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Meet the wildly entertaining and unfairly young Daniel Shemtob, whose big win on The Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race launched him into culinary stardom at the ripe age of …
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Meet the excellent Dmitry Sholokhov, Belarus native and fashion icon who dominated Project Runway not once, but twice. After emerging victorious on Season 10, Dmitry returned to the sizzling drama earlier …
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What do big advertisers and German snipers have in common? Everything, according to German artist Simon Menner.

In 2010, Menner enlisted the German army to help him with his latest …
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Can your trash bin become fine art?

Yes, according to Ian Lantz—IVY Member and celebrated Chicago street artist who is on a mission to prove that beauty can be found …
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You know you’ve made it in the music world when anarchists start praising you for having too much power.

According to influential radical Mikhail Bakunin, “Everything will pass, and the …
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If you ask IVY Innovator Finalist Daren Bascome about his most audacious goals, two answers stand out: “to build innovators a better soapbox” and “to take on 800-pound gorillas.”

Daren’s …
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Tolstoy. Van Gogh. Byron. Michelangelo. Virginia Woolf.

History is full of artists whose genius came saddled with feelings of depression, fear, inadequacy, or mental illness.

But do creativity and emotional instability have …
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