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One Night In An Edward Hopper Hotel Room? It's Less Lonely Than You Might Think

It isn't hard to imagine yourself inside a Hopper painting (say, having a coffee at a late-night diner) and now, for $150 a night, you can sleep in a re-creation of his 1957 work, Western Motel.

Cimarrón Harold Lopez-Nussa
Paseo Harold López-Nussa
Electrickery - Joey Fehrenbach Remix - Joey Fehrenbach Little People
Electrickery - Rachael Boyd Remix - Rachel Boyd Little People
Speaker Breaker Ray Barbee & The Mattson 2
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Crawling Collapse Under the Empire
Environmental Obsession Collapse Under The Empire
Once Upon a Time (Instrumental) Chinese Man
Independent Music (Instrumental) Chinese Man

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Forget Eileen: Ted Leo On The Unsung Greatness Of Dexys Midnight Runners

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Geno Dexys Midnight Runners
Teams That Meet in Caffs Dexys Midnight Runners

Former NBA Commissioner David Stern attends a game between the Houston Rockets and the Utah Jazz during the Western Conference Semifinals in 2018. Stern died Wednesday at the age of 77. Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty Images hide caption

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David Stern, One Of The Most Influential NBA Commissioners, Dies At 77

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Blanc Sylvain Chauveau
Situation Finale Sylvain Chauveau
Isn't There The Grapes of Wrath
Mexico The Grapes of Wrath

John Thelen's home well near Burns, Ore., produced this pile of black sand before it ran dry. He dug deeper only to reach drinking water contaminated with arsenic. Emily Cureton/Oregon Public Broadcasting hide caption

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Water Crisis Puts Oregon Community At A Crossroads

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Organism Tommy Guerrero
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Terra Unfirma Tommy Guerrero
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First Place Vulfpeck

A Massachusetts woman who had an abortion when she was 15 stands outside the Suffolk County Courthouse in Boston. Right now, girls facing that decision who don't want to tell their parents must get a judge's approval. Jesse Costa/Jesse Costa/WBUR hide caption

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Massachusetts May Drop Requirement That Minors Get Permission For Abortion

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