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February 24, 2013 NPR's Linda Holmes and NPR Music's Stephen Thompson team up with entertainment writer Marc Hirsch to live-blog the 85th Annual Academy Awards. Plus off-kilter commentary from the red carpet, courtesy of Wait, Wait ... producer Ian Chillag. Your comments encouraged, too!

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February 20, 2013 Ready to check off your Oscar ballot? Catch up on coverage of this year's Best Picture nominees with reviews, interviews and features from across the NPR network.

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February 13, 2013 Images of holey foods, like Swiss cheese, aerated chocolate and lotus pods, are freaking out people on the Internet. Urban Dictionary has even coined a term for it: trypophobia. These photographs may make your skin crawl and stomach churn, but here's why you shouldn't panic.

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February 4, 2013 WXPNHear two tracks from the up-and-coming post-punk band's first full-length album, Light Up Gold.

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January 27, 2013 On the 40th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords, which ended direct U.S. military involvement and established an end to the Vietnam War, we look back with images from Life's legendary photographer Larry Burrows.

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January 16, 2013 Sandy Carson documented Galveston, Texas, in the years following Hurricane Ike's landfall in 2008. He finds that recovery has been slow, and that destruction is still part of the landscape.

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January 12, 2013 Interactive: Sonia Sotomayor shares intimate details about her life along with personal family photos. From a diabetes diagnosis to her father's alcoholism and her cousin's overdose, it was a long road to the Supreme Court.

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January 3, 2013 The TV drama Downton Abbey touches on many historical events as it traces the lives of an English estate's family and staff. The show's third season starts Jan. 6 on PBS; in the meantime, test your knowledge of its historical context — and some plot points — with our quiz.

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January 2, 2013 Michelle Frankfurter documents Central American migrants as they make the harrowing journey through Mexico to the U.S.

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December 20, 2012 Even if you can't go to Everest, you can come close with this amazing interactive image. The most intrepid mountaineers haven't seen the mountain quite like this.

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December 19, 2012 With publicity campaigns, radio jingles and pinups, the government helped eliminate the parasitic disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still fighting malaria at home and abroad.

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December 19, 2012 Mark Menjivar collaborated with former refugees from El Salvador's civil war to make portraits that convey their strength and dedication to their homeland.

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December 18, 2012 Global deaths from malaria have dropped sharply in the past decade, thanks in part to powerful drugs called artemisinins. But on the border between Thailand and Myanmar, doctors are starting to see cracks in artemisinin's armor. The medicine is working more slowly, and sometimes not at all.

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