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All Hail The Glow Cloud: 'Night Vale' Welcomes Readers

10:03am October 22, 2015

by Amal El-Mohtar

The creators of the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale are now telling their tales of a strange desert town in novel form, in a new book reviewer Amal El-Mohtar calls "splendid, weird, moving."

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Grand Theft Vino: Higher Wine Prices Are Attracting More Thieves

7:05pm October 21, 2015

by Jackie Northam

Wine theft is on the upswing — particularly of very high-end, irreplaceable bottles. Some restaurants and wineries have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of wine in a single heist.

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Celia Chacon, a former host of Cooking Without Looking, in the kitchen at Lighthouse of Broward, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2008. The television cooking show features chefs and guests who are blind or visually impaired.

Cooking With Disabilities: An Exercise In Creative Problem Solving

5:45pm October 21, 2015

by Tove Danovich

In a perfect world, everyone with a physical disability would have a kitchen fully adapted to their needs. But such remodels can be pricey. In many cases, small DIY-solutions help keep people cooking.

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'Somewhat United' Brings Lafayette Down From His Pedestal

3:29pm October 21, 2015

by Colin Dwyer

Sarah Vowell's charming not-quite-a-history gives us a young, glory-hungry Marquis de Lafayette, and the Founding Fathers not as marble statues, but as real men who bicker, bumble and snore.

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The Heat, The Pressure, The Violence: Cooking Films Are The New Boxing Movies

2:15pm October 21, 2015

by Neda Ulaby

When you go to boxing movies, you can count on training montages, high-stakes dramatic moments, and the way a scrappy outsider always seems to have to prove him or herself in the ring. Many of these traits are showing up in a new group of movies — this time about chefs.

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Hanes Gallery Presents "Esther Gruber: With But Beyond The Eye"

8:45am October 21, 2015

by David Ford

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Enlightenment Proves Elusive In 'Witches Of America'

7:03am October 21, 2015

by Genevieve Valentine

Alex Mar's half-memoir, half-cultural study of American occultism mixes research with her own search for meaning. Critic Genevieve Valentine says it's a difficult journey, for Mar and for readers.

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'Star Wars' Fans Light Up The Internet As New Trailer Debuts

7:41pm October 20, 2015

by Andrew Limbong

The final trailer for Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens was released Monday night, and tickets for the film went on sale. Fans lit up the Internet with theories about the story, and movie theater web sites crashed.

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Meaningful Art: Taylor Hayes

4:52pm October 20, 2015

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Oprah Hopes Her Midas Touch Gilds Her OWN Series, 'Belief'

4:18pm October 20, 2015

by NPR Staff

Oprah Winfrey acquired a stake in Weight Watchers and the company's stock soared. She hopes to do the same for her cable TV network with a new seven-part series on faith and religion around the world.

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