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...contrast to common practice in commercial radio and TV, public-radio stations don't have to affiliate exclusively with one network. Most also pay carriage fees to PRI for such popular offerings as This American Life, a slice-of-life feature show, and Studio 360, starring culture critic Kurt Andersen. PRI also distributes most of the shows produced by Minnesota Public Radio, including Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion...
...image and its reality. Not all the work is quite so intimate or quotidian, but neither is there a deliberate attempt to become the next sensation by piling on the shock value. Dexter Dalwood's Ceaucescu's Execution (earlier works include imagined views of Bill Gates' Bedroom and Kurt Cobain's Greenhouse) disturbs mainly by inference. A traditional oil on canvas, it refers to the patriotic legends of 19th century history painting. There is no glory here, though. All we see is the detritus of revolution: blood vividly stains the walls of a deserted ballroom stripped of everything but some...
ARRESTED. COURTNEY LOVE, 38, rock-star widow of Kurt Cobain; for verbally abusing the cabin crew on a flight from Los Angeles to London; in London. After British police released her with a warning, Love said the event had been exaggerated, and explained, "My daughter always said I had a potty mouth...
...Parkinson's disease; in New York City. A stickler for quality who made just 14 movies in a three-decade career, he popularized the duo of Robert Redford and Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973) and made acclaimed film versions of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and John Irving's The World According to Garp...
...more than off-the-rack items. Jupiter Research found in a recent study that more than half of consumers were willing to pay $10 extra to custom-order a pair of $50 slacks--but not much more. "The economy's bad," says Madison Riley of retail consultants Kurt Salmon Associates. "But if it's not going to stop people spending, they'll make for darn sure what they do spend is on the best quality...