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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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The return of “The Greatest Show on Earth”

Created by P.T. Barnum in 1871 and named “The Greatest Show on Earth,” Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus shut down in 2017. But now this American institution is being reimagined for a new age, and is relaunching with a two-year tour, featuring aerial acts, a new take on clowns, and no animals (except for a robot dog named Bailey). Correspondent Martha Teichner reports on how the circus is catapulting into the future. Source

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The long and short of skirts

While skirts have hemmed women into traditional notions of femininity, a skirt’s length, style and fabric – dangling from the waist with few restrictions – can also connote freedom, wealth and agency. Correspondent Faith Salie talks with fashion designer Christian Siriano, and with Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, author of “Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century,” to discuss what skirts tell us about our culture – and how women think of themselves. Source

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