Arts & Life

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Decoding The Food And Drink On A Day Of The Dead Altar

12:22pm October 30, 2014

by Karen Castillo Farfán

The Mexican tradition celebrates the dead and welcomes their return to the land of the living once a year. Enticing them to make the trip is where the food, drink and musical offerings come in.

Jean-Luc Godard's dog Roxy appears in his new film, Goodbye To Language.

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In 'Goodbye To Language,' Jean-Luc Godard Seeks New Ways To Make Pictures

12:17pm October 30, 2014

by Mark Jenkins

At 83, the Franco-Swiss auteur has made another complex visual poem, this time using 3D technology. The film bubbles with invention, thanks to jittery editing and a jumble of photographic styles.

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'The Great Invisible' Views An Environmental Catastrophe From Many Sides

11:55am October 30, 2014

by Tomas Hachard

Margaret Brown's soft-spoken documentary examines the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The film recognizes an instinct toward simplistic polarization, but pushes gently against it.

Poet Carolyn Forche stands with her friend and mentor Galway Kinnell (right) during a trip to Japan to attend the Asian Writers Congress in 1983.

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Book News: Remembering Poet Galway Kinnell, Whose Song Said Everything

10:47am October 30, 2014

by Colin Dwyer

The Pulitzer Prize winner has died at the age of 87. In his deceptively simple poetry and in his activism, Kinnell sought to broaden his audience, even while grappling with difficult themes.

It's partly because of bookshelves like these — and their digital equivalents — that publishers have had a positive open to 2014.

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Book News: Young Adult And Kids' Lit Boost E-Book Revenue

9:19am October 30, 2014

by Colin Dwyer

From January to July, e-book revenue grew 7.5 percent compared with the same period last year. Also: R.L. Stine tweets a horror, and poets slip into something a bit sexier.

Jean-Luc Godard's dog, Roxy, is prominently featured in Goodbye to Language, wandering through the countryside, conversing with the lake and the river.

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At 83, Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard Makes The Leap To 3-D

6:16pm October 29, 2014

by Pat Dowell

Godard, who has been making films for more than half a century, shared the 2014 Jury Prize at Cannes for his 3-D film, Goodbye To Language. He likes 3-D, he says, because "there aren't any rules."

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The Battle For Dreamland, Revisited In 'Nemo'

12:53pm October 29, 2014

by Etelka Lehoczky

A lavishly produced new tribute to Winsor McCay's Little Nemo comics gathers dozens of today's artists to revisit Slumberland. Critic Etelka Lehoczky says the book is beautiful but unchallenging.

Carmen de Lavallade performs in As I Remember It.

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At 83, Dancer Carmen De Lavallade Looks Back At A Life Spent Onstage

12:50pm October 29, 2014

by Elizabeth Blair

De Lavallade's husband of 59 years, dancer Geoffrey Holder, died on Oct. 5. "He was my biggest fan and I was the same way with him," she says. De Lavallade's one-woman show is called As I Remember It.

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Sourdough loaves made by Fromartz with a bolted white flour from Anson Mills in South Carolina that he says reminded him of the wheat he'd tasted in southern France.

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To Make Bread, Watch The Dough, Not The Recipe

10:29am October 29, 2014

by Dan Charles

One man's quest for the perfect loaf took him to Paris, Berlin, California and Kansas. What he learned can't easily be captured in words. It's a feeling in your fingers that comes from experience.

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Amy Poehler plays Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation, which will air its final season next year. Poehler says, "It's a privilege in television to be able to have a proper goodbye."

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A Candid Memoir From Comedian Amy Poehler? 'Yes Please'

10:23am October 29, 2014

Poehler joins Fresh Air's Terry Gross to talk about fighting the body image "demon," being a "world-class snooper" and how she was once told that she had a "great face for wigs."

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