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The Alabama Shakespeare Festival will commission 22 plays in the next five years, with more than half of the commissions set to go to female playwrights and playwrights of color. Rick Dildine, the artistic director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the state's largest professional theater, announced the initiative o...
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Theater
ON THE WAY The view from a terrace off a model apartment at Walker Tower in Chelsea. IN the darkest days of the housing crisis, paralysis was the word of the day. Even in the rarefied world of high end New York real estate, developers and buyers alike had to put their dreams on hold, at least for a while. The day that ...
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Real Estate
BOSTON YouTube said on Monday that it planned to remove misleading election related content that can cause "serious risk of egregious harm," the first time the video platform has comprehensively laid out how it will handle such political videos and viral falsehoods. The Google owned site, which previously had several d...
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Technology
BENSALEM, Pa. Two men, one in a Ford F 150 truck bedecked with Trump decals and the other in a Chevrolet Malibu, were stopped at a traffic light, arguing about politics. The light turned green, the truck pulled into a parking lot and the Chevy followed. The man in the truck jumped out, brandishing a trailer hitch head ...
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Opinion
Mr. Schrager, 68, is the chairman and chief executive of the Ian Schrager Company, a hotel and real estate developer. Before starting the company in 2005, he founded the Morgans Hotel Group with Steve Rubell, with whom he also created the legendary nightclub Studio 54 in 1977. Q. Looks like business is pretty brisk. A....
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Real Estate
In crucial moments of an opera, despite what characters on stage may be singing about, the orchestra can signal what's really going on and suggest subliminal emotions and disguised feelings. So the composer Nico Muhly was smart to seize on Winston Graham's 1961 novel "Marnie," which inspired Alfred Hitchcock's strangel...
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Music
Despite major challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic, the United States Tennis Association is set to announce this week that it will hold the 2020 United States Open with the support of the men's and women's tours. The tournament is expected to run as originally scheduled from Aug. 31 to Sept. 13, but without s...
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Sports
PARIS The Kanye West fashion revival tour was announced the day before it began, and came with an invitation containing rattlesnake eggs and dried sage. It kicked off Sunday morning in the peeling 19th century environs of the Bouffes du Nord theater (formerly home of Peter Brook's International Center for Theater Resea...
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Style
A few years ago, Pierre Thiam packed up his two restaurants in Brooklyn and headed to his home continent where he hoped to elevate West African street food to gourmet status. The result is Nok by Alara in Lagos, Nigeria, a restaurant whose celebratory feel is informed by both its hip ambience and its new takes on regio...
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Travel
I have no idea if Oprah Winfrey could be president. I have no idea if she should be president. I certainly have no idea why she might want the demotion. (Can you really get used to "President Winfrey" after earning pop culture's highest title, the mononym?) But anybody who does run for president could do worse than to ...
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Television
Capping the celebration of its 100th anniversary, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music on Wednesday announced a gift of 46.4 million from the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, among the largest donations ever to an American music school. The gift will help fund construction of a 185 million, 12 story building on a s...
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Music
When the Dodgers won the National League pennant last week, Dave Roberts, the Los Angeles manager, was unusually emotional as he spoke at a lectern about how this would prove to be the Dodgers' year. Roberts is normally seen as an unflappable, self possessed figure standing in the dugout, calmly writing snippets of tac...
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Sports
Ford is recalling about 92,000 sedans and crossovers in North America because of a problem with the front, right half shaft, which means the vehicles can cause drivers to "experience the loss of drive function" suddenly, the automaker said on Monday. The models covered by the recall are the 2013 14 Ford Taurus, police ...
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Automobiles
What Negative Oil Prices Mean and How the Impact Could Last None A main benchmark for the price of oil fell negative for the first time ever this week. The decline more than 300 percent in daily trading raised fresh questions about the damage the coronavirus is having on the global economy. What does it mean for oil pr...
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Economy
By the time of the Civil War, evangelical churches were so dominant, Kidd writes, that they represented a de facto establishment. But the issue of slavery tore the Northern and Southern churches apart, and divided black from white churches. Kidd tells us evangelicals would never again reach the same level of cohesion t...
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Books
AWAY FROM CHAOS The Middle East and the Challenge to the West By Gilles Kepel In 2016, the French political scientist Gilles Kepel was condemned to die for being "an experienced Arabist." Immediately after the French born terrorist Larossi Abballa murdered a police officer and his wife, he took to Facebook Live to call...
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Books
Using screens before bedtime impairs children's sleep and may diminish their quality of life. British researchers studied 6,616 children, average age 12, who reported their use of screens mobile phone, tablet, e reader, computer, portable media player, television or game console during the hour before bedtime. They als...
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Well
The recent history of the Academy Awards is littered with puzzling and short lived plans. Remember the pandering popular film Oscar, or the show's decision to present several categories during the commercial breaks? Both ideas were so roundly derided that they never made it past the point of a news release. Such tweaks...
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Movies
MIAMI BEACH Two blocks from the beach, overlooking a small patch of green, the home of Miami City Ballet rises like the prow of an ocean liner, all gleaming white curves. This is where the 51 dancers of this troupe, founded in 1985, spend their days, rehearsing in spacious studios bathed in Florida sunshine. "Ballet co...
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Dance
LONDON In the first episode of season two of "Fleabag," which debuts on Amazon Prime in the United States on May 17, the heroine, played by Phoebe Waller Bridge, wears a black jumpsuit to a magnificently awful dinner with her family. The jumpsuit cost 38 pounds, or about 50, was made by the London based label Love, and...
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Television
At the heart of "The Image You Missed," an intriguing documentary from Donal Foreman that takes a sidelong look at the Troubles, is a quote that, elsewhere (though not when it's heard in the movie), is attributed to the Derry activist Paddy Doherty: "An Irishman never speaks to the person in front of him, but to an ima...
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Movies
The government revised its estimate of economic growth in the third quarter down slightly on Tuesday, as consumer spending helped sustain a modest growth rate despite a dip in net exports caused in part by the stronger dollar. "The Achilles heels of the second half of 2015 are inventories and trade, which remain a drag...
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Economy
What if Michael Corleone hadn't been up for the job? That's the question that hangs over "The Godfather" after Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), the don of the Corleone crime family, dies of a heart attack and Michael (Al Pacino) takes the helm. At that point in the film, there's ample evidence that Michael is a shrewd an...
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Television
As a salmonella outbreak that sickened dozens forced a recall of some cereal products this week, federal officials announced that a separate outbreak linked to cut fruit has expanded to almost two dozen states. The outbreak linked to Kellogg's Honey Smacks cereal had sickened 73 people in 31 states as of Thursday, acco...
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Health
ZHONGSHE, China A moribund coal mine here descends deeply, more than 3,800 feet underground. But the deal in which a Chinese state owned conglomerate bought it may be even darker and more labyrinthine. The Zhongshe mine and two others, in Shanxi Province in northern China, are at the center of unusually public accusati...
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Global Business
Sarah al Amiri is the head of science operations and the deputy project manager for the Emirates Mars Mission, the U.A.E.'s first space mission. The Hope orbiter will make contributions to research on the red planet. But the Emirati government really hopes it will inspire future scientists. As a girl growing up in Abu ...
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Science
MORE than 50 vehicles made their world or North American premieres at the 2012 Los Angeles auto show, organizers proclaimed, during two days of press previews before the doors were opened to the public on Friday. But to torture a baking analogy, by the time one separated the wheat from the chaff among the new models he...
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Automobiles
In "White Dragon," new to Amazon Prime Video on Friday, the hero is a London university lecturer named Jonah Mulray. Since the show is a dark, complicated, tortured family mystery set in Hong Kong, his name can't help but call to mind the neo noir touchstone "Chinatown" and its doomed Mulwrays. The connection lurks in ...
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Television
In a step by step account in his new book, the investigative journalist Ronan Farrow accuses high level executives and producers at NBC News of interfering with his monthslong effort to report on the film mogul Harvey Weinstein, an investigation that would become part of the prizewinning series he published in The New ...
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Media
Responding to changes in health care, big hospital groups are expected to get even bigger. And some hospitals will join forces with once unlikely partners, health insurers and for profit companies, a new report says. The difficult business environment and the changes expected in how hospitals will be paid for deliverin...
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Health
SAN FRANCISCO Slack is the classic Silicon Valley accidental success. Born three years ago, with roots in a failed video game, the messaging software is now used by five million people. The company behind it, Slack Technologies, found success by combining something that Silicon Valley fetishizes rich data on how people...
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Technology
When you're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to stage a fashion show, the fine points matter not just the clothes, but the when, the where and the how, too. So it was hardly a coincidence that Proenza Schouler's fall show happened to be at the Whitney Museum of American Art on Gansevoort Street. Jack McColloug...
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Fashion & Style
Mr. Barrere was not an original member; he had auditioned as a bassist when the band was being formed but was passed over for Roy Estrada who, like the band's lead singer, lead guitarist and chief songwriter, Lowell George, had worked with Frank Zappa. (The other original members were the keyboardist Bill Payne and the...
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Music
"Five p.m. at the Sloppy Tuna and the Christians are party ready." There's a casual absurdity in the opening sentence of the essay "Jesus Raves" in Jordan Kisner's debut collection, "Thin Places." The ambience at the Sloppy Tuna, a beachfront mecca for day drinking young capitalists in Montauk, N.Y., on the eastern tip...
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Books
The nationwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice have set off conversations in nearly every industry about the treatment of Black workers, and book publishing is no exception. The industry has long been criticized for hiring and retaining so few employees of color according to a survey of the work ...
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Books
Anyone who thinks that mixed emotions are wishy washy never met the work of August Strindberg. This unnervingly prescient Swedish dramatist, who lived from 1849 to 1912, portrayed relationships propelled by an ambivalence that scorched and withered. His plays' explosively fraught alliances anticipated the dangerous dom...
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Theater
WASHINGTON For 50 years, the official paintings of the nation's former leaders at the National Portrait Gallery have been composed of white presidents painted by white artists. But when the curtains fell from two official portraits Monday morning, they revealed the first black president and first lady, Barack and Miche...
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Art & Design
This article was first published in 2002. He calls grown up women child, and his coterie of young friends muffin. Bill Cunningham has been a habitual presence on the streets of New York for nearly 50 years, and Paris and London know him, too. But as a subject, he has been elusive, a shadow on the run with his camera, w...
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Fashion & Style
After Donald Trump's ridiculous and dangerous suggestion last week that household disinfectants injected into people's bodies might be a treatment for Covid 19, Republicans intensified their hand wringing over whether his daily briefings were doing more harm to his political fortunes and theirs than good. The coronavir...
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Opinion
Naomie Harris often says her breakout role was in the 2003 post apocalyptic thriller "28 Days Later" with Cillian Murphy, but that is not exactly true. Because even as the film was scoring at the box office and drawing critical plaudits, Harris found herself unemployed and sending out dozens of resumes and letters to c...
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Movies
FRUGAL Hermanns an all day restaurant, event location, test kitchen and film studio in one is one of the stops on a budget friendly itinerary in Berlin. In November 1989, Potsdamer Platz was known as the "death strip" a wasteland between the two parts of the Berlin Wall. But after the wall fell, Potsdamer became a majo...
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Travel
A media mystery popped up a week before Christmas: Leslie Moonves, who had just been fired as the chief executive of CBS after multiple accusations of sexual misconduct, appeared to give an exclusive, on the record interview to a little known publication in which he bluntly addressed his dismissal. Agenda, a news servi...
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Media
The Justice Department said Tuesday that there had been no federal crime in the placement of a noose that was found this week in the Talladega Superspeedway garage stall assigned to Darrell Wallace Jr., the lone black driver in NASCAR's premier series. It was there last year, long before Wallace was assigned to the spo...
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Sports
The letter sent Monday criticized the museum for a "failure to create a diverse and equitable workplace." Responding to criticism by staff that its executives had created "a culture of institutional racism," the Guggenheim Museum's board of directors has hired a lawyer to conduct an independent investigation into the c...
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Art & Design
If Joe Biden isn't careful, Donald Trump might have a new nickname for him: "Shutdown Joe." Or maybe, "Shut Down Joe." Those monikers came to mind after the former vice president's biggest blunder in the campaign thus far. I'm referring to Biden's comment, in his interview last week with ABC's David Muir, that if scien...
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Opinion
LONDON Lady Elizabeth Anson, Queen Elizabeth II's cousin and her party planner for more than 50 years, was raised in a Downton Abbey like home where servants ironed the newspapers, and was married at Westminster Abbey. But on a recent Friday, Lady Elizabeth the orchestrator of some of Britain's most aristocratic partie...
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Style
"Gay Chorus Deep South," an understated documentary about the tour (the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir joined in) directed by David Charles Rodrigues, soon uncovers a more personal story behind the political statement. Seelig says he was once a minister of music at a Baptist Church in Houston, and when he came out, th...
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Movies
The opening on Thursday evening of Phelim McDermott's staging of Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte" at the Metropolitan Opera was in many senses more successful than I had feared. The fairground, 1950s Coney Island setting baffled me even as it lent some gorgeous imagery, not least Amanda Majeski's Fiordiligi circling on a Ferr...
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Music
Two top N.B.A. teams battling into double overtime. Memorable individual performances. And points, points, points. Thursday night's game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder set a handful of records, but it was the Spurs who won, 154 147. LaMarcus Aldridge had his best night. Although he has aver...
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Sports
Hello and happy (late) Fourth of July. Hopefully, most of you got some time off the stop and watch the fireworks. I, of course, did not, as on the Fourth of July I was watching: (1) Maison Margiela; (2) Elie Saab; (3) Jean Paul Gaultier; (4) Viktor Rolf; (5) Fendi; and (6) Valentino. Admittedly some of those shows prod...
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Style
When it comes to decor, money isn't everything. To create a stylish room, all you really need is imagination and the patience to find the right piece. When you're designing a home, it's easy to get carried away dreaming about pricey sofas, rugs and art. But big ticket items aren't as important as they seem, and plunkin...
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Real Estate
For many, a pleasant evening in the company of such tunes is probably entertainment enough. Mr. Bergasse has quite an array of talent and professionalism at his disposal not just the cast of five men and four women, but also the excellent musicians, whose bandstand emerges every now and then from the alcove in the set ...
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Theater
"Autumnal." Patti Smith pronounces the word carefully, with the accent on the first syllable. And as she speaks it, an adjective acquires the weight of a noun, while a season is somehow transformed into a pervasive state of mind. Such a state, both misty and ruefully clear, shimmers like a bright fog in the small, vene...
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Theater
Ivan Kral with Patti Smith in concert in Amsterdam in 1979. He helped smooth Ms. Smith's transition from poetry into music and played guitar and bass on her early albums. Ivan Kral, a Czech born musician whose integral role in the Patti Smith Group, along with his work as a filmmaker who chronicled the earliest days of...
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Music
They Liked It So Much They Bought the Brand DO you believe in love at first sight? Consider this: One look was about all it took when executives of Tata Motors, who in late 2007 were deciding whether to buy Jaguar from Ford Motor, saw sketches of what would become the 2011 XJ. "What we had coming to market," Gary Templ...
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Automobiles
Mounira Al Solh at the Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute's show, "I strongly believe in our right to be frivolous," is the first exhibition of her work in the United States. CHICAGO When the civil war in Syria escalated in 2012, the violence forced many residents to flee to neighboring Lebanon. Mounira Al Sol...
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Art & Design
An official who led the American Folk Art Museum's exhibition program for 25 years will step down from her post at the end of June, the museum said in a written statement on Tuesday. The statement said that Stacy C. Hollander, the deputy director for curatorial affairs, chief curator and director of exhibitions, "is le...
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Art & Design
The Rockets Tried Small Ball. Did It Work? Well, They Beat the Lakers. LOS ANGELES Among his many pregame duties whenever the Houston Rockets are on the road, Tony Nila scrawls each player's nickname on a strip of masking tape and affixes it to the top of that player's locker. Nila, the team's equipment manager, refers...
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Sports
WHEN a troupe of Porsche engineers arrived here on a Monday afternoon early this month, the flamboyant graphic designs covering their cars prototypes of the 918 Spyder, a supercar that is more than a year from its market debut barely distracted tourists from their preoccupations. Instead of stopping the show, the two o...
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Automobiles
PIERCE, NEB. It was early in the bidding, and the auctioneer was still warming her pitch and trying to fire up the crowd of thousands around her mobile stage, a flatbed trailer in a soybean field in the middle of the country. A 1964 Impala, a two door hardtop with just four miles on the odometer, had stalled at 75,000....
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Automobiles
Politics. The good news is that globalization really has, on average, made the world a better place for most people. Not for everyone, but on average, it has helped people who didn't have opportunities. It helped take hundreds of millions, if not billions, out of poverty. That's long term. Short term, there is an incre...
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Your Money
Until recently, I would have said the three most painful hours I spent in a Broadway theater in 2017 were the ones watching Glenn Close gamely rasp her way through the lugubrious revival of "Sunset Boulevard," Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic Billy Wilder movie. (Close had starred in the original Br...
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Books
The Weeknd's new album, "After Hours," lost 69 percent of its sales in its second week out, but in another slow week for new music it still had enough to stay atop the Billboard 200 chart. "After Hours" had the equivalent of 138,000 sales in the United States last week, according to Nielsen down from its opening of 444...
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Music
We took our children on vacation, oh yes, of course we did. We took them to the beach. We never got it together to own a second home; no country weekend cottage, no beach house. We never even got it together to achieve a recurring rental, or to return to a particularly beloved motel or holiday cabin I'm not sure we eve...
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Well
Major League Baseball is like a beleaguered landlord with 30 frightened tenants. Flooding in one apartment damages several others. The pipes get fixed, and then mold spreads in the room down the hall. Nobody wants to condemn the building, but everyone knows it might collapse. So it was on Monday, when the Miami Marlins...
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Sports
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Even without fans in the stands, cheerleaders on the sidelines or the national anthem performed live, some N.F.L. traditions have proven pandemic proof. Like this one: Two games into the season, and the Jets are already making their fans wish football hadn't returned. The Jets revisited their annu...
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Sports
Lear deBessonet on her new role at Encores!: "When I listen to and experience musicals, I am filled with a giddy joy." Lear deBessonet, a theater director who grew up in Baton Rouge, La., didn't see a professional production of a musical until she was 17, when her school choir, on a trip to New York, got seats to "Rent...
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Theater
There's a picture of me from the early '90s: I'm 13, leaning against the railing of the Golden Gate Bridge, peering down into the water below. I look somber, possibly because my father had shared on approach to the landmark that it was, at least then, the most popular bridge in the world to jump off. Or maybe it was so...
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Travel
Reruns are comforting. Gilligan always screws up the rescue, Lucy gets smashed on Vitameatavegamin every single time, and no characters on "Seinfeld" remain masters of their domain. At some point it's not about laughing at all the jokes, it's the satisfaction of knowing all the jokes. Audi's A3 sedan, new for 2015, is ...
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Automobiles
In one sense, this has been a difficult period for Fox News: a star anchor fired after being accused of sexual harassment, a lawsuit depicting a misogynist workplace, a top writer exposed as a racist internet troll, advertiser boycotts and outrage after Tucker Carlson called protesters "criminal mobs" and questioned th...
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Media
SEATTLE Amazon's bid to become a bigger player in the grocery business took a major step forward Wednesday, as federal antitrust regulators approved the internet company's acquisition of Whole Foods Market. And earlier in the day, Whole Foods shareholders voted to approve the 13.4 billion deal, which will give Amazon a...
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Technology
New test results suggest that automakers are quickly improving the safety systems that aim to keep a distracted driver from rear ending a vehicle or colliding with an object ahead. The results for 24 models were released on Thursday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The institute, which is financed by the ...
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Automobiles
Joyce Johnson was 21 and not long out of Barnard College when, in the winter of 1957, Allen Ginsberg set her up on a blind date with Jack Kerouac. She took the subway downtown to meet him at a Howard Johnson's on Eighth Street in Manhattan. "I push open the heavy glass door, and there is, sure enough, a black haired ma...
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Books
Meconis's drawings, full of heart and humor, beautifully evoke Margaret's many moods, and the rhythms and routines of life in an island convent. Types of holy orders, the breviary, the differences between saints and martyrs these topics are an unusual addition to the canon of graphic novels for young readers, but Marga...
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Books
Years of efforts to prevent sexual harassment in science, engineering and medicine have failed, and universities need to make sweeping changes in the way they deal with the issue, a searing new report by a national advisory panel concluded on Tuesday. "There is no evidence to suggest that current policies, procedures, ...
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Science
On an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday evening, I found myself facing a stranger, swinging my arms back and forth, and hooting like an owl. I was warming up for an ecstatic dance session at Union Square Ballroom in Manhattan, which I attended with about 250 other people. Ecstatic dances are essentially free form dance pa...
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Style
Last spring, New York received a gift from Cuba: a premiere by Ronald K. Brown courtesy of Malpaso Dance Company. For its return visit to the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, the troupe, formed in 2012 by Osnel Delgado, Daile Carrazana and Fernando Saez, hosts another impressive guest choreographer, Trey McIntyre. This prolif...
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Dance
Thomas Scott appears to be a loving father, a decent neighbor and an all around jolly good fellow. But the benevolent smile lurking under the pre World War I mustache is deceiving: The man is a sanctimonious prig who siphons all the fun out of life. When time comes to choose between his faith and his family's happiness...
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Theater
Seth Rogen's 2011 shot at superhero stardom (based on the 1930s radio serial and its subsequent, "Batman" style TV series adaptation) mostly fizzled with critics and audiences, and it is now considered one of the lesser entries in the spandex centric subgenre. But this one has a good deal more style than the blockbuste...
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Movies
Believe it or not and I know many people will refuse to believe it right now New York City may be among the best places in America to avoid catching the coronavirus. In New York State as a whole, the number of people dying daily from Covid 19 is only slightly higher than the number killed in traffic accidents. In New Y...
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Opinion
You've found a home that suits you in terms of price, location and design, and you've decorated it in a style that reflects your personal aesthetic. All should be good, right? Well, not if your furniture is a pain in the neck, back, hips or shoulders. When Jennifer and Roland Palmer bought a second home in Hilton Head,...
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Real Estate
As protests around the country against racism and police violence extend well into their second week, demand for books about race and anti racism has surged. As of this writing, almost all of the top best selling books on Amazon (seven out of 10) and at Barnes Noble (nine out of 10) take on these topics, including "How...
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Books
A few months ago, the actor Corbin Bleu was sifting through some old boxes, assembling materials to make a wedding gift for his fiancee (now his wife). Among the childhood photos, he found a school paper he had written in eighth grade about Fred Astaire. "Every generation to come will watch with open mouths at this ama...
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Dance
Three years ago, Bayard Winthrop, the chief executive and founder of the clothing brand American Giant, started thinking about a flannel shirt he wore as a kid in the 1970s. It was blue plaid and bought for him by his grandmother, probably at Caldor, a discount department store popular in the northeast back then. The f...
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Style
The century old artists' retreat known as the MacDowell Colony is removing the word "colony" from its official name in response to a petition from staff members that pushed for the change, the organization said on Tuesday. Founded in 1907, MacDowell offers a haven in Peterborough, N.H., for artists to work without dist...
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Art & Design
It might be the beginning of the end of one of the country's most prestigious magazine publishers. Time Inc., which publishes titles like Time, People and Sports Illustrated, agreed on Sunday to sell itself to Meredith, a Midwestern publisher that had long courted the company. The deal is valued at nearly 3 billion rou...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media
Juice WRLD, the 20 year old singing rapper of the moment, is spending a second straight week atop the Billboard 200 chart with his new album, "Death Race for Love," thanks to a slow period for major music releases. No new albums reached the Top 150 this week, leaving the streaming success of "Death Race" (Grade A/Inter...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
After years of buildup, a debate about the nature of humor that verged on the metaphysical and the specter of a trial featuring testimony from Patton Oswalt and Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien settled a lawsuit against him Thursday, ending a standoff with a freelance comedy writer who had accused the late night host of ste...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Television
As "Captain Marvel" swooped into its second weekend in theaters on Friday, the question wasn't really whether it would top domestic ticket sales, but by how much. Disney Marvel can breathe easy. Their latest superhero origin story, the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe dedicated to a female superhero, sold an...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
BERKELEY, Calif. In an engineering laboratory here, a robot has learned to screw the cap on a bottle, even figuring out the need to apply a subtle backward twist to find the thread before turning it the right way. This and other activities including putting a clothes hanger on a rod, inserting a block into a tight spac...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
Sunil Yapa was bouncing from college to college, searching for a career, when he decided to return to a familiar place: his hometown, State College, Pa. There, he found himself in the building where he had often visited his father, Lakshman, a geography professor at Penn State. He took his dad's classes, helped him wri...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Your Money
The meeting, nearly 14 months ahead of Election Day, illustrates how tech companies are preparing for the 2020 race after Russian operatives used Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other platforms to spread disinformation and sow discord in 2016. Since then, many of the tech companies have been under scrutiny. Some have sa...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
Could you name the postmaster general before this year? I couldn't. It's a position that, like Emily W. Murphy's role at the General Services Administration, enjoyed relative obscurity until our democracy suddenly seemed to depend on it. Which is why Louis DeJoy, a Trump campaign megadonor who took up the postmaster ge...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
The little book is a relic from the years after the Civil War, when autograph crazy Americans collected signatures, a central building block of identity before fingerprinting, Social Security numbers or credit cards. A jeweler named Lafayette Cornwell collected more signatures than most people did 400 or so, starting w...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
As soon as a 60 game baseball season was made official, the consternation began over how to handle teams playing 102 fewer games than they would in a normal year. What would the leaderboard look like? What would happen if records were broken? Would they even be able to get through all 60 games? With the regular season ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Sports
Working it: Mitchell Moore, of PortraitEFX, demonstrates a popular pose with Indy Gleave, 5, during a workshop at the 1 Original School Sports Photography Boot Camp, at the MCM Elegante Hotel in Dallas in March. DALLAS Chris Wunder, who has spent the better part of the last four decades photographing schoolchildren or ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Style
Recent job losses have been nothing short of apocalyptic. Almost 17 million workers more than 10 percent of the work force filed for unemployment benefits over the course of just three weeks. Independent economists suggest that the unemployment rate may already be close to 20 percent, which is similar to its level in t...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
Backlash reigns in schools nationwide after the introduction of Common Core standards. Critics say they are overly difficult, but others say they challenge students to become better thinkers. He could have written about the green toy truck he kept hidden in his room, a reminder of Haiti, a place he did not yet fully un...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Education
JOHN D'ANASTASIO owns three vacant parcels in South Jersey that he is hoping to develop once the housing market turns around. Based on last year's dismal numbers, that might not happen quickly enough, especially as several of his building permits are to expire by the end of the year. Barbara and James Chiusano are in a...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
Sixteen years after he agreed to buy the last large undeveloped site on the Far East Side, the billionaire developer Sheldon H. Solow has finally begun construction on a new residential tower there. Designed by the Pritzker Prize winning architect Richard Meier, the 556 unit building, 685 First Avenue, is going up just...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate