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Blog Entries by Dan Lybarger from 04/2011

Picasso's Going Down: Steve Melcher on That Is Priceless

| Posted 04.08.2011
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One reason classical paintings are so ripe for new titles is that a lot of them portray old stories that everyone's long forgotten. With religious paintings being inherently so serious, they're the perfect comedy set-up.

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Contagious Vacations: Sarah Vowell on Hawaii's History

| Posted 04.14.2011
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In her books, audio essays (for public radio's This American Life) and speeches, Sarah Vowell may be the only person on earth who can describe her vac...

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The Luck of the Irishman: An Interview With Historian Rick Porrello

| Posted 04.18.2011
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During the 1960s and '70s, Danny Greene embarrassed the Cleveland mob by doing something that no other enemy of the syndicate had ever done: he survived.

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A Few More Words on Tim Hetherington

| Posted 04.22.2011
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We journalists are often told that we're supposed to be separated from the events we cover, but the honesty and the power of Tim Hetherington's work emerged because he genuinely cared about the individuals and events he documented.

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Home in Exile: An Interview With Eran Riklis

| Posted 04.26.2011
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Having grown up around the world, it's not surprising that Tel Aviv-based director Eran Riklis refuses to settle on a genre, even within the same movie.

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The 'Grind' in Grindhouse: Michael Biehn and Jennifer Blanc on The Victim

| Posted 04.27.2011
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When I told Michael Beihn, an actor who has starred in everything from The Terminator to Tombstone, that his writing and directing debut, The Victim, was sleazy, he took it as a compliment.

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