The films I grew up on have been entertaining, escapist, someday edifying. But I didn’t see myself in any of them. “My Brilliant Career” modified…
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Many Trump-era photos look like dramatic old paintings. That’s no ‘accident.’
“I was struck by how these little wooden boxes full of pieces of paper that nobody ever cares about all of a sudden, in this…
View More Many Trump-era photos look like dramatic old paintings. That’s no ‘accident.’Pixar’s ‘Soul’ Has a Black Hero. In Denmark, a White Actor Dubs the Voice.
COPENHAGEN — Like most of their counterparts round the world, Danish movie critics initially greeted “Soul,” Pixar’s first animated feature to focus on Black characters…
View More Pixar’s ‘Soul’ Has a Black Hero. In Denmark, a White Actor Dubs the Voice.The top Trump impersonators are asking themselves: What now?
The two-minute video posted Wednesday, shortly after the House impeached the president for the second time, confirmed off Cauvin’s spot-on impression that has garnered the…
View More The top Trump impersonators are asking themselves: What now?A Farewell to the Trump Aesthetic
Few presidents have exploited the theatrical grandeur of the job fairly as enthusiastically or as cynically as Donald Trump, from his proliferating forests of flags…
View More A Farewell to the Trump AestheticGo Ahead. Fantasize.
Imani Baucom, 29, a instructor in Washington, D.C., has been fantasizing about taking a visit to the Dominican Republic to see a category of fifth…
View More Go Ahead. Fantasize.Why Isn’t Kelp Catching On?
In the previous 12 months and a half, Ms. Warner mentioned, Atlantic Sea Farms has been in a position to scale up manufacturing of kelp…
View More Why Isn’t Kelp Catching On?What to watch this weekend: ‘Miss Scarlet & The Duke’ on PBS
Fox News Sunday (Fox at 9 a.m.) Brian Deese, incoming director of the National Economic Council. White House Chronicle (WETA at 9 a.m.) Llewellyn King and Allen Kay, famed…
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Meanwhile, she begins to understand how a lot her single mom has sacrificed to make her desires a chance. But Ana isn’t certain what her…
View More Figuring It Out: Two Novels About Ice Skating and AdolescenceAdolfo ‘Shabba-Doo’ Quiñones, street-dance star of ‘Breakin’’ movies, dies at 65
“Those jocks just couldn’t compare,” he later instructed the Chicago Tribune. “I was the power. They would just stand around and look goofy at the…
View More Adolfo ‘Shabba-Doo’ Quiñones, street-dance star of ‘Breakin’’ movies, dies at 65Mary Catherine Bateson, anthropologist and author of ‘Composing a Life,’ dies at 81
She had a fall within the previous week, stated her daughter, Sevanne Margaret Kassarjian. Dr. Bateson was a multilingual scholar whose first e-book was titled…
View More Mary Catherine Bateson, anthropologist and author of ‘Composing a Life,’ dies at 81Joanne Rogers, Mister Rogers’s Mrs., Is Dead at 92
Joanne Rogers, who because the gregarious spouse of Fred Rogers, the influential creator and host of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” unfold his message of kindness after…
View More Joanne Rogers, Mister Rogers’s Mrs., Is Dead at 92Globalfest Moves Online, Showcasing World Music Without Boundaries
Minyo Crusaders set an previous Japanese tune, from a practice known as minyo, to a Nigerian Afrobeat groove. DakhaBrakha, from Ukraine, roved from Eastern European…
View More Globalfest Moves Online, Showcasing World Music Without BoundariesLove Letter: Can a Strained Marriage Survive Confinement?
For some married {couples}, the stress of quarantine and attempting to create normalcy in confined areas have led to effervescent tensions and arguments. When France…
View More Love Letter: Can a Strained Marriage Survive Confinement?Bride and Groom, Side by Side in a Preschool Photo
Alexandra Levy Olsman and Zachary Isaac Frankel lived throughout Rittenhouse Square from one another at a younger age and went to the identical Montessori preschool…
View More Bride and Groom, Side by Side in a Preschool PhotoCan I Still Wear Camouflage After the Insurrection?
I have a bunch of camo objects of clothes — pants, jackets, baggage. I even have coveted camo flats. I am not in a militia.…
View More Can I Still Wear Camouflage After the Insurrection?Kim Tschang-Yeul, 91, Dies; Painted Water Drops Swollen With Meaning
SEOUL — Kim Tschang-Yeul, who devoted a half century to creating luminous work of water drops which are knowledgeable by the trauma of conflict and…
View More Kim Tschang-Yeul, 91, Dies; Painted Water Drops Swollen With MeaningPerspective | Trump imagined himself a modern-day Midas. His touch was anything but golden.
For 4 years and extra, we watched a catastrophe coming to a boil, many people anxiously bingeing on the accumulating outrages, as if we had…
View More Perspective | Trump imagined himself a modern-day Midas. His touch was anything but golden.Getting Rid of Stuff
Welcome. Before weekdays and weekends have been indistinguishable, we left the home. Now, we’re inside, many of us, most of time. With the identical individuals…
View More Getting Rid of StuffCelebrating King the Activist (Not Just the Dreamer) in Art
“Let Freedom Ring” is the title the Brooklyn Academy of Music has given to its public exhibition of photographs by seven Brooklyn-based artists as a…
View More Celebrating King the Activist (Not Just the Dreamer) in Art