Arts
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200 Years Later, Charleston Honors Denmark Vesey’s Attempted Uprising
Denmark Vesey, a formerly enslaved man who bought his freedom after winning the lottery, tried to organize a slave rebellion in Charleston, S.C ...
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5 Smart Comedy Specials From Veteran Standups
Why isn’t there a standup-special equivalent of a beach read? I wouldn’t recommend sunbathing with a smartphone in your hand, but it’s certainly ...
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The War in Ukraine Is the True Culture War
KYIV, Ukraine — At the thousand-year-old Cathedral of Saint Sophia here, standing on an easel in front of a towering Baroque golden altar, is a ...
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Daisy Edgar-Jones Would Like the Ingénue Phase of Her Career to End Now
Daisy Edgar-Jones bravely walked onstage, her face a ghastly white. Under her arm, a human head. “How could you do this to me!” she bellowed at ...
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Remembering James Caan and His Potent Mix of Swagger and Delicacy
I’m not sure who owned the book, but eventually it ended up in my sweaty young hands. Someone at school had told me about the scene in Mario Puzo ...
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At BroadwayCon, Hillary Clinton Celebrates Women in the Theater
“There’s a lot to worry about right now in our country and the world,” Hillary Clinton, the former of secretary of state, told a packed room of ...
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Jerry Harris Sentenced to 12 Years for Sex Crimes Involving Minors
A judge in Chicago sentenced Jerry Harris, the Navarro College cheerleader who became a breakout star of the Netflix documentary series “Cheer ...
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Man Who Shot the Rapper Nipsey Hussle Is Convicted of Murder
More than three years after the fatal shooting of the rapper Nipsey Hussle, whose 2019 killing in front of the local clothing store he owned ...
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A Conductor’s Career, Cut Short, Still Blazes on Recordings
Frost glazed the ground, and mist hung in the air, as a brand-new Douglas DC-6B took off from Orly Airport near Paris early on Nov. 24, 1956. The ...
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‘53% Of’ Review: Zinging Pro-Trump Women, and Everyone Else
In America, to vote in a federal election is to commit a secret act. One votes in private, in a curtained booth, on intimate terms with an ...