Arts

Arts

Rob Frazier Brings an Evening of Bach to Centenary United Methodist Church

11:08pm May 16, 2013

Centenary United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem has championed the arts for decades and recently appointed Director of Music and the Arts Dr. Robert Frazier carries that tradition forward, with an ambitious all Bach program this Sunday night, May 19^th at 7:30 pm in the UMC Sanctuary.

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Egyptian folk singer Dina El Wedidi performs at Qasr El Nil Theater during the Downtown Cairo Arts Festival. Wedidi says efforts to revitalize venues like the Qasr El Nil are important because there aren't enough places for musicians of the post-revolutio

From The Heart Of Egypt's Revolt, The Pulse Of Artistic Life

8:34pm May 16, 2013

by Leila Fadel

Egypt's capital has been associated with protest and political upheaval. But an arts festival attempts to clear away the dust and revitalize a once-glorious cultural hub.

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Zoe Saldana is Uhura and Zachary Quinto is Spock in the new J.J. Abrams-directed Star Trek: Into Darkness, the 12th installment in the franchise.

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'Into Darkness,' Boldly And With A Few Twists

2:04pm May 16, 2013

by David Edelstein

The 12th film based on Gene Roddenberry's '60s sci-fi TV show is the second to star a new group of actors as Kirk, Spock and their crew. J.J. Abrams returns as director, and Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch plays the memorable villain.

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Authoring Action Engages through the Power of Voice

7:56am May 16, 2013

by Bethany Chafin

Today we take a look at Authoring Action, a Winston-Salem based non-profit harnessing the power of storytelling and engaging young people ages 12 to 18.

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David Hagy Conducts and Performs with the Salisbury Symphony

5:50pm May 15, 2013

by David Ford

David Hagy is a true double threat. As a conductor he leads the Wake Forest University Orchestra and Salisbury Symphony, but he's also a violinist.

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For her latest film, Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley turns her camera on her own family.

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A Polley Family Secret, Deftly Pieced Together

3:04pm May 15, 2013

In a striking documentary, Sarah Polley turns the camera on her own family. The director and actor, known for films such as Away from Her and The Sweet Hereafter, was teased growing up about not looking like her actor father. At 27, she discovered that it wasn't a joke.

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Books
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Coming To 'Americanah': Two Tales Of Immigrant Experience

2:34pm May 15, 2013

by Maureen Corrigan

The new book from Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a knockout of a novel about immigration that transcends genre. It's everything from a coming-of-age novel to a romance to a comic novel of social manners to an up-to-the-minute meditation on race.

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Light It Up: Director Baz Luhrmann (right, with stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan on the set of The Great Gatsby) brought a lush visual sensibility to a tale whose tone not everyone thinks of as epic.

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At The Movies, A Swirl Of Style And Substance

5:41pm May 14, 2013

by Bob Mondello

Special effects date back to the dawn of film, but with today's tools moviemakers can put pretty much anything on-screen — which has NPR film critic Bob Mondello thinking about how movie style affects movie substance.

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Would Mel Brooks' famous 2,000-Year-Old Man have understood modern language? Researchers say there's a possibility.

Could You Talk To A Caveman? Scientists Say It's Possible

5:41pm May 14, 2013

by NPR Staff

Researchers at the University of Reading are speculating that today's languages share a common root dating as far back as the last Ice Age. Words like "mother," "man" and "ashes" are categorized as "ultraconserved," meaning they are survivors of a lost language from which many modern tongues are descended.

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Protesters demonstrate in downtown Orlando, Fla., on May 1, 2006. Most news outlets have long abandoned the use of the term "illegals."

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In Newsrooms, Some Immigration Terms Are Going Out Of Style

5:41pm May 14, 2013

by David Folkenflik

In April, the Associated Press decided the word "illegal" should only be used to describe actions, not people. It's one of several major news outlets that have been reconsidering how to refer to people who are in this country illegally.

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