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Do you believe in love at first sight? 

James Bennett says he experienced... well... something like it. 

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Dame Evelyn Glennie is considered one of the greatest percussionists alive today.  She’s also deaf. 

To watch/listen to her perform CLICK HERE.

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What do you do when you’re an African-American filmmaker living in a country full of people who dress up in blackface at Christmastime?  You pick up a camera. Roger Ross Williams  talks about his new documentary,  "Blackface." It's about the traditional Dutch celebration of "Black Pete" -- a Santa's helper who dresses in blackface, an Afro wig, red lipstick and big hoop earrings.

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One more story from Walter Moskowitz, the last of the Bowery Scab Merchants. Walter tattoos 80 men in a day.

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Around the country Governors of both parties are balancing their state budgets by making public sector employees pay more. Why?

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Photographer Rachel Sussman has documented 30 of the oldest living things in the world.

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Jane Austen abandoned her novel "Lady Susan," but filmmaker Whit Stillman has revivied it - in a new film and novel, both called "Love and Friendship." He talks about why he loves Austen and the 18th century.

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The contemporary art world was shocked in 2010 when the prestigious Turner prize went to a voice installation, the work of the Scottish artist Susan Philipsz.

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