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Estelle: Coming To America

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Estelle's new album is titled All of Me.

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Estelle Swaray is a Londoner. But for the past few years, the British singer best known for the song "American Boy" (her 2008 Grammy-winning hit with Kanye West) has called the U.S. home. It was a particular American boy, she says, who convinced her to make the move.

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Fri March 2, 2012

Jennifer Lopez In 'Q'Viva': A Talent Search Goes Bilingual, With A Dash Of Drama

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Q'VIVA! THE CHOSEN: Jennifer Lopez travels through 20 countries to find and showcase the most outstanding Latin singers, dancers and performers in Q'VIVA! THE CHOSEN premiering Saturday, March 3 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

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Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez travel to Latin America in search of talent in Q'Viva! The Chosen, premiering Saturday, March 3 on Fox.

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Their marriage may be over, but singers Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have come together for a new TV show that seeks out talent from throughout Latin America. It's been airing on Spanish language TV in the U.S. and in 21 countries. And as NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports on today's All Things Considered, the show will also premiere on Fox this weekend, with English subtitles.

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Fri March 2, 2012

Heating Up The Kitchen To Vampire Weekend's 'Horchata'

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NPR listener Amanda Sauermann has never had horchata, but Vampire Weekend's song of the same name kept her warm during a rough winter.

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All winter long, we've brought you songs that evoke the season. Yeah, we know it's March, but since winter doesn't officially end for another few weeks, we still have time to bring you a musical memory of a cold night from one of our listeners, Amanda Sauermann from Gracey, Ky. Her winter song is "Horchata" by Vampire Weekend.

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Fri March 2, 2012

'Being Flynn': Taking In A Prodigal Father

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After almost two decades of estrangement, fractious writer Jonathan Flynn (Robert De Niro, right) gets in contact with his adult son Nick (Paul Dano) when he's forced to leave his apartment.

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Robert De Niro's last outing with director Paul Weitz was less than auspicious: The comedy Little Fockers received terrible reviews. Being Flynn, their second collaboration, is a more serious affair about the estranged relationship between a fractious father and his son.

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Fri March 2, 2012

As Film Fades, Photographer Makes A Huge (Huge) Statement

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Dennis Manarchy with one of his 6-foot-tall negatives.

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The custom-made camera used by Dennis Manarchy measures about 35 feet long — a prototype for what he hopes to build.

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With an earlier prototype camera, Manarchy traveled to Louisiana to capture the Cajun population.

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A rendering shows a concept of how large the images could be printed for an exhibition (though they could technically be even larger).

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One of the most recent photographs taken with Manarchy's prototype camera is a portrait of Virgil Poole, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, age 91.

By Claire O'Neill

Originally published on Fri March 2, 2012 12:03 pm

Photographer Dennis Manarchy has taken the idea of large-format and ... enlarged it. To make his portraits, Manarchy goes inside a 35-foot-long camera. He uses a 6-foot-tall negative. And to process the film, he says, "you gotta get really nasty."

The result, he says, is the "most unbelievably beautiful thing you've ever seen in your life."

Granted, he's biased. And I haven't been to his Chicago studio to see the portraits he's already made — but can only imagine the spectacle and resolution of a negative that large.

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Fri March 2, 2012