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Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes is probably modern literature's most enduring character, more copied, tweaked, transformed and emulated than any other. Holmes was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was born May 22, 1859; the master detective first appeared in the novel A Study in Scarlet, written in 1887 when Doyle was 28 years old. In this rare video, Sir     More...

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Dead Man’s Bones, ‘Name in Stone’

Dead Man's Bones, the rock duo comprised of Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields, makes you wonder--is there anything Ryan cannot do? Here's the moody video from their single 'Name in Stone' that draws as much on rock as the American roots music tradition.     More...

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Remembering Roger Ebert

The last time Roger Ebert and I talked, which as at Sundance, we didn’t talk about movies… and of course we didn’t talk. Since cancer took the lower part of his jaw, Roger couldn’t talk, but he wrote incessantly. Our “talk” was done by emails and tweets, and Roger’s written voice was so much a part of him it was just like we were t    More...

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Cecilia Bartoli Unearths Rare Baroque Treasures

Five-time Grammy winner Cecilia Bartoli's new passion project is the album Mission, comprising works by virtually unknown Baroque Italian composer Agostino Steffani (1654-1728), as she explains -- and sings -- in this video.    More...

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