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FDR Presidential Library and Museum
At home with FDR
The qualities that FDR cultivated — fortitude, equanimity, compassion, and transcendence — to live a prodigiously fruitful life in spite of extreme debilitation were the qualities that enabled him to lead the nation out of the morass of the Great Depression and through the horrors of World War II.
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Lightning Rod Special's 'Let the Dog See the Rabbit'
Choreographed gestures at the Rotunda
Part museum exhibition and part performance art, Let the Dog See the Rabbit served up a plate of sumptuous delicacies with a side of comedy.
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Simon Curtis's 'Woman in Gold'
The most brazen theft of them all
Woman in Gold tells one of Hollywood’s favorite stories, justice against the odds. In this case, it happens to be true.
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The end of 'Mad Men'
The cynical redemption of Don Draper
If the purpose of the retreat is to figure out who you really are, how you feel about that, and how to recognize love, then isn’t it an act of radical honesty and self-acceptance for Don to embrace himself as a person who works best when he spins his dreams into brilliant ad copy?
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Philadelphia's Magic Gardens as a private example of public art
Losing the border patrol
While great art has been created under the confines of public limitation, the Magic Gardens mosaics reveal what can be created without such restraints. It is art needing no justification, no explanation, no critique — it is just pure experience of its existence.
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Piffaro and Laughing Bird celebrate Cipriano de Rore
Who is Cipriano de Rore? And why are we giving him a birthday party?
Piffaro celebrated a 16th-century master who’s been neglected by the early music movement.
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Is the Food Network making us fat?
While the Food Network has its share of old-fashioned cooking shows, hosted by pleasant, chatty cooks, each with a personal schtick, the network's dominant subgenres are the cooking competition and the eating travelogue.
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Concert Operetta Theater's 'Fledermaus'
The original Batman
An effervescent performance by Philadelphia’s Concert Operetta Theater demonstrates why Fledermaus is the prime example of the comic opera.
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Richard Avedon's Family Affairs at the NMAJH
Looking history in the eye
Richard Avedon's series of portraits of the people who ran the country was powerful in 1976; in some ways it’s even more powerful today, with our additional knowledge of how things turned out.
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When Tchaikovsky came to Philadelphia
Tchaikovsky's charm
On May 18, 1891, Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky arrived in Philadelphia to conduct the last performance of his American tour, following his triumphant opening of Carnegie Hall.
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