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'Schroder' Chronicles A Father's Desperate Mistakes

3:43pm February 03, 2013

by NPR Staff

In Amity Gaige's new novel, Eric Kennedy, aka East German immigrant Erik Schroder, reveals his true identity to his ex-wife and explains why he kidnapped his own 6-year-old daughter.

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Jimmy Cliff in a Volkswagen "Get Happy" commercial.

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For Super Bowl Ads, More Social-Media Savvy

7:17pm February 01, 2013

by Elizabeth Blair

For years, Super Bowl ads have gone viral after they've aired. But these days brands like Doritos and Volkswagen are turning to social media to crowdsource ad creation — and to boost the buzz long before the big Sunday kickoff.

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The Performing Arts Series Continues at Appalachian State University

12:12pm February 01, 2013

by David Ford

Every academic year some of the world's most exciting and highly renowned artists make Appalachian State University their destination.

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The documentary The Gatekeepers examines Israeli security policy in interviews with six former heads of the secretive Shin Bet agency.

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'Gatekeepers' Let Us Inside Israeli Security

10:24am February 01, 2013

by David Edelstein

The Oscar-nominated documentary directed by Dror Moreh is not a defense of Israeli security policy, but a critique. The six Shin Bet heads Moreh interviews may believe in the tactics they devised, but it's the overall strategy they think is flawed.

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How The Glock Became America's Weapon Of Choice

10:18am February 01, 2013

In his book Glock: The Rise of America's Gun, Paul Barrett traces how the sleek, high-capacity Austrian weapon found its way into Hollywood films and rap lyrics, not to mention two-thirds of all U.S. police departments.

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Triad Arts Weekend: February 1, 2013

9:17am February 01, 2013

by David Ford

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War Writ Small: Of Pushcarts And Peashooters

7:55pm January 31, 2013

by Adam Mansbach

Jean Merrill's classic children's book The Pushcart War explores war, peace and pushcarts on the streets of New York. Author Adam Mansbach writes that the story still resonates. Do you have a favorite children's book that deals with heavy themes? Tell us in the comments.

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An anonymous artist started placing the hand-painted gnomes on the bases of utility poles all over Oakland.

Painted Gnomes Allowed To Roam On Oakland Utility Poles

7:55pm January 31, 2013

by NPR Staff

Over the past year, small, elfin creatures started springing up all around Oakland, Calif., on the base of utility poles. The local utility had vowed to remove them but now says the paintings can stay.

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Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, based in Washington, D.C.

Coming Home — And Out — In The South

5:17pm January 31, 2013

There's no way to really generalize what it's like to be gay in the South. But to get an idea, we spent a day with Chad Griffin — the newest president of a Washington-based gay rights group — as he spent his first day on the job in his hometown of Arkadelphia, Ark.

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Kevin Spacey is the star and a producer of the new Netflix series House of Cards, on which David Fincher is a co-producer.

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Spacey And Fincher Make A 'House Of Cards'

12:18pm January 31, 2013

Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey and Oscar-winning director David Fincher team up for a new Netflix original series that premieres Friday. House of Cards follows a Machiavellian politician as he schemes to take down the president of the United States.

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