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Judge orders Danish artist to repay museum after delivering blank canvases

7:24am September 19, 2023

A museum in Denmark loaned artist Jens Haaning about $76,400 to create two pieces of modern art. Instead, he submitted two blank canvases and titled the work Take the Money and Run.

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Clockwise from top left: Invisible Beauty, Foe, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 and Nyad.

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Here are the movies we can't wait to watch this fall

7:01am September 19, 2023

With no end in sight for the Hollywood strikes, we check in on the new releases for the fall. Our critics share their recommendations for more than 25 films coming out between now and Thanksgiving.

Joe Armstrong, the owner of WJBE, is shown outside the station. A Federal Communications Commission judge rejected an effort by the agency to strip the license of WJBE 99.7 FM/1040 AM — whose call letters pay tribute to the original WJBE's owner, the Godfather of Soul, James Brown — Knoxville's only Black-owned radio station.

FCC judge rules that Knoxville's only Black-owned radio station can keep its license

7:38pm September 18, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

Since 2022, WJBE has battled with the FCC over its owner, Joe Armstrong, being able to own a radio station following his conviction in 2016 for making a false statement on his tax return.

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How a stranger's words helped a grieving mother with her pain

5:41pm September 18, 2023

In 2016, Heather and her husband were expecting their fifth child. One day, she realized she did not feel the baby move. Her unsung hero taught her the importance of acknowledging someone else's pain.

A woman stands in front of an blank canvas hung up at the Kunsten Museum in Aalborg, Denmark, in 2021. Danish artist Jens Haaning sent the museum blank canvasses under the title Take the Money and Run.

A Danish artist has been ordered to repay a museum after delivering blank canvases

5:23pm September 18, 2023

by Laurel Wamsley

Denmark's Kunsten Museum loaned artist Jens Haaning about $76,400 to create two pieces of modern art. Instead, he submitted two blank canvases and titled the work Take the Money and Run.

Poet Laureate Ada Limón hopes to help people commune with nature in new project

4:40pm September 18, 2023

by Derek Operle

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón has announced her signature project titled " You Are Here," which hopes to engage people with poetry and nature.

Journalist Michael Schulman says Drew Barrymore's great aunt, Ethel Barrymore, also undermined union efforts in 1929.

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Drew Barrymore's Hollywood labor scuffle isn't the first for her family

4:25pm September 18, 2023

by Mandalit del Barco

The talk show host reversed course after intense backlash over the announced return of her show. Barrymore's great aunt, actor Ethel Barrymore, also undermined union efforts in the 1920s.

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Apple TV+'s 'Morning Show' is running better than ever as it enters Season 3

1:39pm September 18, 2023

by David Bianculli

The Morning Show enriches itself in its latest season by adding Jon Hamm to the cast and boring more deeply into a few major issues, including institutional racism and blackmail by computer hackers.

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Love, identity and ambition take center stage in 'Roaming'

10:38am September 18, 2023

by Julie Depenbrock

Roaming, spanning five days as old friends Dani and Zoe reunite on their first break from college, is the first adult graphic novel from Caldecott-winning cousins Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki.

The cover of The Care and Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls, originally published in 1998.

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'The Care and Keeping of You,' American Girl's guide to puberty, turns 25

6:41am September 18, 2023

by Tilda Wilson

The Care and Keeping of You from American Girl eased the adolescent anxieties of the millennial and Gen Z girls who read it. Now the book is marking its 25th anniversary.

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