Film Foundry
Springfield Ballet announces its new season; The Gillioz hosts The Rising Revisited, a reimagining of Bruce Springsteen's post-9/11 album; the Film Foundry hosts a filmmakers showcase; a new book explores the history of the Springfield Art Museum; and we pay tribute to the great Dolly Parton.
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NASA launched a telescope named after Nancy Grace Roman, the pioneering astronomer whose work helped make Hubble and generations of space telescopes possible.
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A corn dog may look like lunch. But to an economist, the price is a bigger story about food prices and inflation.
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The U.S. has pledged 3.5 million in flood aid for Tibet and Nepal, with the first $500,000 distributed by Catholic Relief Services. An aid worker with the group explains what flood survivors need now.
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Insanity defenses are notoriously difficult to win. But Massachusetts law could give Lindsay Clancy a better chance.
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For more than 50 years, Noel Godin went after famous and powerful people with cream pies. His targets included politicians, philosophers, filmmakers and, famously, Bill Gates.
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Dolly Parton built a movie career on top of an already huge music career. Other singers have tried, with mixed results.
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Researchers are looking at new ways to use psychedelics to treat depression. Science journalist Marcelo Leite says there's also a lot to learn from indigenous people who have used them for generations.
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What happens when Russia arrests civilians in the Ukrainian territories it occupies? New Yorker writer Joshua Yaffa followed a group of women through the Russian prison system.
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Would $10 convince you to walk up to a stranger and tie their shoe? One Minneapolis artist turned that question into delightfully public chaos.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a giant billboard reading: "Lake Ontario — Now and Always." But tech giant Google has said it is renaming the lake for U.S. users, as President Trump demanded. -
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with the Womack Sisters about their debut self-titled album and their chance to bring something new to their family musical legacy.
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At this year's Fringe festival, the audience is hot and cold on a new performance space — in a saunaEvery August, millions gather in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the Fringe, the world's largest performing arts festival. This year's festival features a sauna.
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Warming ocean waters are teeing up a particularly strong El Niño weather pattern.
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Egypt's most popular breakfast staple is a modern classic that's also been around for millennia. We take a look at taamiya for our summer series on breakfast around the globe.
