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4:12 pm
Sat June 16, 2012

Egypt Faces Tense Election For New President

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Originally published on Sat June 16, 2012 4:24 pm

Egyptians began two days of voting to elect the nation's first president since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. The polling comes days after an Egyptian high court dissolved the country's first freely elected parliament and the election now reflects the deep divisions in the country that has been unsettled since its revolution last year.

Arts & Life
3:23 pm
Sat June 16, 2012

Embracing The Quirkiness Of Djuna Barnes

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Before publishing the plays and novels she's now known for, women's rights advocate Djuna Barnes was a journalist and illustrator.
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Writer Djuna Barnes had herself force-fed in 1914 to help her document the experience of English suffragettes on hunger strikes.
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Barnes shared her account of being force-fed in what curator Catherine Morris describes as a very moving piece in New York World Magazine. (Click here to read it.)
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Barnes' 1914 Trend magazine cover of a doughboy, or American soldier, in the trenches shows the extent of her political engagement in the early days of World War I.
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In a 1913 Brooklyn Daily Eagle piece, Barnes wrote about suffragist schools that train women to assert their rights in a ladylike fashion. (Click here to read it.)
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As in her Daily Eagle piece and this 1917 New York Morning Telegraph Magazine spread, Barnes often provided illustrations for her stories. (Click here to read the story.)
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Originally published on Sat June 16, 2012 6:06 pm

A writer, illustrator and provocateur in the Roaring '20s, Djuna Barnes stood out.

"She was much more interested in embracing the quirky and embracing that idea that became so famous in feminist circles half a century later," Catherine Morris says, "the idea that the personal is political."

Morris is the curator of a new exhibition of Barnes' writings and illustrations called "Newspaper Fictions" at the Brooklyn Museum's Sackler Center for Feminist Art.

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Music Interviews
3:03 pm
Sat June 16, 2012

One Father, Eight Sons, Nine Shiny Brass Bells

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The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble features eight of trumpeter Kelan Phil Cohran's sons.
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Originally published on Tue November 27, 2012 2:52 pm

Over the course of 85-year-old Kelan Phil Cohran's long career as an avant-garde jazz trumpeter, he's toured the world, performing with everyone from Sun Ra to Sarah Vaughan.

When not on the road, Cohran has worked as a music educator, teaching music in schools and prisons, and to his own children.

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Monkey See
12:32 pm
Sat June 16, 2012

Cheap Date Saturday: 'Operation Cupcake' Versus 'Piranhaconda'

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Dean Cain, left, in Operation Cupcake. The Piranhaconda, right, in Piranhaconda.
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Kee Facts: A Few Things You Didn't Know
11:15 am
Sat June 16, 2012

Follow The Money: On The Trail Of Watergate Lore

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A photograph of the Watergate complex that was used as an exhibit in the trial of G. Gordon Liddy.
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Anthony Ulasewicz, shown here in 1973, acknowledged that he delivered more than $200,000 in hush money to the Watergate burglars.
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"Follow the money" – a phrase that's now part of our national lexicon — was supposedly whispered to reporter Bob Woodward by Deep Throat as a way to cut through the lies and deceptions and find the truth about the Watergate scandal. The so-called third-rate burglary that happened 40 years ago this weekend ended the presidency of Richard Nixon. But did Mark Felt, the former associate director of the FBI who admitted to being Deep Throat in 2005, ever really say "follow the money"?

He did not.

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