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• Ronnie Wood: ‘Bowie’s death especially affected me – we were the same age’

  19-08-2017 19:00
  Veteran rocker Ronnie Wood, 70, on beating cancer, becoming a father again – to twins – and his retrospective book of his own artRonnie Wood and I meet a little prior to our interview at a central London hotel, bumping into each other in the lift. “Have I met you before?” he instantly asks. (No; though maybe, after all the years of rock’n’roll hedonism as a guitarist with the Rolling Stones, Wood has to play it safe and ask everybody.) Now 70, he became a new
  
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• Trump Pulls Out Of Participating In The Kennedy Center Honors

  19-08-2017 16:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A statement this morning reads "Each year, THE KENNEDY CENTER HONORS the careers and achievements of artists who have helped shape cultural life in the United States with a weekend that includes celebrations and events. The award recipients are recognized for their lifetime contributions in the arts and the positive change that they have made all over the world. The President and First Lady have decided not to participate in this year's activities to allow the honorees to celebrate without
  
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• Why The President's Arts And Humanities Council Quit As A Group

  19-08-2017 02:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kal Penn: "It became clear that the government became inoperative under this particular presidency. A lot of the work and the agencies have been frozen. There’s a big waste of taxpayer dollars. We had hope, but the president made comments that quite literally were in support of the domestic terrorists. It’s one thing to say you want to serve the programs you were appointed to serve, regardless of politics, but after a certain point . . . we just don’t want our names attached to
  
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• In The 1850s, A Scientist Decided To Study The Brain Like It Was A Secret Garden

  19-08-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For Santiago Ramón y Cajal the brain was a beautiful, inconceivably complex, and self-regulating ecosystem, and he set out to write the field guide to its flora and fauna: “Like the entomologist in pursuit of brightly colored butterflies, my attention hunted, in the flower garden of the gray matter, cells with delicate and elegant forms, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, the beating of whose wings may someday—who knows?—clarify the secret of mental life.”
  
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