Arts
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Why Does Hollywood Keep Using Fat Suits?
Slender Courteney Cox portraying a plump teenage Monica Geller on “Friends” started the gag in ’90s Hollywood. Gwyneth Paltrow’s role in “Shallow ...
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Harvey Awards to Induct New Hall of Fame Members
The Harvey Awards, which honors exemplary comic book work, will be adding members to its Hall of Fame at New York Comic Con in October. The new ...
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7 Audiobooks to Listen to Now
🎧 Uncultured: A Memoir By Daniella Mestyanek Young, with Brandi Larsen. Read by the author. Raised in the Children of God, a Christian movement ...
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How Much Would You Pay to Hear Great Music?
“I’m a cellist, and I have played in orchestras my entire life,” Blake-Anthony Johnson, the president and chief executive of the Chicago ...
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‘A Jazzman’s Blues’ Review: Tyler Perry Revisits a Jim Crow-Era Romance
“A Jazzman’s Blues,” Tyler Perry’s melodrama about ill-fated teenagers who fall in love in rural Georgia, marks the writer-director-studio head’s ...
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With a Sound Forged in War, Iannis Xenakis Embraced Chaos
“Greeks are like that,” the composer Iannis Xenakis said in 1967. “They are a people continually in search of themselves, always ready to launch ...
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Blackpink and the Limits of K-Pop Maximalism
As K-pop was broadening its global ambitions in the late 2000s and early 2010s, it was also expanding its appetite, becoming the hungriest pop ...
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New York Drill Rappers Say They Were Removed From Rolling Loud Festival
At least three rappers with ties to the booming New York drill scene — which has risen in popularity in recent years, even as law enforcement ...
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Venice: Could ‘Banshees’ Be Colin Farrell’s Oscar Breakthrough?
VENICE — When it comes to feuds, this year’s Venice Film Festival has really overdelivered. First, the director Alejandro G. Iñárritu went after ...
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A Movie House Divided
Are you ready to see some movies? We are. But if news reports are right, you, like us are also worried about the state of the nation. According ...