Arts
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‘A Hero’ Review: Debts No Honest Man Can Pay
“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.” “A Hero,” the new film by the Iranian writer-director ...
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‘Expedition Content’ Review: Anthropological Maneuvers in the Dark
“But what to do with your eyes?” — this ridiculous question popped into my head early while watching “Expedition Content,” though watching doesn ...
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In the Lower Ninth Ward, an Artist Renews His Purpose
NEW ORLEANS — The cookout in the new garden, guests agreed, upheld the cultural and convivial traditions of the Lower Ninth Ward. Herlin Riley, a ...
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‘And Just Like That’ Episode 6 Recap: Ponderings Aplenty
“I just charged tomatoes,” Carrie once told her boyfriend Aidan Shaw (John Corbett) in the original “Sex and the City,” “I’m not in a position to ...
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Gowns, Puppets and Sharks: 8 Cultural Sights to See This Winter
The holidays are over — the Christmas presents opened, the menorah extinguished, the karamu feast consumed — but the unmerry part of the winter ...
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Welcoming Back Live Theater Doesn’t Mean Agreeing About All of It
The year that just ended was a difficult one for people who make theater, as they faced economic, aesthetic and medical challenges. In a smaller ...
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For Karla Knight, Paranormal is Normal
RIDGEFIELD, Conn. — Artists attuned to the supernatural, paranormal and occult have sometimes been dismissed as eccentric visionaries, but the ...
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The Devils You Know: Three ‘Spider-Man’ Villains Return in ‘No Way Home’
They were very good at being bad. At the dawn of the “Spider-Man” film franchise in 2002, Willem Dafoe, the acclaimed actor of movies like ...
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They Screamed, We Screamed. Now They’re in ‘Scream’ Again.
Twenty-five years after “Scream,” Neve Campbell is still seeing Ghostface everywhere she goes. This past Halloween, Campbell brought her children ...
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mezzo-Sopranos
In the past we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we would play to make our friends fall in love with classical music, piano, opera, cello, Mozart ...