November 20, 2009
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    Gallery Crawl : Sparrow Lane -- November 2009, Pt. 1

    Nov 20, 2009

    View the Gallery Crawl interview with photographer Holly Andres. Her Sparrow Lane series, on view at SF's Robert Koch Gallery through December 24, depicts a mysterious narrative about the transitional space between girlhood and womanhood.

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    Pop Culture : Video of the Week: Clean It Up

    Posted by Emmanuel Hapsis at 12:00PM

    Nov 19, 2009

    Every Thursday, the KQED Arts blog features a new Video of the Week to help you forget that it isn't Friday yet. Chicago-based street artist Goons uses paper and stop-motion to create a one minute clip for all the clean-freaks and germaphobes out there.

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    The Writers' Block : Beautiful

    Posted by Amy Reed at 6:00AM

    Nov 19, 2009

    Amy Reed reads a passage from her debut novel, Beautiful, about a young girl who trades her good-girl existence for a swift downward spiral tinged with drugs and abuse.

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NPR Topics: Arts & Culture
  • James Franco Checks In To 'General Hospital'

    The star of Milk and Pineapple Express — and a little movie franchise called Spider-Man — will be spending some time in Port Charles over the next couple of months. His guest-starring stint may help "freshen the image of daytime," says the soap opera's executive producer.

  • 'Broken Embraces': The Very Picture Of Romance

    Brace yourself: Things are about to get meta. Pedro Almodovar's latest picture strings a colorfully knotty love story across layers of dark film-within-a-film intrigue. Complex of plot, deft in its blending of comedy and melodrama, and a treasure trove of golden-age movie references, the film is what you might call a lushly tragic lark — a heartfelt, if not quite heartbreaking, paean to romance and to the romance of cinema. (Recommended)

  • Real-Life Physics Problems Star On TV

    The stars of The Big Bang Theory are two fictional Caltech physicists, but the physics problems they study are real. Bill Prady, the program's co-creator and executive producer, talks about including real-world science in the script, from dark matter to magnetic monopoles.