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Dan Nailen's always a fan of Salt Lake City's gallery stroll, but the approaching holidays make him even more enthusiastic.
In May of 2007, a massive tornado swept through the Kansas town of Greensburg, killing 11 and wiping out 95 percent of the town's structures. Since then, Greensburg has gained national recognition for its determination to rebuild as one of the greenest communities in America. But as Mayor Bob Dixson tells KUER's Jennifer Napier-Pearce, starting over has not been easy.
Security cameras at the new University of Utah observatory on Frisco Peak in southern Utah captured the brilliant flash of a meteor Tuesday night.
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If you've got complaints about today's entertainment industry, consider these words in the British periodical "Punch." It was 1847, and the writer bemoaned the public's "prevailing taste for deformity." It was the age of the freak show and in a new book University of Utah historian Nadja Durbach takes a look at characters like the Elephant Man and a hairy seven-year-old advertised as Darwin's "missing link." Monday, she joins us to talk about "otherness" and what it teaches us about ourselves.
For 10 years the aspiring artist Billy Pappas worked on one life-sized portrait. He had set out to reinvent realism - to invent a new art form. Doug talks to filmmaker Julie Checkoway about her new documentary "Waiting for Hockney." Checkoway followed Pappas through what some might call his compulsive, eccentric process - and on his quest to meet the one person he felt could validate his work. (Rebroadcast)
The British comedian Stephen Fry has always loved America. It began to figure largely in his imagination when he learned a shocking secret from his mother: he was almost born in New Jersey. His curiosity about the country led him on a journey through all 50 states, talking to people and experiencing the music, the food and the landscape that make it unique. In this prerecorded interview, Fry shares with Doug the experience of America through the eyes of an Englishman.
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