Lynn Levy

Lynn Levy appears in the following:

Eat, Pray, Work: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Secret to Creativity

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Elizabeth Gilbert shares advice for being creative from her new book, “Big Magic.” Turns out it might be something you know already. 

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Shaken and Stirred by a Black 007

Thursday, September 03, 2015

If Idris Elba is “too street” to play James Bond, will we ever have a black 007?

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Alice Cooper Will Not Stop Dying

Thursday, September 03, 2015

When Alice Cooper burst onto the scene, he was denounced as Satanic and a bad influence. But one of his biggest fans, Groucho Marx, understood that “Coop” was rehabilitating vaudeville.

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Lily Tomlin’s Audacious Life

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Lily Tomlin has squeezed more out of life than most people, but she has a few words of advice for her younger self: “Barrel through life with all the audacity you can.”

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Infinite Jester: Jason Segel Plays David Foster Wallace

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Jason Segel isn’t playing a sweet stoner in “The End of the Tour” — he’s playing doomed genius David Foster Wallace. How’d that happen?

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The Bird and the Bee Live In-Studio

Thursday, August 06, 2015

Inara George and Greg Kurstin — The Bird and the Bee — managed to record their gorgeous new record around busy family schedules by meeting up just once a week.

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How to Make a Moth

Wednesday, August 05, 2015

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Two artists and programmers built an automated moth generator that turns tweets into gorgeous insects. The only question is: why?
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To Kill a Childhood Hero

Thursday, July 16, 2015

In Harper Lee’s newly published novel, “Go Set a Watchman,” Atticus Finch has turned into a bigot. "LA Times" reviewer David Ulin says we should have seen it coming.

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This Pioneering Cosmonaut Will Be Your New Heroine, Thanks to "Orange is the New Black"

Wednesday, July 08, 2015

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WNYC
I knew nothing about the first woman in space — I didn't even know her name. That is, until "Orange is the New Black" sent me into a research wormhole. 
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Live In Studio: Braids

Thursday, June 11, 2015

The members of the band Braids have been making music since high school, and that familiarity shows on their latest album, “Deep in the Iris.”

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What Do Dolphins Talk About?

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Denise Herzing has been studying the same pod of wild dolphins for 30 years. But this year, things are different.

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Home Is Where Your Dolphin Is

Thursday, August 21, 2014

In the 1960s, Margaret Howe had a very unusual roommate: a bottlenose dolphin named Peter.   

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Hello

Thursday, August 21, 2014

It's tough to make small talk with a stranger—especially when that stranger doesn't speak your language. (And he has a blowhole.)

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The Timekeeper's Things

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

On my way to the workshop, I pass a haunted house. It's not October, not even close, so I'm pretty surprised to see scarecrows and plastic skeletons and—is that a hearse? Yes it is. It takes all my strength not to pull into the parking lot for a little off-season ...

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The Lost Mushrooms of Oceania

Monday, June 02, 2014

Steve Axford’s photographs seem to come from a slightly enchanted place. It’s a place where the pale brown lumps I think of as "mushrooms" have been transformed into a host of strange new creatures—some shimmering, some translucent, some hairy, some hideous, but all magic.

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Fluffier, Brighter, Weirder Dinosaurs

Thursday, April 24, 2014

John Conway paints pictures of old dead things. But he doesn't paint them like they're old and dead—he paints them like maybe they’re outside your window right now, looking at you.
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Voyager OUT

Thursday, September 12, 2013

NASA is reporting that Voyager 1 has finally left the heliosphere and is now cruising through interstellar space!

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Blood

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The metaphor, magic, and money coursing through our veins...

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If You Prick Us ...

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Few things have such power over us as blood.

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Voyager Is Such a Tease

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Producer Lynn Levy is STILL waiting for one of the Voyager crafts to make interstellar history as the first human-made object to leave the solar system...
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