Arts
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Review: A ‘Merchant of Venice’ That Doubles Down on Pain
More than 30 years ago, John Douglas Thompson, then a successful salesman at a Fortune 500 company, saw a play…
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Review: In ‘Black No More,’ Race Is Skin Deep but Racism Isn’t
The 1931 Afrofuturist novel from which the new musical “Black No More” takes its name is hardly subtle, starting with…
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Coachella plans to return with no masks or vaccines required.
When the Coachella outdoor music festival returns for the first time in two years this April, performers will be greeted…
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What Makes a Good Hercule Poirot? (It’s More Than the Little Gray Cells.)
Hercule Poirot is one of those literary heroes, like James Bond or Sherlock Holmes, whose image blazes brightly in the…
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Judy Collins Is Picky About Audiobook Readers and Folk Singers
It’s been nearly six decades since Leonard Cohen challenged Judy Collins to start writing her own songs. Now, at 82,…
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‘The Gilded Age’ Explores a Rarely Seen Chapter of Black History
In this week’s episode of “The Gilded Age,” the HBO period drama set in late 19th-century New York, the young…
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At the Super Bowl, Nostalgia’s the Only Game
“This is the millennium of Aftermath.” When Dr. Dre rapped that line on “Forgot About Dre,” from his 1999 album…
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An Exhilarating Set of Cecil Taylor’s Jazz Arrives, 49 Years Later
Creative jazz at its best is a music of discovery: improvisers caught up together in a moment that’s passing even…
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‘Billions’ Season 6, Episode 4 Recap: Hungry Like the Wolf
Season 6, Episode 4: ‘Burn Rate’ Six hundred dollars for coffee with Kate Sacker; $46,863 for Wendy Rhoades’s wardrobe; $162,500…
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New York Artists in Need Can Apply for $1,000 a Month
The offers promise to appeal to struggling artists. One would provide $1,000 a month for 18 months, no strings attached,…