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Fine Art
4:24 am
Sat February 18, 2012

6 Miles Of Silver Ribbon: Locals Protest Christo

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Artist Christo finances his projects by selling design drawings like this one, a preparatory sketch for the Over the River project on Colorado's Arkansas River.
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Christo traveled thousands of miles to find a canyon that suits his Over the River project, but he faces opposition from some locals near his preferred site along the Arkansas River in Colorado.
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Christo stands next to one of his works at a 2010 exhibition in Paris about the Over the River project. If approved, the installation could begin in the fall.
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Bighorn Sheep Canyon in Colorado holds a chuckling ribbon of water, with a highway running alongside. Artist Christo wants to drape sections of it — almost 6 miles' worth — with long, billowing panels of silvery fabric.

"The silver-color fabric panel will absorb the color," he says. "In the morning, it will become rosy, in the middle of the day, platinum, and [during] the sunset, the fabric will become golden."

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Fresh Air Weekend
1:36 am
Sat February 18, 2012

Fresh Air Weekend: Viola Davis, Nathan Englander

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Viola Davis earned her first Oscar nomination with a small but memorable role in Doubt; she also has won a pair of Tony Awards for her work on Broadway.
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Originally published on Mon February 20, 2012 11:48 am

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:

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Music Interviews
5:46 pm
Fri February 17, 2012

Gretchen Peters: Personal Pain As Universal Truth

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Gretchen Peters' new album is Hello Cruel World.
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Country Music Award winner Gretchen Peters had an eventful 2010: The BP oil spill washed up on her doorstep, a good friend committed suicide, and her son announced that he's transgender. The last of those in particular, she says, got her thinking about personal conflict.

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The Two-Way
5:41 pm
Fri February 17, 2012

Let Them Eat Funnel Cake: A Napoleon-Based Theme Park for France

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A dark cloud passes over a statue of Napoleon in Vienna.
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By Xavier Lacombe

No celebrity can be truly world renown unless they have their own theme park. Mickey Mouse and Disney have theirs. Now, Napoleon might get his chance too.

Christian Mantei the head of Atout France, the tourism group supporting the endeavor, once told the The Economist that "bosses at Disneyland Paris once said that only Napoleon had the stature to take on Mickey Mouse".

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Music Interviews
5:27 pm
Fri February 17, 2012

Roberta Flack's Long And Winding Road

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Roberta Flack's new album, Let It Be Roberta, is a collection of reworked Beatles favorites.
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Roberta Flack has been singing in a way that plucks at the heartstrings since 1969, when she recorded the breakthrough song "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." She followed that hit with many, many more, including, "Killing Me Softly with His Song," "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You."

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