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DALLAS, March 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weller has appointed Tawanna "TJ" Stewart to Senior Vice President, TX, where she will be responsible for implementing the firm's growth objectives in the State.
Within the role, Stewart will focus on growing Weller's existing client base while identifying new client opportunities ... | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/weller-appoints-newest-senior-vice-president-tawanna-tj-stewart-in-dallas-texas-301493287.html | 2022-03-02T02:11:00 | en | 0.951671 |
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading multifamily real estate developer Wood Partners announced today the official grand opening of its latest luxury residential community, Alta Raintree, located in Scottsdale, Arizona.
This new luxury apartment community is situated on E Raintree Drive in North Scot... | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wood-partners-debuts-newest-luxury-development-in-sought-after-north-scottsdale-area-301493271.html | 2022-03-02T02:11:06 | en | 0.944032 |
World Woman Foundation Unveils Its Second Edition of World Woman Hour: a 60-Minute Digital Series Spotlighting 60 Female Leaders of Change
#myLEADhER Campaign Honors 60 Women Who Are Leading Boldly, Breaking Stereotypes, and Fighting Inequality for a Sustainable, Healthier, Thriving World For Women and Girls
NEW YORK, ... | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/world-woman-foundation-unveils-its-second-edition-of-world-woman-hour-a-60-minute-digital-series-spotlighting-60-female-leaders-of-change-301493296.html | 2022-03-02T02:11:12 | en | 0.932717 |
TORONTO -- A deafening roar greeted the Toronto Raptors during the team introductions on Tuesday — a sound they hadn't heard in two-and-a-half months.
The Raptors were permitted a full crowd of 19,800 at Scotiabank Arena for the first time since Dec. 13, after the Ontario government accelerated the lifting of restricti... | https://www.cp24.com/sports/toronto-raptors-news/toronto-raptors-welcomed-by-roaring-crowd-after-capacity-limits-lifted-in-ontario-1.5801769 | 2022-03-02T02:12:27 | en | 0.982625 |
NPR's Scott Simon interviews NPR's Bob Edwards, who is leaving as host of Morning Edition after nearly 25 years. They discuss Edwards' 12-year radio frienship with the late sports announcer Red Barber and some of his other favorite moments on the show.
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NPR's Bob Mondello reviews Sweet Sixteen, a Scottish film about a tough teenager determined to raise enough money to buy a gift for his mother upon her release from prison -- a mobile home near the water.
Copyright 2003 NPR
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Pulitzer prize-winning author Jane Smiley is best known for her novels A Thousand Acres and Moo. But she's also an avid owner and breeder of thoroughbred horses -- beautiful and intimidating creatures raised to run fast.
Smiley's new nonfiction book A Year at the Races chronicles her lifelong love affair with horses. N... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-04-30/jane-smiley-a-year-at-the-races | 2022-03-02T02:12:46 | en | 0.940563 |
What would you do if your mother left this message on your answering machine?: "I'm just thinking, if God forbid you needed to get out of your apartment real fast, maybe you ought to get yourself a parachute."
Or this one: "I hope you're still taking your allergy shots. I don't like that sneeze. [A friend who was aller... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-01/amys-answering-machine-more-messages | 2022-03-02T02:12:46 | en | 0.975371 |
Fifty years ago, a young recording engineer named Leon Kagarise indulged his passion for country music by dragging his bulky tape recorder to outdoor music festivals in rural Maryland.
His collection now includes thousands of live recordings from the golden years of country and bluegrass music.
Kagarise captured rising... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-01/leon-kagarises-music-collection | 2022-03-02T02:12:52 | en | 0.978827 |
NPR's Liane Hansen has the second half of her conversation with the authors of two new books on the use of American power in the world. Niall Ferguson is Herzog Professor of Financial History at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He's the author of Colossus: The Price of America's Empire. Walter Russe... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-01/americas-modern-empire-part-ii | 2022-03-02T02:12:52 | en | 0.920693 |
Forty years after the New York Philharmonic spurned Carnegie Hall for its rival, the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, the orchestra announces it will return to Carnegie. But the merger of the two prestigious institutions faces potential legal entanglements with Lincoln Center. Jeff Lunden reports.
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Award-winning historian Ron Chernow releases Alexander Hamilton, his new biography of the first secretary of the Treasury, a man who Chernow calls the most underrated of the Founding Fathers.
'Alexander Hamilton' traces Hamilton's rise from a poverty-stricken childhood on the West Indies island of Nevis to his role as ... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-01/comprehensive-biography-alexander-hamilton | 2022-03-02T02:12:58 | en | 0.930567 |
Pat Dowell profiles Canadian Director Guy Maddin, whose new movie, Pages from a Virgin's Diary, is a screen adaptation of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's production of Dracula. Maddin describes his movie making technique as "primitive," because he strives to give his story telling a dream-like effect. He was motivated to m... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-02/film-director-guy-maddin | 2022-03-02T02:13:04 | en | 0.966353 |
By the middle of the 20th century, Ram Bhagan -- once home to the mistresses of rich British and Bengalis -- had developed into the main red light district of Calcutta (now Kolkata). And the streets of the tiny slum were as dangerous as any in the world.
But as independent producer Julian Crandall Hollick notes in the ... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-01/ram-bhagan-salvation-in-the-arts | 2022-03-02T02:13:04 | en | 0.968385 |
Shortly after Henry Ford introduced the Model T in 1908, America and its landscape began to change in dramatic ways. The popularity of an affordable, mass-produced automobile spawned the first road atlas, the first motel, the first shopping center, and the first parking garage, says Douglas Brinkley, who has just compl... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-02/henry-fords-wheels-for-the-world | 2022-03-02T02:13:10 | en | 0.987642 |
For novelist and poet Sandra Cisneros, language is not just a means to communicate, it's a medium textured by words and sounds. Cisneros grew up in a multilingual home: She spoke to her mother in English and her father in Spanish. When she was a little girl she didn't realize they were two separate languages. To her ea... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-02/intersections-when-languages-collide | 2022-03-02T02:13:10 | en | 0.986294 |
Production is underway in Texas for a new movie that may explode long-standing myths surrounding the 1836 siege of the Alamo. The film aims to set history straight by portraying the faults of such Alamo heroes as David Crockett and telling the story in part through the eyes of Mexican soldiers. NPR's John Burnett repor... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-02/new-film-aims-to-rewrite-history-of-the-alamo | 2022-03-02T02:13:17 | en | 0.906206 |
Loretta Lynn and her songs are at the heart of country music. For more than 40 years, she's been singing and writing songs that are honest and timeless. Much of her music takes the vantage point of a strong woman not to be trifled with, like those in "Fist City," "You Ain't Woman Enough (to Take my Man)," and "Don't Co... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-02/loretta-lynns-van-lear-rose-with-jack-white | 2022-03-02T02:13:17 | en | 0.975376 |
City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, a focal point of American alternative culture, marks its 50th anniversary on June 8. City Lights was founded in 1953 by Beat movement icon Lawrence Ferlinghetti, now Poet Laureate of San Francisco, and Peter D. Martin. The store's regulars included Jack Kerouac, author of the nov... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-05/commentary-city-lights-turns-50 | 2022-03-02T02:13:23 | en | 0.90736 |
The band Modest Mouse has released their first album in four years. The group often referred to as the perfect indie-rock band suddenly finds itself enjoying pop success that had eluded it for 10 years. Mikel Jollett has a review of their new CD, Good News for People who Love Bad News.
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After four years of a record industry war on illegal file-sharing, more people than ever are flouting the rules and swapping music online. The Recording Industry Association of America is trying various tactics to end the practice. NPR's Laura Sydell reports.
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An exhibit in San Francisco celebrates all things Art Deco, including furniture, fashion, jewelry, architecture and industrial design from the early 20th century. NPR's Susan Stamberg tours the show.
One of the show's stars is a large black lacquer cabinet incised with slim silver lines. The French cabinet debuted to b... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-03/celebrating-the-timeless-glamour-of-art-deco | 2022-03-02T02:13:29 | en | 0.925744 |
From the Maori culture of New Zealand comes Whale Rider, a film with an appealing 11-year-old central character. She's seeking to follow in her father's footsteps as tribal chieftain. Her grandfather is skeptical. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a review.
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On Thursday, Friends airs its last episode. The long-running Frasier is also winding to a close. Both shows have been keys to NBC's success and the network has been looking for replacements for years. But there hasn't been a breakout sitcom on any network hit since Will and Grace had its debut six seasons back. Some ev... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-03/fate-of-tv-sitcoms-after-friends | 2022-03-02T02:13:35 | en | 0.979578 |
In Washington, several aspiring conductors get a chance to learn from a maestro. Leonard Slatkin, music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, offers his young charges advice ranging from clothing tips to the physicality of the job. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.
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The Walt Disney Co. is blocking its Miramax division from distributing Fahrenheit 9/11, a new documentary from filmmaker Michael Moore highly critical of the Bush administration.
The film blasts Bush's actions before and after Sept. 11, 2001. It also describes financial connections between the Bush family and prominent... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-04/disney-blocks-distribution-of-film-critical-of-bush | 2022-03-02T02:13:41 | en | 0.917355 |
Bookstores around the country anticipate high interest in Hillary Rodham Clinton's new book and gear up for heavy crowds. Simon & Schuster, which is paying Clinton $8 million, has printed 1 million copies of Living History. Hear Nora Rawlinson, editor-in-chief of Publishers Weekly.
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A spate of films that take critical, satirical looks at corporate and political power are set to hit theaters this spring, many aiming to reach the wider audiences at multiplexes. New films in the genre include Supersize Me, The Yes Men and The Corporation. The Disney Corporation is blocking its Miramax division from d... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-04/political-documentaries-seek-wider-audience | 2022-03-02T02:13:47 | en | 0.905566 |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A 37-year-old Austin man was arrested Tuesday after federal agents accused him of civil disorder and related offenses in last year’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, officials said.
Geoffrey Samuel Shough, 37, was arrested in Austin, according to a Justice Department statement.
Video showed Shough among t... | https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Austin-man-accused-of-civil-disorder-in-2021-16969584.php | 2022-03-02T02:13:49 | en | 0.965324 |
The musical Hairspray dominates the 2003 Tony Awards, winning eight awards including best score, book, costume design and director. The performance, which opened on Broadway last year, is the stage version of the 1988 John Waters movie. It focuses on an overweight teenage girl and explores social and racial attitudes o... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-08/hairspray-sweeps-tony-awards | 2022-03-02T02:13:53 | en | 0.905242 |
Edward R. Murrow brought rooftop reports of the Blitz of London into America's living rooms before this country entered World War II. After the war, Murrow and his team of reporters brought news to the new medium of television.
On his legendary CBS weekly show, See it Now, the first television news magazine, Murrow too... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-05/edward-r-murrow-broadcasting-history | 2022-03-02T02:13:54 | en | 0.987393 |
Little League International, a local coach and his wife, and a Texas hunting club are now being sued in federal court as an investigation continues into whether the coach sexually abused minors on his team.
But instead of focusing just on the man allegedly at fault, the suit aims to change the way the league and others... | https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Beaumont-law-firm-files-suit-against-Little-League-16968909.php | 2022-03-02T02:13:55 | en | 0.976983 |
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is the designated survivor for Biden's State of the Union
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is the designated survivor for President Joe Biden's first State of the Union address, CNN has learned from a source, staying away from the U.S. Capitol in an undisclosed location during Biden's r... | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/designated-survivor-state-of-the-union-2022/39288420 | 2022-03-02T02:13:56 | en | 0.957277 |
Americans are some of the fattest people in the world -- and McDonald's often serves as the fast-food scapegoat for the country's super-sized bodies. One filmmaker decided to eat nothing but McDonald's for 30 days -- and film it all. The result is Super Size Me. NPR's Michele Norris talks with Morgan Spurlock, the star... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-05/extreme-un-diet-super-size-me | 2022-03-02T02:14:00 | en | 0.950167 |
The latest show from artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney is a massive exhibit that fills Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. A New York Times critic has dubbed Barney the greatest artist of his generation. But the new issue of Artforum says the Cremaster Cycle show may prove to be Barney's Waterloo. Jad Abumrad of member st... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-08/matthew-barneys-guggenheim-show-ignites-controversy | 2022-03-02T02:14:00 | en | 0.947885 |
HOUSTON (AP) — Issues related to media publicity and a gag order as well as a concern over a lack diversity among attorneys representing those killed or injured during last year’s deadly Astroworld music festival were discussed during a court hearing on Tuesday.
The hearing was the first time lawyers handling the nearl... | https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Gag-order-diversity-discussed-at-Astroworld-16969755.php | 2022-03-02T02:14:02 | en | 0.981271 |
year. My border was it's a Polynesian national motive ice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. We are here today in the dark shadow cast by Putin's war. A war we did not provoke a war. We did not start an outrageous invasion of a sovereign independent state on behalf of the european parliament. I condemn the Russian military ... | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/russia-banned-from-us-airspace/39288165 | 2022-03-02T02:14:06 | en | 0.964166 |
An unidentified buyer paid $104.1 million Wednesday for a Pablo Picasso painting sold at Sotheby's in New York -- a record price for a work of art sold at auction. "Boy with a Pipe" was painted in 1905 and dates from Picasso's Rose Period. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and reporter David D'Arcy.
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Host Bob Edwards talks with music commentator Miles Hoffman about the history and beauty of Moravian church music, which was first played in America during colonial times. A Moravian music festival is now under way in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. {Music played in the segment:
Most of the music in this piece, includin... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-08/moravian-music | 2022-03-02T02:14:06 | en | 0.907975 |
Thursday night marks the end of the NBC hit show Friends. After 10 seasons of widespread popularity, the comedy will now be seen only on syndicated reruns. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with James Poniewozik of Time magazine.
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Thursday night marks the end of the NBC hit show Friends. After 10 seasons of w... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-05/the-end-of-the-friends-era | 2022-03-02T02:14:12 | en | 0.868847 |
In the latest movie from Chinese director Chen Kaige, a young violin prodigy moves to the big city with his father. As Beth Accomondo of KPBS in San Diego explains, the movie is about music, family and the conflicts between "old" and "modern" China.
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US braces for refugee crisis as thousands flee war-torn Ukraine
Sizable Ukrainian populations in the U.S. and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are pressuring the Biden administration to act on the growing refugee crisis as a result of Russia's invasion.
The recent resettlement of Afghan evacuees has, to a degree, set ex... | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/us-braces-ukrainian-refugee-crisis/39287282 | 2022-03-02T02:14:16 | en | 0.97034 |
A new documentary tells the story of a father and son who went to prison after admitting to dozens of counts of child abuse. It raises doubts about whether justice was served. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for a documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, Capturing the Friedmans opens in theaters Friday. David D'Arcy r... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-11/capturing-the-friedmans-a-tale-of-family-scandal | 2022-03-02T02:14:18 | en | 0.951873 |
Fifty years ago, Briton Roger Bannister ran the world's first mile under four minutes. Just six weeks later, Australian John Landy broke Bannister's record, setting up a face-off between the world's first two men to achieve that long-elusive goal.
NPR's Juan Williams looks back on the Bannister-Landy matchup in an inte... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-05/the-perfect-mile | 2022-03-02T02:14:18 | en | 0.991749 |
Actor Gregory Peck electrified Hollywood with his 1962 portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. Peck died in his sleep Thursday at his Los Angeles home. NPR's Renee Montagne talks about Peck's career with film historian Damien Bona.
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Just in time for Mother's Day, participants in the StoryCorps national oral history project make special recordings with, and for, their mothers.
NPR's Steve Inskeep listens to some of the conversations with David Isay, the project's creator. People as young as five years old and as old as 103 have made recordings in a... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-06/a-collection-of-mothers-day-stories | 2022-03-02T02:14:24 | en | 0.974099 |
Mexican cinema has experienced a renaissance in recent years with Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien and The Crime of Padre Amaro. Herod's Law is the latest Mexican film to reach the United States. The film, released in 2000, was the first to attack Mexico's then-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) by name. Lo... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-12/movie-review-herods-law | 2022-03-02T02:14:30 | en | 0.899597 |
The new action-adventure film Van Helsing centers on the venerable doctor, an expert on vampires who masterminded the counterattack on Dracula in Bram Stoker's novel about the blood-sucking count. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.
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The science-fiction action film The Matrix and the animated Monsters Inc. may belong to different genres, but they have a striking similarity: both tell the story of an alternate universe fueled by the efforts of humans who are unaware that they are doing the fueling. NPR's Bob Mondello offers his thoughts on the subje... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-12/the-matrix-and-monsters-inc-mirror-movies | 2022-03-02T02:14:36 | en | 0.956992 |
In her new work Safe in Hell, now on stage in Southern California, playwright Amy Freed renders the Salem witch trials as black comedy. The play centers around the dysfunctional relationship between two historic figures involved in the 17th-century trials: moralist Increase Mather and his son, Cotton. Freed talks with ... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-06/safe-in-hell-absurdist-take-on-salem-witch-trials | 2022-03-02T02:14:37 | en | 0.961832 |
Chris Epting writes a guidebook to a broad range of historic and often hysterical American landmarks -- more than 700 in all. James Dean Died Here includes the spot where the young movie icon perished in a car accident, the location of the Brady Bunch house, and the hangar where the final scene of Casablanca may have b... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-13/road-trip-guide-james-dean-died-here | 2022-03-02T02:14:43 | en | 0.922925 |
Carandiru, the new fiction film by Hector Babenco, who directed Kiss of the Spider Woman, is based on a true story of life in a notorious Brazilian prison. In 1992, conditions there spawned a riot in which over 100 inmates were killed. Minnesota Public Radio's Euen Kerr reports.
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Twenty years ago Wednesday, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, on board the shuttle Challenger.
That milestone was preceded by a secret program in 1961 to test women pilots for space flight.
NPR's Melissa Block talks with Martha Ackmann, a senior lecturer of Women's Studies at Mount Holyoke College an... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-16/the-mercury-13-training-u-s-women-for-space | 2022-03-02T02:14:49 | en | 0.949859 |
Ancient Rome and Greece seem to be the hot topics for major motion pictures once again. Troy, with Brad Pitt as Achilles, opens in theaters next weekend. Alexander, directed by Oliver Stone, opens this summer. Pat Dowell reports on why filmmakers find the ancient venues so appealing.
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The fifth book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, goes on sale at 12:01 a.m. ET Saturday. The U.S. publisher has commissioned a record first run of 8.5 million copies. Thousands of bookstores across the United States plan late-night Potter parties. NPR's Elaine Korry repor... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-19/harry-potter-mania-returns | 2022-03-02T02:14:55 | en | 0.895221 |
Once a month, we ask our listeners to tell us what music they listen to. We've been introduced to an eclectic mix of classical music, '80s disco and alternative rock. But if you're a mother of young children, you may not have as much musical freedom. The songs you listen to are, inescapably, the songs your kids are lis... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-08/catherine-savage-what-are-you-listening-to | 2022-03-02T02:14:56 | en | 0.957737 |
The Legend of Suriyothai is based on the true story of the 16th century Thai queen Suriyothai. The movie comes to the United States under the auspices of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.
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NPR's Liane Hansen speaks with clinical psychologist and sociologist Thomas J. Cottle, author of When the Music Stopped: Discovering My Mother (SUNY Press). Cottle's mother, Gitta Gradova , was an established concert pianist of the 1920's and 30's, and she relished her budding career and rubbed elbows with the musical ... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-08/discovering-my-mother-twines-art-and-depression | 2022-03-02T02:15:02 | en | 0.967554 |
The new movie The Hulk is based on a Marvel comics character who is a sort of muscle-bound green id run amok. The film, from acclaimed director Ang Lee, has received mixed responses from the nation's critics. NPR's Bob Mondello offers his review.
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After more than 40 years, one of the most beloved and acclaimed children's stories is coming to the small screen. Madeleine L'Engle's Newbery Award-winning book A Wrinkle in Time is part science fiction, part coming-of-age novel. And it's been made into a TV movie, which airs on ABC Monday night.
Published in 1962, A W... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-08/lengles-a-wrinkle-in-time-to-make-tv-debut | 2022-03-02T02:15:08 | en | 0.959242 |
At a meeting of the World Archaeological Congress in Washington, D.C., archaeologists say post-war instability masks the full extent of Iraq's missing antiquities. But archaeologists stress that while looting is rampant in Iraq, similar destruction is occurring at museums and excavation sites around the world, includin... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-22/archaeologists-cite-threat-to-antiquities-beyond-iraq | 2022-03-02T02:15:14 | en | 0.92097 |
Liane Hansen
Liane Hansen has been the host of NPR's award-winning Weekend Edition Sunday for 20 years. She brings to her position an extensive background in broadcast journalism, including work as a radio producer, reporter, and on-air host at both the local and national level. The program has covered such breaking ne... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-08/the-subdudes-return-with-miracle-mule | 2022-03-02T02:15:15 | en | 0.964912 |
Leon Uris, a master of historical fiction, died Saturday of heart failure at his home on Shelter Island, N.Y. Uris was best known for his novel Exodus, which told the story of Jews trying to establish modern Israel. NPR's Michele Norris speaks with Jill Uris about her ex-husband's life and work.
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We remember actor, producer, author and comedian Alan King, who died Sunday. He was 76. King died in Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Medical Center of lung cancer. He was known for his wry observations on suburbia and life at large.
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Seventy-two years ago, the very first Indian "talkie" premiered, featuring seven songs. Ever since, music and movies have been woven tightly together in Bollywood, India's prolific film industry. The CD The Best of Bollywood collects some of the biggest film-soundtrack hits from the past 30 years. Chris Nickson has a r... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-24/music-review-the-best-of-bollywood-from-various-artists | 2022-03-02T02:15:26 | en | 0.932489 |
This season, the new musical Wicked has taken Broadway by storm. Based on a novel of the same name by Gregory McGuire, Wicked is set in the land of Oz before Dorothy blew in.
Wicked has won over audiences by forcing them to re-imagine the well-known tale of good v. evil, presenting them with a Wicked Witch of the West ... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-09/intersections-stephen-schwartzs-musical-ghosts | 2022-03-02T02:15:27 | en | 0.973673 |
Davy Rothbart is the creator of FOUND magazine, an occasionally-published journal filled with found notes, photos and audio sent in from all over the nation. The magazine prints these found submissions using grainy, black-and-white photocopies seemingly taped together on the page.
The found objects could be love letter... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-26/found-takes-interest-in-the-ordinary | 2022-03-02T02:15:32 | en | 0.956136 |
French arts performers plan to strike as the Cannes Film Festival gets under way Wednesday in France. Actors, dancers, electricians and cameramen say government reforms have cut some of their unemployment benefits. Festival organizers scrambling to make sure the event is not shut down. NPR's Renee Montagne reports.
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Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is the latest in a summer of sequels. Lucy Liu, Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz fight off a handful of evil doers and dangers from the trio's individual and collective pasts. Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition movie critic Kenneth Turan says the film is "full of physical stunts, tons ... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-26/movie-review-charlies-angels-full-throttle | 2022-03-02T02:15:38 | en | 0.864937 |
In writer Lucy Grealy's 1994 memoir Autobiography of a Face, she told of the facial bone cancer that ravaged her jaw and the years of pain and treatment that followed: radiation, chemotherapy and dozens of surgeries.
Lucy Grealy died in 2002 at age 39. She had spiraled into drug abuse and tried to kill herself several ... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-10/truth-and-beauty-a-tale-of-friendship | 2022-03-02T02:15:39 | en | 0.978308 |
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is presenting a two-play cycle called Continental Divide. The David Edgar production portrays a governor's race from the separate perspectives of the Republican and Democratic parties. Dmae Roberts reports.
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Some audiophiles with compact discs older than 10 years are noticing pin holes, oxidation, or flaking in the aluminum layer of their CDs. "CD rot" is not a common problem, but it does challenge claims that CDs are indestructible. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.
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Deck: To be up on the latest trends, cutting edge, and/or hip.
If you're a hipster, you already knew that. But if you need help understanding the latest lingo for the hip urbanite, The Hipster Handbook may be just the guide for you. NPR's Madeleine Brand stops by the book party at a downtown New York club to find out j... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-26/the-hipster-handbook | 2022-03-02T02:15:50 | en | 0.961116 |
The Motion Picture Association of America is considering whether to sue individuals who illegally download movies online, much the way the music industry went after those who pilfer music. Faster technology allows for faster downloads of large computer files such as movies. NPR's Kim Masters reports.
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From his hit television sitcoms to Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids cartoons, children have played a major role in Bill Cosby's career. In his latest project, Cosby has written Friends of a Feather, a book he hopes will appeal as much to adults as to their kids.
As he tells NPR's Bob Edwards on Morning Edition, Friends of... | https://www.kunm.org/2003-06-29/bill-cosby-friends-of-a-feather | 2022-03-02T02:15:56 | en | 0.978299 |
Singer Hayley Westenra is fresh from success on the international classical charts, and hoping to win new fans in the U.S. NPR Senior Correspondent Juan Williams talks with the 17-year-old New Zealand soprano about her voice and her new album, Pure.
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Gregory Peck, one of the enduring stars of Hollywood's golden age, dies at his home in Los Angeles. He was 87. More often than not, Peck played the hero. He won an Oscar for his 1963 role as the quietly courageous defense lawyer Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird. Pat Dowell offers a remembrance. (Please note this ... | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/2003-06-11/film-hero-gregory-peck-dead-at-87 | 2022-03-02T02:16:02 | en | 0.966073 |
Singer Sam Phillips began her music career as a Christian singer. She took her faith with her and began to make pop music that are modern torch songs, songs of love and pain. The music on her latest CD, A Boot and A Shoe, is stark, with production from T Bone Burnett. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Phillips about the c... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-12/sam-phillips-releases-a-boot-and-a-shoe | 2022-03-02T02:16:04 | en | 0.978003 |
Journalist David Brinkley, whose career paralleled much of the evolution of American television news coverage, dies of complications from a fall at age 82. Brinkley first gained fame in the 1960s co-anchoring NBC's evening news program with Chet Huntley; he later hosted ABC's This Week with David Brinkley. Brinkley won... | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/2003-06-11/tv-news-legend-david-brinkley-dies-at-82 | 2022-03-02T02:16:09 | en | 0.959936 |
A new movie is selling out theaters in Iran but angering some of the country's religious leaders. Government censors delayed the release of The Lizard, and some leading clerics want it banned altogether. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and journalist Roxana Saberi.
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Actor, director, writer and producer Hume Cronyn died Sunday at his home in Fairfield, Conn., from prostate cancer. He was 91. A veteran of both stage and screen, Cronyn was perhaps best known for his collaborations with his wife, the late Jessica Tandy. The couple received a special lifetime achievement Tony in 1994. ... | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/2003-06-15/hollywood-veteran-hume-cronyn-91-dies | 2022-03-02T02:16:15 | en | 0.99415 |
Music Review: 'Easy Living' from Enrico Rava Published May 13, 2004 at 11:00 PM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 0:00 Jim Fusilli reviews Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava's latest CD Easy Living, which he says blends elements of traditional American jazz with a unique Italian touch. Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-13/music-review-easy-living-from-enrico-rava | 2022-03-02T02:16:16 | en | 0.869458 |
College baseball players and fans head to Omaha, Neb., for the NCAA 2003 Men's College World Series. Organizers expect to sell more than 250,000 tickets as the country's top eight college baseball teams compete for the national championship. Hear Deborah Van Fleet.
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Profile: Writer Andrew Sean Greer By Susan Stamberg Published May 13, 2004 at 11:00 PM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 0:00 NPR's Susan Stamberg visits writer Andrew Sean Greer in San Francisco to talk about his new novel, The Confessions of Max Tivoli. Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-13/profile-writer-andrew-sean-greer | 2022-03-02T02:16:22 | en | 0.892762 |
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Larry Doby, the first black player in the American League, dies after a long illness. He was believed to be 79. Doby was named to seven straight All-Star teams in his 13-year career, most of it spent with the Cleveland Indians. He experienced discrimination both on and off the field, but in later... | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/2003-06-18/baseball-pioneer-larry-doby-dies | 2022-03-02T02:16:27 | en | 0.97756 |
Burak Bilgili was understandably nervous. Last week, without the benefit of a full-stage or orchestra rehearsal, Bilgili made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni.
NPR's Scott Simon talks with the 29-year-old Turkish bass baritone about being asked to fill in at the last minute in f... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-14/an-opera-understudys-chance-to-shine | 2022-03-02T02:16:28 | en | 0.965347 |
As her memoir, Living History, tops the best-seller lists, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with NPR's Juan Williams about her political ambitions, President Bush, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Topic A of all conversations about her book is the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal that nearly brought down Bil... | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/2003-06-18/hillary-clintons-living-history | 2022-03-02T02:16:33 | en | 0.988025 |
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the hugely popular "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" series. The Full Cupboard of Life, set in Botswana, is the fifth book in the series. Detective Precious Ramotswe is also back. She helps people in her close-knit community deal with the little incidents of life. Hear Smith and NP... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-14/mystery-author-back-with-full-cupboard | 2022-03-02T02:16:34 | en | 0.952132 |
Donald Trump has devoted much of his last week to rewriting history when it comes to his relationship with Russia, Ukraine, and NATO. Among other things, the former president has claimed that Vladimir Putin “never would have” invaded Ukraine on his watch; that there “would be no NATO” if it wasn‘t for him; and that he ... | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/john-bolton-donald-trump-ukraine-finland-russia | 2022-03-02T02:16:38 | en | 0.986509 |
Actress Katharine Hepburn, who won a record four best actress Oscars in her 60-year career, dies at the age of 96. Hepburn starred in such film classics as The Philadelphia Story and The African Queen. She married only once, briefly, but the great love of her life was actor Spencer Tracy, with whom she made nine films ... | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/2003-06-28/actress-katharine-hepburn-dies-at-96 | 2022-03-02T02:16:39 | en | 0.979861 |
Spy novels have taken the art of espionage out of the shadows and into the hands of readers since the end of the 19th century. Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, and John Le Carre elevated the genre to new levels of sophistication. Ian Fleming's James Bond novels -- and the films based on them -- romanticized espionage to the... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-15/author-hitz-tackles-myth-and-reality-of-espionage | 2022-03-02T02:16:40 | en | 0.943643 |
The U.S. Attorney’s Office will conduct a compliance review of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo to evaluate accessibility for the disabled, U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery announced Tuesday.
The investigation was launched after complaints the HLSR violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).
The all... | https://www.12newsnow.com/article/entertainment/events/rodeo-houston-accessibility-disabled-review/285-5e17ea55-7683-46c4-a1ba-258d930443eb | 2022-03-02T02:16:44 | en | 0.973952 |
Screen legend Katharine Hepburn, who starred in more than 50 films and projected the ideals of independence and intelligence to generations of women, dies at 96. Hepburn won a record four best actress Oscars in her 60-year career, for her roles in Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter and On G... | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/2003-06-29/actress-katharine-hepburn-dies-at-96 | 2022-03-02T02:16:46 | en | 0.931102 |
In modern China, writing generally has not been something done for pleasure. It has been a way to challenge readers to revitalize the country or to try to mold souls politically. Under Chairman Mao, literature was pure propaganda. But now, as China opens up to the west, literature is losing its political role, and crit... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-15/chinese-literature-takes-the-edge-off | 2022-03-02T02:16:47 | en | 0.971792 |
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has a lot to address in his first State of the Union speech.
Along with domestic topics, Biden is expected to speak on Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- with Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S. on the guest list. That's on top of expected remarks about nursing home changes, health care, infr... | https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/nation-world/state-of-the-union-longest-shortest-speeches/507-5a3f237b-e1eb-4bb3-9031-4af7e07d24c3 | 2022-03-02T02:16:50 | en | 0.960104 |
Coffee and Cigarettes, from iconoclast director Jim Jarmusch, is the culmination of years of filming vignettes centering on coffee shops. The movie features a variety of performers, from Tom Waits to Iggy Pop and Steven Wright. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden plans to announce Tuesday night that the U.S. is banning Russian aircraft from its airspace in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the decision.
The move follows similar action by Canada and the European Union this week. The people spoke on the... | https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/biden-sotu-russia-airspace/507-efb5edbb-239a-436a-9033-1dc42a2a1535 | 2022-03-02T02:16:56 | en | 0.964833 |
Alan Cheuse reviews Symptomatic, by Danzy Senna, a novel about a young California woman of mixed race who falls into a psychic tug of war with a colleague in New York City. It is published by Riverhead Books.
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Actor Tony Randall died Monday night; he was 84. Randall, best known for his role as Felix Unger on the 1970s sitcom [The Odd Couple, had] developed pneumonia following heart bypass surgery in December. Randall's career spanned decades on both screen and stage, where he often worked with theater director John Tillinger... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-17/comic-actor-tony-randall-dies-at-age-84 | 2022-03-02T02:17:05 | en | 0.979136 |
Quick, name the executive producer of your favorite TV show. OK, how about any TV show? The fact is most producers labor in relative obscurity. Well, not Don Hewitt, the mastermind behind the newsmagazine 60 Minutes.
For the past 35 years, Hewitt has been as much a presence on 60 Minutes as the signature sweep of the s... | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/2004-05-17/don-hewitt-leaves-60-minutes | 2022-03-02T02:17:11 | en | 0.984703 |
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