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Lena Horne (1917–2010) had close working relationships with composers like Harold Arlen and Billy Strayhorn.
Porchlight
Listen to the familiar and the forgotten through recorded song
Listen to the familiar and the forgotten through recorded song
Movies
In the 1930s America had more movie theaters than it did banks. Priorities.
Train
Just the right speed to watch the world go by.
'20s
It’s not until later in life that you realize how short a decade really is.
Coffee
We spend an inordinate amount of money, effort, and time securing a daily cup of coffee. The caffeine effect is a little less than 5 hours for an 8 oz. serving.
Canvas
A painting communicates and connects without words, without sound. Just one sense and your feelings.
Animals
Perhaps we might consider ourselves mammals first, humans second.
Comics
With daily comic strips, it’s either a laugh with the next installment or a problem that may not be solved until tomorrow. The lesson either way is that life is short.
Books
Books allow us to communicate the deepest meaning between time periods, between cultures, between total strangers. Wherever it is, we can be there.
Act
Acting up and acting out are usually considered behavioral problems.
Cash Money
Cash money rewards conscious action in the moment. You have it. You spend it. Or not.
Story
More than anything else, story helps us define what is true and what is worth remembering.
Leap
The steps taken immediately before a leap will determine the distance covered.
More Arts & Culture
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Alex asks Jesse for help about a minor existential crisis he was experiencing with regard to arts journalism in troubling times.
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I would not be without my annual larkspur, which I have enjoyed year after year and some often self-seed and return, but in order to be sure, I always buy some seeds. I don't want to risk a year without it! -
In 1879, William Niles Wishard ushered in a pivotal period in City Hospital’s history that coincided with the beginning of the scientific medical revolution. -
There is a large number of more modern hybrid cultivars now available, and some produce flowers in other shades such as white, rose, magenta, burgundy, and purple. -
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Poet Daniel Lassell reads “Llama,” “Ritter Park Cabin,” “Frame [Like a resurrected body],” “Downward Rooms,” and “Frame Inside a Frame [In the underworld].” -
A survey of songs from the American Songbook about dancing. -
We're exploring how Renaissance musicians captured the sounds of animals in their music as we take a trip through a musical zoo. Along the way, we’ll hear the beautiful calls of the Nightingale, see the mighty crocodile, and hear a choir of all the animals singing together. -
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Mexican migrants to the Calumet Region in the 1920s began to form their own fraternal benefit societies, already popular in their native country. -
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