Month: February 2022

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Shouts & Murmurs by Cora Frazier: When painful memories of past traumas—lost Teddy bears, mean gym teachers—come up during shooting practice, remember not to let your emotions drive.

Tardigrade ASMR, the thoughts of a baguette, and other things that are clearer than mumbling movie stars’ words.

He created stories centered on African and African American folk tales and his vibrantly colored collage and paper-cut illustrations adorned the pages of some 50 books.

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The famed silkscreen printer, whose work is on display at the Kreeger Museum’s exhibition “Lou Stovall: On Inventions and Color,” pioneered an artform while building community in Washington, D.C.

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Scott Simon talks to radio host and author Martin Goldsmith about “Winter Journey,” a film about his parents, who were musicians in a Jewish orchestra during Nazi Germany.

Scott Simon speaks to Shawn Harrington, who appeared in the 1994 basketball documentary “Hoop Dreams.” He began teaching in Chicago this week after being the victim of a drive-by-shooting in 2014.

Nightmare Alley director Guillermo del Toro says his future was set the first time he saw Frankenstein. Science writer Florence Williams examines the scientific reason why breaking up feels so rotten.

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Historian Shermann Thomas is Chicago’s most popular TikTok star, and he got there by telling cool facts about the city he loves. But what does he know about goats? We ask him 3 questions to find out.

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Around the world, trucks are essential everyday vehicles. In Pakistan, trucks are also canvases for dazzling works of art. Truck art has served a social good too, and helped recover missing children.

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