Neda Ulaby
Stories
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How one influential Irish musician in America celebrates St. Patrick's Day
Joanie Madden founded the Celtic supergroup Cherish The Ladies. She tells us about what she calls "March Madness" for Irish musicians and the song that's most meaningful for her to play this year.
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NPS takes down web pages dedicated to transgender activists and LGBTQ history
This is part of an ongoing move by the federal government to remove and alter National Park Service webpages related to LGBTQ history.
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Trump is a professional wrestling fan. Here's how his politics echo the sport
It's well known that President Trump is a devotee of professional wrestling. Pundits often describe his moves in the White House in wrestling terms: smackdowns, cage fights and so on. We ask how the wrestling world may be informing his second term.
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Gene Hackman, who thrived playing the tough guy, dies at 95
Hackman epitomized a 1970s, edgy, tightly wound masculinity. He appeared in more than 100 movies and TV shows, and won Oscars for his performances in The French Connection and Unforgiven.
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First known cookbook by a Black American woman gets new edition 160 years later
Malinda Russell's A Domestic Cookbook was first published in 1866. It contains least a hundred recipes for sweets, plus recipes for shampoo and cologne – and remedies for toothaches.
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Archivists share recordings from the Battle of Iwo Jima 80 years ago
The Library of Congress has preserved recordings from Marine Corp combat correspondents sent into the field during the battles at Iwo Jima 80 years ago. The correspondents recorded everything from "choral rituals and music in the islands of the Pacific" to interviews with soldiers and the sounds of battle.
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New board elects President Trump chair of Kennedy Center
"It is a great honor to be chairman of the Kennedy Center, especially with this amazing Board of Trustees. We will make the Kennedy Center a very special and exciting place!" Trump said.
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The Smithsonian will close its diversity office and freeze federal hiring
The Smithsonian isn't a federal agency, but it gets much of its funding from federal appropriations.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer has died at 95
Satirical cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter Jules Feiffer has died at the age of 95. He was the illustrator of the children's classic "The Phantom Tollbooth."
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Gaza and the moon make biennial most-endangered list
The World Monuments Fund list seeks to raise awareness and funds to help preserve the sites it spotlights. Africa's Swahili Coast, Maine's lighthouses and Buddhist grottoes in China are also in peril.