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Chamber Rebuffs Kirkwood Plan; Mayor Claims Survey Skewed

Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan is fighting back against a survey conducted by the city’s Chamber of Commerce which attacks his idea to limit the number of chain businesses in the downtown area.


Arts & Culture

The Secret Stars of Morton C. Bradley

As the beneficiaries of abstract artist Morton C. Bradley’s entire body of work, arts administrators at Indiana University face the task of reconstructing Bradley’s position in the scope of 20th-century art and ideas. “He was a true original,” reflected IU Art Museum director Heidi Gealt, “in the sense that he just followed his own path.”


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The Night David Hasselhoff Rocked The Berlin Wall

David Hasselhoff is best known for the TV shows Baywatch and Knight Rider, but to Germans he's a pop hero. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Hasselhoff reminisces about his song that became a soundtrack for that historic moment, "Looking for Freedom."

NPR Arts & Culture

Categories Fit For 'Radio'

To mark Liane Hansen's 20th anniversary hosting Weekend Edition Sunday, this puzzle is a game of categories using the word "radio." Will Shortz names the categories, and the guest names something in the categories beginning with each of the letters in "radio."

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