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  • Sisters Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave have a new film The White Countess -- the first feature film they've ever appeared in together. They discuss how their relationship as sisters has helped them through years of performing on stage and screen.
  • The "Freedom Convoy" began last month as a caravan of truck drivers who planned to drive to Ottawa to voice their opposition to the Canadian government's cross-border vaccine mandate.
  • Andy Garcia produced, directed and stars in The Lost City. He even wrote the music. The film is based on a screenplay by the late novelist Guillermo Cabrera-Infante. It's set in 1950s Havana on the brink of the Cuban revolution.
  • Salem Health in Oregon is a major hospital, but the omicron onslaught has strained the staff like never before. Still, they show up. For the patients, and for each other. And some see signs of hope.
  • At the turn of the century, some called San Francisco the Paris of the West. The 1906 earthquake leveled most of the city's theaters and artists' haunts. But the arts community rebounded to lead the city's recovery.
  • Singer, songwriter and guitarist Charlie Sexton burst out of Texas in 1985 with the hit, "Beat's so Lonely." He spent the next two decades working with veteran musicians such as the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards and Ron Wood and Bob Dylan. Sexton's latest CD is titled "Cruel and Gentle Things."
  • How do we perceive time? How do we form and retrieve memories? Alain de Botton, author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, tells Linda Wertheimer how the French novelist might answer such philosophical questions.
  • Doctors are noting an increase in cases of kids presenting with long COVID — a huge constellation of symptoms, many debilitating, that can follow even mild infections.
  • Historian Julian Zelizer argues Biden should “promote policies that address racism in policing, sentencing and prisons because it is the right thing to do,” even though it may be unpopular.
  • Marie Antoinette has been a subject for both biographers and novelists. Since before her beheading by French revolutionaries, her life has been analyzed and mythologized. Biographer Antonia Fraser and novelist Sena Jeter Naslund Offer a peek at the life of Marie Antoinette.
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