Arts

As newspapers around the country struggle with declining subscription rates and smaller staffs, passionate, long-form digital storytelling is creating new ways of delivering richly detailed reporting.

Arts

Great Long-Form Journalism, Just Clicks Away

11:12am April 15, 2013

by David Folkenflik

In the age of digital media, many newspapers have been forced to gut their staffs, leading some media analysts to sound the death knell for enterprise reporting and long-form storytelling. Not so fast, say the craft's most passionate advocates.

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Paper Lantern Theatre Presents "A Perfect Likeness"

10:57am April 15, 2013

by David Ford

Daniel Rover Singer's new play A Perfect Likeness is a one-act comedy that explores the psyches of Charles Dodson (better known by his pen name Lewis Caroll) and Charles Dickens.

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High Point Arts Market: Establishing a Tradition

6:17am April 15, 2013

If David Briggs' idea comes to complete fruition, High Point is just beginning to establish a future arts tradition.

Street Artists Protest Status Quo In Haiti

4:52pm April 14, 2013

by Reese Erlich

Haiti's Resistance Artists create street sculptures — huge metal configurations that speak to the devastation following the 2010 earthquake and the stark separation between the country's rich and poor. Reese Erlich

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A single trumpet from a baby elephant at the San Francisco Zoo was used for every single T. Rex roar in Jurassic Park.

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Jurassic Bark: How Sound Design Changed Our Imaginations

8:15pm April 13, 2013

by Becky Sullivan

When Gary Rydstrom recorded and mixed together a set of noises for the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, he never guessed he'd inform our ideas about them for decades to come.

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'First American Ballet Star' Soared To Fame With 'Firebird'

6:09pm April 13, 2013

by Joel Rose

One of America's first great prima ballerinas has died. Maria Tallchief brought life to The Nutcracker and Firebird at the New York City Ballet. She died Thursday at the age of 88. NPR's Joel Rose has this remembrance.

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Books
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Lemony Snicket Dons A Trenchcoat

1:17pm April 12, 2013

In Who Could That Be at This Hour?, a prequel to A Series of Unfortunate Events, Daniel Handler satirizes pulp mysteries and uncovers the parallels between detective fiction and childhood. In both, he says, an outsider is trying to make his way in a mysteriously corrupt world.

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Triad Arts Weekend: April 12, 2013

12:50pm April 12, 2013

by David Ford

Celebrating celebrity dancers, saying hello to Alfred Hitchcock, and merry-making with Mozart - all this and more on this week's Triad Arts Weekend.

Venezuelan author Romulo Gallegos (1884-1969), circa 1950.

Oil, Chavez And Telenovelas: The Rise Of The Venezuelan Novel

10:55am April 12, 2013

by Marcela Valdes

Although Venezuela has a rich literary culture, its writers remain largely unknown outside of the country. Marcela Valdes traces the intersection of literature and politics in the large Caribbean nation, showing the forces that have kept Venezuelan writers from getting the praise they deserve.

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Take the Lead Dance Benefits Bethesda Center for the Homeless

9:47am April 12, 2013

by David Ford

Take the Lead Winston-Salem is a local group of daring, high-profile community leaders who are paired with dance professionals for an evening of dynamic and entertaining performances.

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