Azby Brown is an American architect who lives in Tokyo. He tells Jim Fleming how a Japanese family of four can live comfortably in a house under 1000 square feet in size.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Earlier this year a new show went up at the Milwaukee Art Museum, all about folk art. We stopped by to find the beauty behind folk art.
What is it exactly that we love about the movies? For Madelon Sprengnether, going to the movies prompted a journey of self discovery and helped her cope with the sudden death of her father. It all started with a Bengali film called "Pather Panchali."
For all the trend watching and forecasting, it has to be someone’s job to create the future… to come up with something truly new.
For decades, musician and producer Butch Vig has been doing just that. Vig says from the beginning, he wanted to make music that was different from what he was hearing in the mainstream.
When life gives you lemons, sometimes you make lemonade. And sometimes you write, and bake and play piano at three 3 am. That's what Dominique Browning did after she and her staff were let go when the magazine, "House and Garden" folded. She writes about getting to know herself in the book "Slow Love."
Christopher Moore talks about untranslatable words.
Deborah Treisman is fiction editor of The New Yorker magazine. George Saunders is one of her star writers. Treisman and Saunders join Steve Paulson to talk about writing and publishing short stories.
Ethan Watters is the author of “Urban Tribes.” Watters says that the TV show “Friends” is a good example of the kind of social group he’s talking about.
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