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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Essayist Beverly Lapp explains what "The Star Spangled Banner" means to her as a Mennonite.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Artist Natasha Nicholson makes contemporary cabinets of curiosity, but not simply to gaze at – they are her world. Nicholson lives inside her own art, highly curated rooms in an old storefront in Madison, Wisconsin.

Her solo show that reproduces her ENTIRE studio space is at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

No one expected the latest inspiration: "Ed Gein: The Musical."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Film critic & scholar Emanuel Levy grew up on the movies.  In Israel they had no television and so his parents would take him to the movies once or twice a week.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Cavicchi spent three years talking to his fellow  Bruce Springsteen fans. The result is a book called “Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

British comedian Dave Gorman decided to meet as many of the people who share his name as possible.  His hobby turned into a hit one-man stage show and a book called “Are You Dave Gorman?”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Faith Adiele flunked out of Harvard and went to Thailand to study languages. There, she became the first ordained Black Buddhist Nun.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Edmund White recommends Henry Green's 1950 novel, "Nothing."

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