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Want to make your house a home? Keep away from trends

4:56pm July 10, 2023

There's a look we've come to expect when we check out real estate listings the perfect kitchen — streamlined, neutral — and there's pressure on homeowners to renovate to improve future salability.

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The New York State Capitol gets its first new statue since 1898: Ruth Bader Ginsberg

4:38pm July 10, 2023

by Jon Campbell

For the first time since 1898, a new face is being added to the grand staircase in the N.Y. capitol in Albany — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late U.S. Supreme Court justice born and raised in Brooklyn.

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'The Skull,' Jon Klassen's latest children's book, is darker than his previous ones

4:06pm July 10, 2023

by Julie Depenbrock

Author and illustrator Jon Klassen is best known for children's books like I Want My Hat Back and This is Not My Hat. His latest, The Skull, is an adaptation of a traditional folktale.

Celebrating the history of American music in 24 Hours

4:06pm July 10, 2023

The performance artist Taylor Mac is the feature of a new documentary. When we spoke to him in 2016, he had just completed a 24-hour show covering 24 decades of American popular music.

Kansas City Monarchs pitching great Satchel Paige warms up at New York's Yankee Stadium Aug. 2, 1942 for a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the New York Cuban Stars.

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The Negro League revolutionized baseball – MLB's new rules are part of its legacy

2:23pm July 10, 2023

by Dave Davies

In his film The League, Sam Pollard tells the story of the Negro National League: "They brought a different kind of style ... a kind of baseball which Major League Baseball is trying to bring back."

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Flora and Lillie painting by Stephen Towns

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Reynolda House Museum of American Art has acquired Stephen Towns’ “Flora and Lillie”

7:00am July 10, 2023

by David Ford

Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem has acquired a work by painter and fiber artist Stephen Towns. It comes from his recent exhibit, “Declaration & Resistance,” a collection of paintings and story quilts that explored the roles enslaved and free African American laborers played in building the region’s economy.

Rikkie Valerie Kollé was crowned Miss Netherlands over the weekend.

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Miss Netherlands crowns trans woman Rikkie Valerie Kollé

7:43pm July 09, 2023

by Emma Bowman

The 22-year-old Dutch model will be the second openly trans woman to participate in a Miss Universe pageant.

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Meet the artist who just turned 100 years old — and is finally having his moment

8:18am July 09, 2023

by Matthew Schuerman

Jonah Kinigstein was a painter on the verge of making it big in the 1950s but then the tastes of the art world changed. He never quit. He still hasn't - and he just turned 100.

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Coffee fruit dries in the late-afternoon sun on a farm in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.

Savor your coffee; someone probably lost sleep over it

8:00am July 09, 2023

by Nic Neves

When I get up and make my first cup of coffee, I do it like performing a sacred ritual. I know that those beans traveled far, and were cared for.

Country music tops the Billboard Hot 100, but it's complicated

9:50am July 08, 2023

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to NPR's Ann Powers and Marcus Dowling of The Tennessean about how two country songs sit atop the Billboard Hot 100, and the context for this moment.

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