An environmental writer takes issue with The Sound of Music, only to be won over by his daughters’ reenactment of its opening scene in their home hills of Nevada, a place decidedly not the green world of the Austrian Alps...
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A Chicago arts program preserves the city’s most famous music...
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Hanni El Khatib's doo-wop-tinted punk rock vibrates with pure adrenaline...
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Blue Hour is a patient, instrumental soundtrack for complex emotions...
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Kiran Ahluwalia weaves global aesthetics into a sensual tapestry...
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A dramatic triptych shows a rual Chinese mining town slowly suffocating...
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Gary Hustwit's latest documentary provides a glimpse into the world of innovative urban design...
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An Iranian marital drama that turns into a complex, class-conscious exploration of Islamic faith...
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Why believing in Santa Claus makes us bad people...
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A new hip hop song re-imagines “F*ck tha Police” for the Smartphone generation...
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Who wants lasers and glitter when you can have a good old stick?...
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A conservative publication encourages its readers to revisit George Orwell’s “A Hanging,” and then re-examine their stance on capital punishment.
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Not homebrewed beer, not coffee, not artisan soda—the geekiest beverage is good old French bubbly...
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Sleek, clutter-free modernist homes are not for everybody. In fact, sometimes they’re not even for modernist architecture writers…
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Troubled Israeli youths get back on track by going off road...
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One person’s sleeptalk is another’s collectible recording...
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An architect embraces the economic slowdown...
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An aspiring actor endures the indignity of auditioning for commercials...
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Photographers restage and recreate iconic works of art by painters from Rembrandt to van Gogh in surprising ways, both paying homage to the artists and offering cultural criticism….
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Seeing the world in black and white (with subtitles)...
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If you’re not familiar with K-Pop, here’s an introduction to one of the most influential music genres on the planet...
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“Made by Hand” is a film series that shows the beautiful, painstaking work that goes into artisanal products...
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A conductor’s unexpected path to Carnegie Hall...
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After more than 150 years, the great American soda fountain still inspires...
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After nearly four years of prolonged economic struggle people were bound to start asking: Where is the music that speaks to my problems? The answer to this question may be closer than you think...
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Sketch artist Gary Bedard drew Occupy protestors each with a dollar bill taped over his or her mouth, saying, “The dollar bill speaks to ending silence on corporate greed”...
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Is there a better way to teach students about war than glorifying and apologizing for violence?...
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Fashion may be a moving target, but one thing is for sure: Naming babies after living politicians and celebrities is out of style...
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Art Director Stephanie
Glaros explains the process behind an Utne Reader illustration…
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Ben Grasso’s spectacular paintings expose the American dream for what it really is: an empty house broken into a million pieces...
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Esko Lönnberg’s avant-garde documentary about obscure Finnish rock band Circle plunges into the deep end of post-modern cinematography...
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There's only one way to get a sense of America’s food waste: dumpster diving!...
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Kenneth Bowser’s documentary portrays Phil Ochs like the hero of a silver-screen Western...
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The siege of Nanking has been chronicled in a number of dramas and documentaries—but none as lush and majestic as this recent Chinese epic...
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Like Dead Can Dance before them, Prince Rama's spiritually tinted music transcends both creed and genre...
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Banjoist Jake Schepps adroitly balances the refined and the rustic on his arrangements of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók's folk music...
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Asa's Beautiful Imperfection is a sparkling pop album colored with exciting international touchstones...
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A photo essay from Shannon Galpin of Mountain2Mountain who rode through Afghanistan by bike and motorcycle...
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When times are tough, people tend to seek art out. This piece kicks off a four-part series examining how the art of today's Great Recession compares to that of two crisis moments of the past -- the Great Depression of the 1930s and the 1970s Recession.
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Our country is in need of a reinvigorated discussion about the death penalty. Here’s a cultural to-do list to get you prepared...
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Under the candy-pink veneer of pop culture website The Frisky hides a true feminist heartbeat. Just check out Today’s Lady News….
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After considering 15,000 submissions from more than 190 countries, an online jury chose a logo they hope will become an internationally recognized symbol for human rights...
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Through shows like the highly acclaimed The Wire, Generation Kill, and Treme, David Simon has shown that television can be more than a tool for appeasing audiences and stoking ratings. It can be a medium that forces us to reconsider our world....
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Architect Peter Williams, who knows firsthand that poor housing results in poor health, is on a mission to design healthy homes for impoverished communities in the UK; Cameroon; Saint-Marc, Haiti; and beyond, through his nonprofit Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments (ARCHIVE)...
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Stanford University cognitive scientist Lera Borditsky conducts groundbreaking research on how language shapes thoughts, making her a figure of controversy among traditional linguists like Noam Chomsky. Boroditsky makes the bold claim that “different languages invite speakers to develop different cognitive skills.”...
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Following the successful path of community-supported agriculture programs, two arts organizations develop a similar program for the art world...
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As the old saying goes, “One man’s dry cleaner shop is another man’s concert hall.”...
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Rock ’n’ roll helped America win the Cold War. India’s film industry threatens to take down Islamic Fundamentalism.
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From the seat of a tricycle rickshaw, Beijing-based artist Nicholas Hanna steers the art of temporary calligraphy into the fast lane...
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