Arts
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J Dilla Was a Revered Rap Producer. A New Book Deepens His Legacy.
Even during his lifetime, there was something unexplainable about J Dilla, the Detroit-born hip-hop producer and M.C. He was an…
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Sundance Wrap-Up: 6 Movies We Like and One We Disagree on
For the second year in a row, the Sundance Film Festival canceled its in-person plans and went virtual, wrapping up…
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‘Pam & Tommy’ Review: The Internet Is for Porn
Episode 4 of Hulu’s “Pam & Tommy” begins as the website pamsextape.com loads on a mid-90s IBM desktop computer —…
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Dutch Publisher Apologizes Over Disputed Anne Frank Book
AMSTERDAM — The Dutch publisher of “The Betrayal of Anne Frank,” a new book scholars have criticized for putting forward…
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Review: In ‘Intimate Apparel,’ Letting the Seamstress Sing
We begin with joyful ragtime, that musical theater fallback for telling Black stories of the early 20th century. But the…
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Review: In Clare Barron’s ‘Shhhh,’ Staging a Memoir of the Body
To get to your seat, you walk past someone’s toilet, stationed next to their sink, above which their pill bottles…
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In a New Documentary, Janet Jackson Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Throughout her two-decade-plus heyday, Janet Jackson was an astonishingly modern pop superstar — a risk-taker with a distinctive voice, a…
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Private Data Shows Broadway’s Hits and Misses After Reopening
During the long dark months when the coronavirus pandemic kept Broadway shuttered, a hypothesis took hold in parts of the…
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Writers Guild Nominations: ‘Don’t Look Up,’ ‘Licorice Pizza’ and More
The path to the best-picture Oscar almost always winds its way through the screenplay categories, so Thursday’s feature-film nominations from…
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Jussie Smollett Sentencing Is Set for March 10
A judge in Chicago on Thursday set March 10 as the date on which the actor Jussie Smollett will be…