Thing
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Arts
For Joan Armatrading, Classical Music Is Just Another Genre
The pioneering singer-songwriter is unveiling her first classical composition, Symphony No. 1, this month.
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World
We Need to Know When to Opt Out of Optimizing
We love to optimize our home lives, to tweak our processes at work, to attain peak efficiency in all things and to squeeze all the juice from all of our lemons. I personally admit to choosing T-shirts “first in first out” — that is, pulling them from ...
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World
How S. Epatha Merkerson, Actor, Spends Her Sundays
Known for “Law & Order” and now starring in “Chicago Med,” the actor can be found most Sundays at home in her favorite place: a bedroom she converted into a quilting studio.
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Magazine
A Japanese Pancake That Wastes Nothing and Saves Everything
Okonomiyaki, special in its simplicity, can be a culinary home of your making.
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World
I Refuse the Graceful Slide Into Cultural Irrelevance
There’s a ritual I do these days: In the evening, around 6 p.m., I walk downstairs and survey the line of young people who are single file around my block, waiting to get into the concert venue next door. Sometimes I examine their outfits, like an ...
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World
How to Pray With Our Eyes Open
April is my favorite month in Austin, my hometown. The banks along the highways burst with wildflowers. Bluebonnets preside over dainty, pink buttercups playing with bold black-eyed Susans. Trees glisten with their chirpy new green. Birds ...
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Arts
Expanding the Witherspoon Television Universe
“The Last Thing He Told Me” and “Tiny Beautiful Things,” both executive produced by Reese Witherspoon, tell mother-daughter stories in very different ways.
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Sports
Brett Goldstein Faces Life After ‘Lasso’
LONDON — A few minutes into coffee last spring, Brett Goldstein wanted to show me something on his phone. I leaned over and saw puppeteers sitting on skateboards while they hid behind a table, rolling into one another in apparent bliss as their hands ...