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Editor Rose Friedman, who helped shape NPR's cultural coverage, dies at 38 (opens the original)
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NPR has lost one of its finest journalists. For 15 years, Rose Friedman was an editor and reporter who helped shape NPR's arts and cultural coverage. She was one of the co-creators of the popular Books We Love reading guide and, most recently, helped lead NPR's America 250 series. Friedman died at home, of cancer, in New York City on Sept. 17 at the age of 38. Rose Friedman was an editor to the end. She said she wanted the second line of her obituary to acknowledge her role as a shop steward for
Yayoi Kusama, high priestess of polka dots with exhibit currently in Cincinnati, has died (opens the original)
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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, best known for her polka dot sculptures in eye-popping colors and shimmering "Infinity Rooms," has died. She was 97 years old. In a statement issued on Wednesday, her representative David Zwirner said Kusama passed away from "multiple organ failure" at a Tokyo hospital on Aug. 14. The wildly imaginative Kusama used her art to express her obsessions: Repetitive brushstrokes on dotted canvases she called infinity net paintings; giant orange and black, polka dotted pum
Yayoi Kusama, high priestess of polka dots, has died (opens the original)
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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, best known for her polka dot sculptures in eye-popping colors and shimmering "Infinity Rooms," has died. She was 97 years old. In a statement issued on Wednesday, her representative David Zwirner said Kusama passed away from "multiple organ failure" at a Tokyo hospital on Aug. 14. The wildly imaginative Kusama used her art to express her obsessions: Repetitive brushstrokes on dotted canvases she called infinity net paintings; giant orange and black, polka dotted pum
Death toll from a Bangkok music bar fire rises to 30, dozens remain in hospital (opens the original)
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BANGKOK — The death toll from a huge fire in a Bangkok music bar has increased to 30, officials said Tuesday. More than 70 people were injured, with 24 of them still in critical condition, according to a statement by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. The blaze at the Rong Beer Na Ladprao bar, the city's deadliest in 17 years, broke out late Sunday in a northern part of the Thai capital. Firefighters needed half an hour to bring it under control. The bar, which in Thai calls itself a brewe
Celebrating Elizabeth Blair: NPR honors retiring arts correspondent with this 'Encore' (opens the original)
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Finally, this Independence Day hour, the history of a most American song. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND") PETER, PAUL AND MARY: (Singing) This land is your land, this land is my land, from California to the New York island. SIMON: The song has become a standard in our schools and around campfires since Woody Guthrie wrote it in 1940. But as our colleague Elizabeth Blair reports, it has also always carried an edge. We replay her 2019 story from the series American Anthem this 250th
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