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Classical Stories From WSMR

'Art can live through ages and centuries': How musicians are honoring composers who died in the Holocaust

Susan Giles Wantuck

Pianist Dimitri Malignan and Soprano Lily Arbisser are sharing music of composers who died in the Holocaust.

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10 people share their ideas for fun without breaking the bank

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'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie' remembers every Nintendo moment ever

Stephen Thompson, Mike Katzif, Jessica Reedy, Hafsa Fathima

Chris Alonso's mother Kena had a disease that slowly took everything from her. Her muscles. Her voice. Her thirty years of working the land beside her son, who is a landscape architect. She asked them to put her in the ground. Chris and his wife Lauren Robie created Hope Eternal Gardens in Punta Gorda. It's a natural burial option where the land can then be kept as a memorial plot for flowers and trees to grow. What people decide about their end of life arrangements can say everything about how they lived. We met with three families who chose a different kind of goodbye. One by land, one by water and another just under the skin.

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Alternative burial options found across Florida -- from skin deep to below the waves

Elizabeth Andarge, Andrea Melendez

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