Arts
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Under the Leather Jackets: Anxiety, Bravado and the Keys to TV Stardom
Candid memoirs by Henry Winkler and John Stamos reveal how lucky breaks — and Yale training, and a curling iron — made them into household names.
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María José Llergo’s Songs Have Flamenco Roots. They Raise a Ruckus.
This Spanish singer’s debut, “Ultrabelleza,” experiments with a signature genre of her Andalusian homeland, creating an unexpected homage.
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Black Sabbath Ballet Turns Up the Volume on a Varied London Season
The fall dance calendar began with English National Ballet under new leadership. Then came Royal Ballet’s “Don Quixote” and “Black Sabbath: The Ballet.”
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‘Milli Vanilli’ Review: Blame It on the Fame
Luke Korem’s documentary retraces the manufactured pop duo’s rise and fall, while asking pertinent questions about the price of stardom.
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Late Night Finds the House Speaker Pool Lacking in Diversity
Stephen Colbert named actual candidates for the job before switching to made-up politicians — “and literally no one knows when I did, including me.”
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Trance Music Is Coming Back. Evian Christ Is Part of the Revival.
The producer got his start in the 2010s connecting underground electronic sounds and hip-hop. His first album, “Revanchist,” embraces a long-derided genre of dance music.
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Lying All the Way to the Bank in ‘America Fantastica’
Tim O’Brien’s manic satire follows a disgraced journalist on a criminal road trip through a myth-addled nation.
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92NY Halts Literary Series After Pulling Author Critical of Israel
The organization put the series on pause after several writers said they would withdraw from events to protest the Y’s decision not to hold an event last week with an author who had criticized Israel.
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The Rock’s Wax Figure Will Get Redo, Museum Says
The Grévin Museum in Paris said it is “improving” a likeness of Dwayne Johnson that one online critic called “melanin deficient.”
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Review: Years Late, a Young Pianist Finally Gets to Carnegie
Alexandre Kantorow made his Carnegie Hall recital debut after winning both the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Gilmore Artist Award.