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The Scene: Art Prowl 2023 Preview

Jen and Emma talk all things Art Prowl with a preview for this year’s event.

Join host Andrea Kruszka meets with Jen Luna and Emma Levitz, the co-directors of Art Round Tennessee as they preview next month’s Art Prowl event. They discuss what to expect from this year’s Art Prowl with some new businesses and artists featured, how the First Friday events have been going that Art Round puts on, and more on the demos that will be available.

New episodes every Sunday at 8am on Lite Rock 95.9.

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The bittersweet reality behind chocolate

Chocolate is a more than $100 billion industry, but its story is not all sweet. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that 1.5 million children still work illegally on cocoa plantations. Correspondent Seth Doane visits Ghana, where much of the world’s cocoa beans are grown, and talks with candymakers who are working to cultivate chocolate free from child labor, and help harvesters earn a living wage. Source

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The reclusive Sly Stone returns, on the page

The music legend who invented his own kind of funky hybrid of rock ‘n’ roll and R&B with his ’60s group Sly and the Family Stone has just penned a memoir, “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin).” Source

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Sly Stone’s new memoir

Sly Stone, who invented his own kind of funky hybrid of rock ‘n’ roll and R&B with his ’60s group Sly and the Family Stone, has been living a private life for decades. Now 80, the reclusive music great has just penned a memoir, “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin).” Correspondent Kelefa Sanneh talks with Questlove (who published the book), Sly’s longtime friend George Clinton, and with Sly’s real family, about the musician’s revolutionary band; a life revolving around drugs; and how he is today. Source

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An egg-citing tale of a mystery solved

John Amalfitano, of Dunellen, N.J., has collected a lot of old stuff, but no item stranger than the chicken egg on which a message was written back in 1951. Whoever wrote that message was a mystery. Correspondent Steve Hartman reports on how Amalfitano turned to Facebook to crack the case. Source

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