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How Does Christoph Niemann Make Art Look Effortless? With A Lot Of Work
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Author Interviews

How Does Christoph Niemann Make Art Look Effortless? With A Lot Of Work

The artist and illustrator says that behind every fun, whimsical sketch there are "100 very boring, unsexy steps." Niemann describes his creative process in his new book Sunday Sketching.

How Does Christoph Niemann Make Art Look Effortless? With A Lot Of Work

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With GPS And Graph Paper, Farmers Find A-maze-ing Ways To Bring In Cash

The theme of Mike's Maze this year is "See America," which commemorates the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. Courtesy of Warner Farm hide caption

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The Salt

With GPS And Graph Paper, Farmers Find A-maze-ing Ways To Bring In Cash

Using technology and math, farmers are creating elaborate corn maze designs, from replicas of fine art to Internet kitties. Labyrinths help make ends meet — they yield more cash per acre than crops.

Photography Writ Large: The Monumental Art Of Thomas Struth

Struth photographed Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in 2011. "They were actually quite nice together," he says of the experience. (Pictured: Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh, Windsor Castle 2011) Thomas Struth/Promised Gift to the National Gallery of Art from the Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker hide caption

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Photography

Photography Writ Large: The Monumental Art Of Thomas Struth

Struth is known for massive pictures of architecture and people looking at art in museums. But a few years ago, a commission to photograph the British royals pushed him out of his comfort zone.

Photography Writ Large: The Monumental Art Of Thomas Struth

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Sunday

Debbie Allen's 'Weapons' To Stop Gun Violence Are Dance And Music

Debbie Allen's FREEZE FRAME...Stop the Madness is a musical featuring dance, video and visual art that explores gun violence in cities. Lee Tonks/Courtesy of Debbie Allen Dance Academy hide caption

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Theater

Debbie Allen's 'Weapons' To Stop Gun Violence Are Dance And Music

Director, actor and choreographer Debbie Allen's multimedia musical Freeze Frame examines the lives of young people living in cities with the backdrop of violence and police shootings.

Debbie Allen's 'Weapons' To Stop Gun Violence Are Dance And Music

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Director Werner Herzog: 'You Can Throw Anything At Me'

For his latest documentary, Into the Inferno, filmmaker Werner Herzog traveled to volcanoes around the world, including this one in Vanuatu. Andrew Hreha/Netflix hide caption

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My Big Break

Director Werner Herzog: 'You Can Throw Anything At Me'

Filmmaker Werner Herzog says the biggest career break he can think of is that his drive to make movies has never been broken, despite many difficulties over the course of his career.

Director Werner Herzog: 'You Can Throw Anything At Me'

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In 'Thanks For The Money,' Comedian Joel McHale Lampoons Celebrity Memoirs

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Author Interviews

In 'Thanks For The Money,' Comedian Joel McHale Lampoons Celebrity Memoirs

McHale says the problem with the genre is a lot of celebrities don't have enough of a story to fill an entire book. ("My life certainly didn't.") So in Thanks for the Money, he makes stuff up.

In 'Thanks For The Money,' Comedian Joel McHale Lampoons Celebrity Memoirs

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Saturday

Not My Job: Quarterback Steve Young Gets Quizzed On Not So Great Grandsons

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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

Not My Job: Quarterback Steve Young Gets Quizzed On Not So Great Grandsons

We've heard that Young is a great-, great-, great-grandson of LDS church leader Brigham Young. So we'll ask him three questions about grandsons who didn't quite live up to their famous forefathers.

Not My Job: Quarterback Steve Young Gets Quizzed On Not So Great Grandsons

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A Harrowing Tale Of Cold War Escape And Suppression In 'The Tunnels'

Author Interviews

A Harrowing Tale Of Cold War Escape And Suppression In 'The Tunnels'

A new book explores a time in the early 1960s when two groups of diggers built tunnels under the Berlin Wall that were filmed and financed by U.S. television networks.

A Harrowing Tale Of Cold War Escape And Suppression In 'The Tunnels'

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Friday

From Maggie Smith To Angela Merkel, Comic Tracey Ullman Leaves An Impression

Tracey Ullman says she'll never stop doing impressions: "I'll just, you know, impersonate everyone around me then in the nursing home." Richard Ansett/HBO hide caption

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Television

From Maggie Smith To Angela Merkel, Comic Tracey Ullman Leaves An Impression

The British comedian says she started doing impressions when she was 6 years old. Her new sketch comedy show airs on HBO.

From Maggie Smith To Angela Merkel, Comic Tracey Ullman Leaves An Impression

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Cliffhanger Ending

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Ask Me Another

Cliffhanger Ending

Enjoy an all-new game with a phone contestant whose knowledge of popular TV characters is put to the test. Then, we hear terrible 80s TV plots, and are reminded Who's The (TV) Boss.

Cliffhanger Ending

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Commercial Break

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Ask Me Another

Commercial Break

Jonathan Coulton alters classic TV theme songs to be about more recent series. Then New Yorker critic Emily Nussbaum tells Ophira Eisenberg what it's like to get paid to watch TV.

Commercial Break

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Opening Credits

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Ask Me Another

Opening Credits

Sit back and relax as we revisit "Spin-offs," a mash-up game featuring brilliant spin-off pitches for popular TV shows, and "You Call That An Ending?", a game examining questionable TV series finales.

Opening Credits

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