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The Kennedy Center Honors Take Wing

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The Kennedy Center Honors and Blackwing Pencils The Kennedy Center Honors, which recognizes a select few recipients for their sterling contributions to culture through a lifetime in the performing arts, airs tonight on CBS throughout the United…
Boing Boing

Follow the Bouncing Ball: Mark Frauenfelder and Boing Boing

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The Internet is a mysterious place full of memes, message board wars and countless cat videos. Then, amongst the confusion and disorder, there’s BoingBoing.net. Headed by co-founder Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing has been creating order out…

Sketchy Details: Artist, Image and Jane Austen

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Sketchy Details: Pencil Sketches of Jane Austen She sits at work, her back erect in over a small writing table. Scattered across its surface are the tools of her trade: a tablet of paper, a pen or two. Westminster Abbey looms outside her window,…
Jim Morrison Poetry

Lighting the Fire: The Poetry of Jim Morrison

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Lighting the Fire: The Poetry of Jim Morrison “The time to hesitate is through,/No time to wallow in the mire,/Try now we can only lose,/And our love becomes a funeral pyre.” These words, whose rhyme and meter evoke images of Byron,…
Walt Disney

Pursuing Your Passions: Lessons Learned from Walt Disney

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Pursuing Your Passions: Lessons Learned from Walt Disney Walt Disney once said of the origins of his most famous character, “Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at…
Mark Twain

Have You Read Your Mark Twain Today?

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Have You Read Your Mark Twain Today? Trying to write about Mark Twain on this, the 176th anniversary of his birth, is a distinctly daunting task. For one, the man born Samuel Clemmens is responsible for some of the greatest novels of all…

When Words Aren’t Enough: Music in Film

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When Words Aren't Enough: Music in Film There is a story surrounding composer John Williams and the score for “Schindler’s List,” one of the most moving and memorable instances of music in film. As both director Steven Spielberg and Williams…

Of Innocence and Rage: Martin Scorsese’s Greatest Films

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It's a good month to be Martin Scorsese. Not only does one of America's greatest film-makers turn 69 today, but his latest film, "Hugo," has already garnered positive critical buzz before its November 23 release date. Looking back at some of…
Sesame Street

How to Get to Creativity? Take a Walk Down Sesame Street.

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Since its debut forty-two years ago today, Sesame Street has been inspiring viewers of all ages with its messages of imagination, tolerance, love and creativity. In honor of the show's anniversary, Studio 602 has compiled a list of some of Sesame…

Pencils and Pop Culture: Project Runway

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Pencils and Pop Culture: Project Runway With the ninth season of the reality television juggernaut “Project Runway” currently airing Thursday nights at 9:00 on Lifetime, viewers can watch as a squadron of designers as they snip, sew and…