Arts

Jake Tapper Takes A Host Chair At CNN

3:24pm March 14, 2013

The veteran reporter has recently moved from ABC News to CNN where he now hosts his own show and serves as Chief Washington Correspondent. In Part II of this interview, Tapper talks about fact-checking the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and blow back from the White House after asking tough questions.

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How Dictionary Searches Define Readers

2:44pm March 14, 2013

After Vice President Joe Biden used the term "malarkey" in a 2012 debate, searches for the word in online dictionaries surged. Now that dictionaries are readily available with a mouse click or finger tap, dictionary publishers can track the correlation between word searches and current events.

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Composer Kenneth Frazelle and "A Book of Days"

10:31am March 14, 2013

North Carolina composer and University of North Carolina School of the Arts professor Kenneth Frazelle has written works for an extensive list of world-renowned performers including cellist Yo-Yo Ma, soprano Dawn Upshaw and choreographer Bill T. Jones just to name a few.

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Water pouring from a bottle into a glass.

Books
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A Young Man Gets 'Filthy Rich' Boiling, Bottling Tap Water

1:16pm March 13, 2013

Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia explores life in the modern megalopolis and the growing scarcity of clean water. In search of his fortune, Hamid's protagonist lands on a scam to boil and sell tap water as bottled mineral water in a novel that takes inspiration from self-help books.

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Cellist Julian Schwarz Performs in Greensboro with Music for a Great Space

10:57am March 13, 2013

by David Ford

NAXOS recording artist, 22-year-old cellist Julian Schwarz made his orchestral debut at the age of 11 playing the Saint-Saens Concerto with the Seattle Symphony led by his father Gerard Schwarz.

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Backstage At The Bolshoi Ballet

4:29pm March 12, 2013

The Bolshoi Ballet dancer suspected in the acid attack on the theater's artistic director could keep his job if a court acquits him, according to the Bolshoi's director. New Yorker editor David Remnick provides a glimpse into the hypercompetitive world of the famed Russian ballet.

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'Lean In': Not Much Of A Manifesto, But Still A Win For Women

2:19pm March 12, 2013

by Maureen Corrigan

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has drawn a lot of attention with her "sort of a feminist manifesto" Lean In. Critic Maureen Corrigan finds that much of the book is bland, but toward the end, Sandberg's intellectual charisma breaks through.

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"Cutting Ribbon, Man In Wheelchair, Paintings (Version #2), 1988" by John Baldessari.

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For John Baldessari, Conceptual Art Means Serious Mischief

2:14pm March 12, 2013

by Susan Stamberg

Artist John Baldessari is an iconic figure in some modern art circles. His conceptual pieces — black-and-white photographs covered with colorful dots, a blue sky painted on a museum floor — can provoke smiles. But serious ideas lie beneath the surface.

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Salisbury Symphony Gives "Grace and Grandeur"

11:06am March 12, 2013

It's unusual to attend a concert during which, in the middle of the program, is a rarely performed work by the great French master Claude Debussy.

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Remembering Lillian Cahn, Creator Of The Coach Handbag

5:36pm March 11, 2013

by Audie Cornish

Cahn's inspiration for the high-end leather totes came from her experience delivering noodles during the Depression. "One of her suggestions early on was: Why can't we make a shopping bag, but out of leather?" recalls her husband, Miles Cahn. Lillian Cahn died March 4 at age 89.

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