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Tara Betts is a feminist poet who uses her art for activism. Originally from Kankakee, Illinois, she's an award-winning slam poet and Brave New Voices National Youth Poetry Slam champ. She founded the Young Chicago Author’s GirlSpeak and was a writer-in-residence at Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center for two ...

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Sarah is a co-founder and Executive Director of Kundiman, a Filipino term for a patriotic love song, that now represents a network of writers and poets dedicated to the cultivation of new Asian-American writing. Sarah studied Creative Writing at Brown, did a fellowship at the ...

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If the Armory Show’s high art prices aren’t quite your thing, there’s another, more humble art affair taking place this weekend – the Slideluck Potshow.

It’s an old-fashioned potluck, where participants bring a dish to share, ...

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Last night, the music and dance spectacle "Spirit of Uganda" began performances at the Joyce Theater. The show’s dancers and musicians are all children from Uganda, many of them orphans, between the ages of 8 and 22.

Betty Nakato has been performing with the group since ...

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The New York philharmonic has arrived in Pyongyang North Korea, for an historic and controversial concert. WNYC’s John Schaefer has been traveling with the orchestra. We hear from John, and from the principle bass player of the Philharmonic, John Deak. We also speak with Damian ...

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The Ronald K. Brown Dance company, Evidence, opened its season at the Joyce theater this week. At a recent rehearsal, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the sounds of live drumming filled the space. Dancers struck moves informed by styles from Cuba, West Africa, and the U.S. Brown says ...

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Last night at the Rubin Museum of Art, a musician, a filmmaker and a neuroscientist got together to talk about out-of-body experiences. It was part of the museums’ Brainwaves series, which explores how music, art and meditation affect the brain. Jazz composer and pianist Vijay ...

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Ingmar Bergman, Aaron Copland, T.S. Elliot and Simone DeBeauvoir are all on display in a new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum. The exhibition presents 67 portraits by the photographer Irving Penn, who photographed some of the greatest creative minds of the 20th century. ...

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A rezoning plan to create year-round attractions at Coney Island, plus parkland and luxury hotels was presented to the public last night. City officials held a lengthy slide show and a question and answer presentation for Coney Island locals. The meeting got loud at times ...

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The recent losses on Wall Street are expected to cause pain for the city's budget next year. The Independent Budget Office estimates that profits last year dropped 75 percent and that means job losses and lower tax revenues. IBO director Ronnie Lowenstein says New York ...

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Jon Stewart was back on the air last night, but he said it wasn't the same show as ten weeks ago.

STEWART: From now on, until the end of the strike, we will be doing "A Daily Show" with John Stewart not "The Daily Show." So, ...

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Slideshow: Kara Walker

Kara Walker at The Whitney Museum of Art

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HOST: This is the voice of Kara Walker – a young artist who’s being celebrated in an exhibition that opens today ...

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In last night’s Democratic debate in New Hampshire, Senator Hillary Clinton kept her cards close to the vest.

REPORTER: She declined to answer questions about whether she’d support a hypothetical Israeli attack on an Iranian nuclear facility, whether she’d support taxing the wealthy to support social ...

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Twenty-one people in 8 states may be ill after eating hamburgers made by a New Jersey-based company that may have been tainted with E. coli bacteria. That's according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

REPORTER: A CDC spokeswoman says 3 cases - 2 in ...

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Some more on last night's Democratic presidential debate. Senator Hillary Clinton walked a fine line last night between associating herself with her husband's policies and distancing herself.

REPORTER: When the debate moderator Tim Russert asked the candidates whether they agreed with an unnamed guest on "Meet ...

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Mayor Bloomberg and his top deputy, Patti Harris, travel to Europe later today - so who runs the city while he's away? Bloomberg says the city charter isn't clear about whether Harris continues to function as mayor if she's also out of the country - ...

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Health officials say Legionnaires' disease has killed 3 people at two Long Island senior citizens' facilities within the last few days. Two others are sick with the lung disease.

REPORTER: Health officials say 2 people died of the illness at Sunharbor Manor, a nursing home in ...

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Students and officials at St. John's University are praising its new emergency response system after authorities closed in quickly on a freshman they say came to campus with a rifle in his bag.

The alert system notifies students and faculty members via text messages, phone calls ...

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War, love, leadership and honor – these are themes at the heart of the play, Iphigenia 2.0. It’s an updated version of Euripides’ tale of personal and political sacrifice during wartime. It was written by Charles Mee, the Playwright in Residence this year at the ...

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With a week to go before the first trial, the families of fourteen September 11th victims have reached a settlement. Following the attacks, Congress created the September 11th victim compensation fund which distributed $7 billion to survivors and families of victims.

But some families refused payment ...