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You're a Complicated Man, Charlie Brown
Peanuts comic strip creator Charles Schulz led a much darker life than anyone ever realized, and he put his troubles into the funny pages every day.
Russian author Irina Reyn
For her first novel Reyn took Tolstoy’s 'Anna Karenina' and wrote a modern update set among Russian immigrants in Queens.
Design of the baseball cap
Lifelong baseball fan and graphic designer Steven Heller looks at the quintessentially American piece of headgear -- the baseball cap.
Computer Art
The visual arts world has been slow to embrace computers. Some forward-thinking collectors hope to change that.
"Spore" video game creator Will Wright
Will Wright, creator of the “Sims,†shows how his new game “Spore†lets players control the evolution of their very own species.
The power of art as propaganda
In "Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State," Steven Heller describes how famous tyrannies used architecture and design for propaganda and control.
Design for the Real World: Rock Band T-Shirt
Once upon a time, wearing the Sex Pistols or Ramones on your chest was its own act of rebellion.
Patti LuPone plays Mama Rose in "Gypsy"
Patti LuPone has made a Broadway career out of playing powerful women. Maria Callas, Eva Perón, and now, a Tony-winning performance as Mama Rose in the classic musical "Gypsy."
Stories from an artists colony
New Hampshire’s MacDowell Colony gave artists a retreat in the woods -- Aaron Copland wrote "Billy the Kid" there.
"Little House" the Musical premiers
The stories by Laura Ingalls Wilder -- about the American frontier in the late 1800s -- get new life as a musical.
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