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2021/10/25 09:22 (EDT)

'You want me to do what?' How buddies Bruce and Barack made a podcast

New York (AFP) - It was Barack Obama's brainchild to start a podcast with America's dad Bruce Springsteen, who joked that he figured the former president "had gotten a wrong number" when he pitched the idea. In a new interview coming out this weekend the pair waxed poetic on the origins of their conversational podcast "Renegades: Born in the USA" and companion book of the same name, which is set for release October 26. "I initially thought that he had gotten a wrong number when he called me," Springsteen said with a laugh in a sit-down interview with CBS Sunday Morning, previews of which were ...

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2021/6/4 18:33 (EDT)

Pompidou Centre to open space next to New York

New York (AFP) - Paris's Pompidou Centre will open an exhibition and creative space in Jersey City -- which borders New York -- in 2024, the museum and city announced on Friday. It will be the fifth major partnership and the first in the United States for the centre, which has already lent its name to spaces in Shanghai, Brussels, Malaga and Metz. The space will be housed in the 58,000 square-foot Pathside Building, which was constructed in 1912 and was originally part of a train station. It will be available to local artists and multidisciplinary in nature, housing visual and performing arts,...

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