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Does Poetry Still Matter? Yes Indeed, Says NPR NewsPoet

11:08am April 07, 2013

by NPR Staff

April is famously the cruelest month — according to the poem — but it's also the month we celebrate poetry. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith says we all need poetry, and even those of us who don't write poems can still learn how to see and hear the world through poetry.

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The Extraordinary Lives Of Ordinary North Koreans

4:55pm April 06, 2013

Amid a cascade of headline news from North Korea, often forgotten are the 24 million average citizens living under the most authoritarian regime in the world. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Barbara Demick of the Los Angeles Times on the lives of ordinary North Koreans.

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Winston-Salem Symphony: "Music For Lovers"

9:30pm April 05, 2013

Our 2012-2013 local performance broadcast series continues Sunday, May 5th at 8:00 pm.

Bill Glucroft, an American Jew living in Berlin, chats with visitors from his box in the most controversial portion of the Berlin Jewish Museum's exhibition "The Whole Truth."

Jewishness On Display: 'Truth' By Way Of Discomfort

9:16pm April 05, 2013

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

A new exhibit in Berlin's Jewish Museum is intentionally provocative. The point, one curator says, is to "get people talking about how they perceive Jews, particularly in Germany today." At the center of the controversy is a display in which a Jewish person sits inside a glass showcase and answers questions from visitors.

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Remembering Robert Ward

3:44pm April 05, 2013

by David Ford

Robert Ward, a former chancellor of UNC School of the Arts and a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, died early Wednesday at his home in Durham after a period of failing health. He was 95.

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Triad Arts Weekend: April 5, 2013

2:55pm April 05, 2013

by David Ford

It's a music-lover's paradise from beginning to end today on the show.

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The iconic Chicago photographer Art Shay took portraits of presidents, prizefighters, prose poets — and in the person of Roger Ebert, at least one Pulitzer-winning critic.

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Roger Ebert In Review: A 'Fresh Air' Survey

1:10pm April 05, 2013

Fresh Air remembers film critic Roger Ebert, who died Thursday, with a roundup of interviews from our archive — one with Ebert alone, one with him and his late partner Gene Siskel, and two in which Ebert interviews iconic directors. Plus, critic-at-large John Powers discusses Ebert's 2011 memoir Life Itself.

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Triad Stage's Innovative Production of My Fair Lady

11:13am April 05, 2013

by David Ford

'A Lovely Feeling': Celebrating Older Women With Fabulous Style

8:50am April 05, 2013

by Ina Jaffe

The fashion industry is sometimes criticized for unrealistic portrayals of young women. But if you're a woman older than 60, there are almost no portrayals, realistic or otherwise. Now a fashion blog called Advanced Style has made stars of some of these older fashionistas, including a 93-year-old who says the spotlight makes her feel like she's "part of the world."

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Bosom Pals, an iconic sculpture by Vasily Konovalenko, was created between 1981 and 1984. It shows three revelers out for a night of drinking and song. Konovalenko loved this scene so much that he repeated it in other works — including enamels and bronz

Emigre Artist Sculpted Exquisite Gems Of Russian Folk Life

8:20pm April 04, 2013

by Corey Flintoff

Semiprecious stones were the medium of choice for Vasily Konovalenko, a Soviet ballet set designer turned sculptor. His masterful workmanship captured Russian characters, from Cossacks and drunks to country folk and czarist henchmen. He fell afoul of the authorities and left Russia for the U.S. in the 1980s.

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