daughters of Mars, follows two Australian sisters who become nurses during World War I. Naomi and Sally Durance share a guilty secret, but they don't share any sisterly closeness — until the horrors of war begin to bind them together.

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