Arts
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Five International Movies to Stream Now
In the age of streaming, the earth is flat — screen-size — with travel to faraway destinations only a monthly…
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Mommy Is Going Away for Awhile
There are so many ways to do motherhood wrong, or so a mother is told. She can be overbearing or…
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Bridget Everett Shows Off Her Softer Side. And a Bra.
Sometimes Bridget Everett, the actress, comedian and self-proclaimed “cabaret wildebeest,” wonders what would have happened if she had never left…
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Clare Barron on ‘Shhhh’ and How Playwriting Is Her ‘Kink of Exhibitionism’
In the early months of the pandemic, the playwright Clare Barron published an essay titled “Not Writing,” which she accompanied…
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Facing Violence With Brushes and Ballots
Late Wednesday evening, Jan. 5, dozens of art world insiders received a fund-raising message from Nancy Pelosi. “I’m in disbelief,”…
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Animation That’s More Than Kids’ Stuff
Since the inception of the best animated feature Oscar category in 2001, the Academy has sporadically celebrated thematically mature works…
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Maren Morris, a Pop-Curious Hitmaker, Is Country, After All
NASHVILLE — It was always supposed to be when, not if, for Maren Morris’s permanent pop crossover. A Nashville songwriter…
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He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One.
There is precisely one famous story about Hans Rosbaud — though, like its subject, it is not quite as famous…
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‘Mockingbird,’ Once a Broadway Smash, to Pause Production Amid Omicron
The producers of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a hit play that had been packing in audiences before the pandemic, announced…
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Ronnie Spector, Who Brought Edge to Girl Group Sound, Dies at 78
Ronnie Spector, the lead singer of the Ronettes, the 1960s vocal trio that gave a passionate, bad-girl edge to pop’s…