Neda Ulaby
Stories
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Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker of 'Super Size Me', dies at 53
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Remembering Steve Albini, rock musician and engineer, who died at 61
Musician Steve Albini fronted the bands Big Black and Shellac and engineered albums for Nirvana, the Pixies and PJ Harvey. He died this week at 61.
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Arts & Life
Here are the winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes
Pulitzer Prizes honor American achievements in journalism, letters and drama, and music. They are widely recognized as the most prestigious awards in their field within the United States.
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Arts & Life
Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.
The National Trust's annual list includes Eatonville, the all-Black Florida town memorialized by Zora Neale Hurston, Alaska's Sitka Tlingit Clan houses, and the home of country singer Cindy Walker.
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Arts & Life
Taylor Swift set a new record this week with, well, records. The vinyl kind.
Taylor Swift, whose latest album is now the first to surpass one billion Spotify streams in a single week, has smashed another record as well.
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Environment
A professor worried no one would read an algae study. So she had it put to music
Professors and students at the University of South Florida mapped pitch, rhythm and duration to data about algae blooms and depletion of coral reefs to create an original composition.
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Sports
Las Vegas Aces make WNBA history as first team to sell out season tickets
The two-time WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces have accomplished a first for the women's pro basketball league, selling out of season ticket memberships for 2024.
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Arts & Life
This classical ensemble is tuned in to today's headlines
The Apollo Chamber Players in Houston, Texas, create concerts in response to book banning, the refugee crisis, the war in Gaza and other world events. Thousands of people attend their performances.
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Arts & Life
Celebrated stylemaker and self-named 'geriatric starlet' Iris Apfel dies at age 102
Apfel's late-in-life emergence as a stylemaker was celebrated in magazines and museums. Her company made reproduction fabrics for the White House for decades. She became a fashion model at 97.
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Comedian Richard Lewis, nicknamed 'The Prince of Pain,' dies at 76
Comedy fans are mourning the death of Richard Lewis, one of the stars of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. Lewis died Tuesday of a heart attack.