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Greeting Card Emergency: Unhappy Holidays
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500
In a year that saw record foreclosures, tanking markets and soaring unemployment, it's hard to find a holiday card that quite expresses the vicissitudes of the year. Don't worry. Greeting card emergency solver David Dickerson is back to solve your holiday card dilemmas.
Extreme Bird-Watching From Tundra To Swamp
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:25:00 -0500
Photographer Theodore Cross has elevated the sport of birdwatching: he's been traveling the world and photographing waterbirds for nearly 40 years. Now, at the age of eighty-five, he's published his collection in a new book.
Swimming With Icebergs
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:37:13 -0500
NPR's science producer Jason Orfanon sends another dispatch from Antarctica, with a story about his polar plunge!
Chicago's Forgotten Renaissance Man
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:04:30 -0500
If you want to see a work of art by Edgar Miller, you basically have to go to Chicago. And even then, you probably won't find it in a museum.
From Bauhaus, A Visionary Mix Of Art And Industry
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:03:00 -0500
The Bauhaus was one of the most important and exciting social and artistic movements of post-World-War-I Germany. Founded by architect Walter Gropius, the movement lasted 14 years until the Nazis finally forced it to shut down. An astonishing exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art gives a thorough view of the precise but imaginative products of Bauhaus.
Tom Ford: From Fashion To Film With 'A Single Man'
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:35:00 -0500
For years, Tom Ford has been associated with fashion; he was, after all, credited with reviving the fortunes of the near-bankrupt Gucci, where he became creative director. Now he's put his creative sensibilities to work in the service of a Christopher Isherwood tale: A Single Man, which marks Ford's big-screen directorial debut.

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