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5/1/2013 12:32 PM | David Edelstein | NPR |
In Ramin Bahrani's At Any Price, Zac Efron stars as a teen rebelling against his family and dreaming of becoming a professional race car driver. Sound like a generic summer pic? Critic David Edelstein says the film has "a hell of a sting in its tail."

Studios are putting most of their eggs in $100 million baskets these days, even as American independent filmmakers go hungry from lack of mainstream attention. But two of my favorite American indie writer-directors, Jeff Nichols and Ramin Bahrani, have new films with bigger stars than they've had before — films they hope will break through to wider audiences. The results, at least artistically, are impressive.

4/29/2013 8:45 AM | Susan Stamberg | NPR |
The elaborately tiled City Hall subway station in New York City ? still extant but now closed to the public, alas ? used the Guastavino touch to convince wary city dwellers to head underground for a train trip.

A Washington, D.C., museum wants you to spend some time looking up — to see soaring, vaulted tile ceilings built by a father-son team who left their mark on some of America's most important public spaces.

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.

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