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4/26/2013 9:33 AM | Mark Memmott | NPR |
George Jones in the late 1980s

Country superstar George Jones, known for "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and a long string of other hits, has died.

He was 81.

4/17/2013 9:34 AM | Heidi Glenn | NPR |
Left: One of Piet Mondrian's grid-like color block compositions. Right: Caitlin Freeman's cake homage.

As an artist, Caitlin Freeman found her calling in cake.

Freeman started out wanting to be an art photographer. But one day, while still in art school, she came across Display Cakes, artist Wayne Thiebaud's 1963 painting of frosted confections, during a visit to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The image was so arresting, it stayed with her for years, and later inspired her to set off on a completely different career path: baking.

4/14/2013 9:50 AM | Frank Langfitt | NPR |
PSY

There was another big story on the Korean peninsula over the weekend, but it wasn't about the guy in the north with the missiles and the threats. No, this story was about the guy in the south with the shades and the goofy dance moves, South Korean K-Pop star PSY.

4/12/2013 12:47 PM | CLAIRE O'NEILL | NPR |
Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

Mike Brodie's life, when narrated by an outsider, seems a lot like free association — where one thing leads to the next, leads to the next, etc.

Before he discovered trains, Brodie was bagging groceries in Pensacola, Fla., and really into BMX. Then he met a girl. She worked at the Chinese restaurant in the same strip mall and, he says, "she was like a punk rocker."

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