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Selections from The Spoken Word

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Smithsonian Magazine - Oct. 29 (Other) - Listen to famous British and American writers talk about their work and their views on culture and society.

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Marilyn Monroe's iconic dress sells for $5.6 million at auction

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Alan Duke - Jun. 19 (News Report) - Marilyn Monroe's white "subway" dress sold for more than $5.6 million in a Beverly Hills, California auction Saturday night in which bidders paid another $2.7 million for three other Monroe movie outfits.

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This 'Jihadi' Is Armed With a Subversive Sense of Humor - WSJ.com

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Dion Nissenbaum - Jun. 02 (News) - Dressed in a police uniform, Aman Mojadidi once set up a fake roadside checkpoint to hand out real money to befuddled Afghan motorists used to paying, not receiving, bribes. Then, during last fall's parliamentary elections, the Florida-born Afghan artist took his antics a step further by covertly pasting Kabul walls with faux campaign posters that featured him in a black turban with a gold-plated pistol hanging around his neck.

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Gil Scott-Heron, Poet And Musician, Has Died

Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Daoud Tyler-Ameen - May. 28 (News) - The influential poet and musician is often credited with being one of the progenitors of hip-hop, and is best known for the spoken-word piece "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised."

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Prehistoric Cave With a Hornet on the Wall

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Larry Rohter - Apr. 24 (News Report) - The director Werner Herzog remembers being about 12 years old when he saw, and was transfixed by, a picture of a horse on the cover of a book about Paleolithic art, displayed in the window of a bookstore in the isolated Bavarian village where he lived. Ever since, even as he was making films like “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” and “Nosferatu,” that image “has engaged me and haunted my mind,” he said. “It has never left me.” But it took more than 50 years after that first exposure to prehistoric cave art for Mr. Herzog to be able to act on his childhood fascination. In the spring of 2010 he was allowed to film in the Chauvet cave in southeastern France, where archaeologists have found exquisite wall paintings some 32,000 years old, the oldest ever discovered, and the result is an 90-minute documentary called “Cave of Forgotten Dreams.”

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Building a Plastic Bottle School

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NewsHour - Apr. 07 (News) - When former Peace Corps volunteer Laura Kutner was asked to help find funding to finish constructing two classrooms in the elementary school where she worked in Guatemala, she decided to use -- or rather reuse -- a common piece of trash.

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Master storyteller M.K. Asante keeps it real in the classroom - CNN.com

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Apr. 07 (News) -

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YouTube Launches Towson Teens' Music Career

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Towson Patch - Mar. 30 (News) -

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Lyric Opera Baltimore announces inaugural season

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Tim Smith - Feb. 14 (News) - Memories of Baltimore Opera's demise might fade soon, if all goes well for Lyric Opera Baltimore, which has gradually emerged, partly from the ashes of the former company, and has just announced a three-production season for 2011-2012.

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Operation Storefront aims to fill downtown vacancies and entrepreneurial dreams

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Jill Rosen - Feb. 04 (News) - Instead of waiting for another real estate boom that might not arrive, with a little money and some creative thinking, downtown boosters fashioned their own boomlet, encouraging about a dozen dreamers to grab an empty property and start using it — right now.

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Artist portrays Baltimore's degraded harbor

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - Feb. 03 (News) - 'Empty Waters' depicts trash, industry on the Patapsco

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Arts Collective Bounces Back From Burglary

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Towson Patch - Jan. 31 (News) -

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Teen explains origins of mystery piano

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Josh Levs - Jan. 27 (News Report) - The mystery surrounding a piano that showed up on a Biscayne Bay sandbar has apparently arrived at a grand conclusion: It was the work of a teenage boy, with a little help from his friends.

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On Gulf Coast, a ceramics museum that's unafraid of hurricanes

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Richard Fausset - Nov. 07 (News Report) - On Saturday afternoon, architect Frank Gehry's latest creation — a characteristically lyrical cluster of crimped and undulating buildings — opened to the public here as the new home of the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art. Like nearly every recent Gehry project, it is likely to become an instant landmark. The question is whether it will be an enduring one. The buildings front a stretch of Gulf of Mexico coastline that is a notorious bull's-eye for hurricanes.

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Buildings and Emissions: Making the Connection

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Pew Center on Global Climate Change - By Buildings, Emmissions: Making the Connection - Jun. 11 (Special Report) - Residential and commercial buildings account for almost 39 percent of total U.S. energy consumption and 38 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.1 Nearly all of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the residential and commercial sectors can be attributed to energy use in buildings

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Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By Patrick Symmes - Feb. 23 (News Report) - And under our feet, according to archeologist Klaus Schmidt, are the stones that mark the spot—the exact spot—where humans began that ascent

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Cap-and-trade & Health Care & Insurance Reform I see these two issues as one and the same thing. The first one is to heal our planet, and the second is to heal our human bodies. Also, both issues have to deal with how the 'healing' is delievered and wh

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Foreign policy, EU news, climate, green technology, health. - Aug. 21 (Investigative Report) - Experts and politicians on whether health care reform will trump climate change.

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Democrats Grow Wary as Health Bill Advances

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Robert Pear, David M. Herszenhorn - Jul. 18 (News Analysis) - Three of the five Congressional committees working on legislation to reinvent the nation’s health care system delivered bills this week along the lines proposed by President Obama. But instead of celebrating their success, many Democrats were apprehensive, nervous and defensive.

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Year's Best Optical Illusion: Scientific American Gallery

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - Apr. 02 (Research) - No, you have not had one grappa too many. These images of the Leaning Tower are actually identical, but the tower on the right looks more lopsided because the human visual system treats the two images as one scene.

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Cooper Union’s Appeal (No Tuition) Is Heightened by Recession

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Lisa W. Foderaro - Feb. 09 (News Report) - Already among the nation’s most competitive colleges, with an admissions rate of about 8 percent — on par with Juilliard or Harvard — Cooper saw about a 70 percent surge in applications for early decision this year, after annual increases of 5 percent to 10 percent over the last decade. Over all, the school expected to receive 3,300 applications this season for the 265 spots in the Class of 2013, including 750 students vying for 30 seats in the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. “I’m pretty confident that the economy played a big role,” said the dean of admissions, Mitchell Lipton. “You probably had a lot of parents who said: ‘Look, I know you’re looking at Cooper Union. You ought to make it your first choice.’ ”

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Monet, Modigliani, Low Estimates Boost Christie’s London Sale

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Bloomberg - By Scott Reyburn - Feb. 06 (News Report) - There was a shift in taste among buyers from classic Impressionist paintings of the 1870s to post-1900 pieces, said Seydoux. “Modern works are producing more live and exciting bidding,’’ he said. Sixteen lots sold for more than 1 million pounds. Christie’s said 54 percent of the works were bought by European bidders, 26 percent from the U.S., 18 percent from the U.K. and 2 percent from Asia.

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Sales drop by half in Christie's Asian art sale in HK

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By James Pomfret - Nov. 30 (News Report) - Bidding was lackluster with many collectors and dealers not drawn to valuations seen as overpriced given the current market conditions. Only 56 percent of 32 lots of Asian Contemporary art sold, while 46 percent of Chinese 20th Century artwork was sold.

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Financial crisis overshadows Sotheby's sales_English_

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Xinhua - By Special Report - Nov. 22 (Special Report) - The dramatic worldwide de-leveraging caused by the end of the credit bubble created a volatile environment surrounding the sales, the report said, adding that it would be "naive to think buying decisions on Asian art and works of art were not made in the context of this economic uncertainty."

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The remarkable renaissance in Chinese art

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Andrew Johnson - Nov. 16 (News Report) - With its £2 trillion surplus, China's economic might dominates the world. Now its painters and sculptors are developing, collectively, into a contemporary arts superpower. Asian artists, and in particular those from China, dominate a new list of the world's best-selling contemporary artists of last year. Among the world's most sought-after artists are the unfamiliar names of Zhang Xiaogang, Yue Minjun and Zeng Fanzhi.

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The Feud and the Fakes

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By CHRISTOPHER MASON, CHRISTOPHER OWEN - Oct. 16 (Investigative Report) - FAMILY STYLE Like his brother, John, before him, the antiques dealer Carlton Hobbs is said to have been dealing in fakes.

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