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LOS ANGELES For most of last week, movie theater executives clung grimly on. At issue, among other things, was CinemaCon, an annual Las Vegas event intended to bolster the most fragile part of the film business: leaving the house, buying a ticket and sitting in the dark with strangers to watch stories unfold on big scr...
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In her review of "The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison" (Dec. 29), Saidiya Hartman recounts an affair Ellison had with the writer Sanora Babb, who "lived in Hollywood with a Chinese cinematographer." Yet she never mentions the artist by name. This was, of course, the legendary James Wong Howe (known for his work on fi...
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"Like millions of Americans, I grew up with 'Peanuts.' But I never outgrew it." So begins the foreword written by President Obama for the 25th volume of "The Complete Peanuts," the latest in a series of hardcover books reprinting every daily and Sunday strip of the iconic series that appeared from 1950 to 2000. The vol...
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College and university endowments have recovered most of the losses they sustained during the recession, now that the economy has begun to grow. Yet as this year's high school seniors begin to fill out applications and aid forms, a number of prestigious smaller colleges are straining to meet students' financial needs. ...
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SEATTLE Microsoft's quiet pursuit to buy TikTok suddenly appeared dead a month ago, when President Trump said he wanted to ban the popular social media app for national security reasons. So Brad Smith, the tech giant's president, went to work. He called two dozen lawmakers, telling them that TikTok would be safe in Mic...
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Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch comedy. We're all stuck at home at the moment, so here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. On Tuesday night, late night hosts bemoaned the Senate's swift confirmation of Judge Amy Coney...
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ABOVE LEFT The Malecon seawall in Havana in 2015, with El Morro fortress in the background. RIGHT The same area on Sept. 10, flooded by Hurricane Irma. After two major hurricanes tore through the Caribbean in less than two weeks, some of the most idyllic and tourism dependent destinations have been devastated. Ferociou...
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A research team including economists from the University of Washington has put out a paper showing that Seattle's recent minimum wage increases brought benefits to many workers employed at the time, while leaving few employed workers worse off. On their own, these results appear unremarkable. Large stacks of academic p...
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Credit...Tayler Smith for The New York Times St. Ives was all the rage when Letizia Timoni was in middle school. Letizia, now 16, and most of her friends used its exfoliating face scrub that smells like apricots and sloughs off the topmost layers of skin with ground walnut shells. As recently as February, St. Ives face...
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia Canada can deliver the crowds, but the rest of the hockey world is catching up when it comes to delivering on ice results at the World Junior Championship, the top international under 20 men's hockey tournament. On Saturday, Finland earned its third gold medal in the last six years in the ev...
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HELENA, Mont. A wild wolf known as 926F, dear to the hearts of wolf watchers who visit Yellowstone, was killed by a hunter as it wandered just outside the park last weekend. A member of the Lamar Canyon pack in the national park's northeast region, 926F was the daughter of 832F, an alpha female that had become a celebr...
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WASHINGTON For several decades, a consensus has grown that reining in the United States' 3.2 trillion annual medical bill begins with changing the way doctors are paid: Instead of compensating them for every appointment, service and procedure, they should be paid based on the quality of their care. The Obama administra...
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How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? None From left, Parker Young, Geoff Stults and Chris Lowell in "Enlisted." This Weekend I Have ... a Half Hour, and I Want to Feel Happy 'Enlisted' When to watch: Now, on Sony Crackle. This sweet, silly series is pure goofball joy. Geoff Stults plays a soldier who gets r...
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"The Proposal," Jill Magid's captivatingly wily documentary about her attempt to liberate the archives of the renowned Mexican architect Luis Barragan, wears many faces. Detailing at once an art project and a rescue mission, a love triangle and an elaborate, outlandish bargain, the movie has a surface serenity that bel...
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At the start of this year's New York City Marathon, three people stared at me and tried to figure out why I didn't have a heartbeat. I had one, of course. It just wasn't registering on the puck shaped device taped to my body that was part of Performance Metrics, a tracking system created by the marathon's sponsor, TCS,...
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The trumpeter Clora Bryant at her home in Los Angeles in 2000. "Nobody ever told me, 'You can't play the trumpet, you're a girl,'" she once said. Dizzy Gillespie called her his prote g e. But faced with sexist discrimination, she did not establish herself as a bandleader until middle age. Clora Bryant, a trumpeter who ...
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Race spectators can be a mixed blessing. From your parents waiting for you at the finish line of your local 5K to the million plus fans who line the New York City Marathon route, they can give you a boost when your legs and brain feel too tired to go on. "They provide inspiration and support and excitement and enthusia...
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Credit...Daniel Rodrigues for The New York Times When I was growing up, my mother filled me with visions of her hometown, Otwock in Poland, describing it as a kind of Brigadoon without actually using that American word. It seemed like an enchanted spot graced by tall pine trees, lush lilac bushes and bracing air. In an...
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Dawson is a capricious conspiracist. In the middle of his paranoid rant about the moon, he places his hands sincerely over his chest and says: "Once again, it's a theory. I don't want to get sued, or put in jail." Then he narrows his eyes, as if to size up the whole field of space science, and scoffs, "But I mean, the ...
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A crescendo of humiliation, anxiety and abuse, "Beauty and the Dogs" plays like a horror movie where every choice is a Catch 22 and every door a trap. Unfolding over one endless night and nine chapters each confidently filmed in a single, liquid take the story (by the film's Tunisian director, Kaouther Ben Hania) follo...
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When a whistle stopped play with four minutes, 27 seconds remaining in the Rangers' season ending 4 1 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night, the TV broadcast cut to a shot of the longtime goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, sitting on the bench, arms folded, hair perfectly coifed because he had not played. Then the...
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Deep in the blue collar San Diego neighborhood of Kearny Mesa, wedged between auto dealerships and neon lit fast food chains, the chef John Hong is performing nightly timed shows of the Japanese ritual omakase. This isn't a theater. It's the restaurant Hidden Fish, a Lilliputian space of only 13 seats wrapped around an...
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Bishop Carlton T. Brown stood between a modern day bride and a modern day miracle at Bethel Gospel Assembly Church on May 17 in Harlem. "All of us have been created uniquely in the eyes of God," he said to Ellen Chyun, who is known as Elle, and Michael Gillman, both 32, moments before they exchanged vows in front of 13...
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Fashion & Style
IN a world of interactive, Imax enhanced, iPod guided automotive museums, the relatively modest historical collection here may hardly seem worth a visit. But America's Packard Museum on Ludlow Street is something different, and decidedly worthwhile: it is not a re creation, but an authentic artifact of the history of t...
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In other words, momentous events are happening, which will change the course of history, and the precise nature of them will forever be known only by those at the dinner table tonight. (This would have been more likely in the relatively surveillance free United States of that era.) And it is killing Aaron Burr not to b...
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The soprano Anna Netrebko bows after performing acts from three Puccini operas, including "Turandot," on New Year's Eve at the Metropolitan Opera. The Metropolitan Opera used to like to ring in the new year with a starry gala. But Peter Gelb, the company's general manager since 2006, has preferred to use the occasion t...
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Life without sight seems unimaginably bleak to the sighted. No matter that literate guides from Diderot to Oliver Sacks have confirmed that the blind thrive in their separate reality; the gulf between the light world and the dark one persists. Now a sighted, initially skeptical traveler has provided a multilayered, utt...
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"My sister has memories of men coming to our home," said Ms. McClory, who grew up in Belleville, Mich. (She said they were reporters.) "People were enthralled with the flying saucers," she added. Researchers say government officials have sought to publicly debunk the existence of alien evidence ever since the Washingto...
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Giorgio Perottino/Getty Images; Noam Galai/Getty Images; Vincent Tullo for The New York Times; Peter Van Breukelen/Redferns, via Getty Images; Nathan Bajar for The New York Times; Whitten Sabbatini for The New York Times Giorgio Perottino/Getty Images; Noam Galai/Getty Images; Vincent Tullo for The New York Times; Pete...
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WASHINGTON Florida announced on Thursday that, for the first time, mosquitoes in Miami Beach had tested positive for the Zika virus, a disappointing confirmation that the virus is still active in the area. The Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads Zika is famously difficult to fight, and experts often say that testing th...
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"Everything is very, very bad," a television newscaster deadpans in "I've Got Issues," Steve Collins's surreal comedy of despair and deliverance. Superficially timeless and apolitical, yet deeply informed by the psychic wounds of our current moment, the movie observes collective pain with endearing absurdity. Working w...
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LOS ANGELES One of Hollywood's heaviest hitters, the producer and investor Peter Chernin, has started a campaign to raise millions of dollars to help fund a legal attack on new anti abortion laws in Georgia and other states. Mr. Chernin, who stepped down as Rupert Murdoch's longtime top lieutenant in 2009 to start his ...
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Over the time I've been here, New York has become the center of the pandemic and America has become more and more on lockdown. I have learned to live with the restrictions and have even drawn some lessons from it. First, as a writer, I normally work from home. I need the isolation for concentration. I find it quite har...
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A new study suggests that the availability of cheaper, off brand cigarettes is associated with an increase in infant mortality. Researchers writing in JAMA Pediatrics studied the link between cigarette prices and infant mortality in 23 European countries from 2004 through 2014. During this time, there were more than 53...
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With a pandemic raging, a spate of ads promised dubious remedies in the form of lozenges, tonics, unguents, blood builders and an antiseptic shield to be used while kissing. That was in 1918, during the influenza outbreak that eventually claimed an estimated 50 million lives, including 675,000 in the United States. Mor...
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In June, as the National Basketball Association prepared to restart its season amid the twin crises of the pandemic and the nationwide protests against racial injustice, the general manager of one team told the sportswriter Sam Amick, "You know and I know why we are playing for the money." Players knew this, too, but t...
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Here is who won on the first day (and night) of the N.C.A.A.'s men's basketball tournament. Minnesota, coached by Richard Pitino, came alive with 3 pointers, a hallmark of Louisville, once coached by his father, Rick Pitino. Family drama settled, on to the next one. Yale, which trailed by 9 0 and by 16 points at halfti...
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When the 73 room Beaumont Hotel opened its doors in London's Mayfair district in 2014, it made an artistic statement so conspicuous that not even passers by could disregard it. The building's southernmost exterior is crowned by the British artist Antony Gormley's inhabitable sculpture of a crouching man, which doubles ...
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INFRADESTRUCTION! (A.K.A. WHEN INFRASTRUCTURE ATTACKS) at Anthology Film Archives (April 13 21). The natural follow up to last month's Infrastructure on Film series which gawked at the ingenuity of highway systems and railways is this collection of movies about engineering gone awry. The problems might extend to the ch...
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You get a guest star! You get a guest star! This week's "Saturday Night Live" did not start in its typical spot with a frowning Alec Baldwin as President Trump in the Oval Office. Instead, the cold open was a sendup of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," with Alex Moffat and Kate McKinnon playing outrageously flirty versions of Joe...
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Microsoft, fully embracing a model it once saw as a threat, said on Monday that it was buying GitHub, an open software platform used by 28 million programmers, for 7.5 billion. The deal is a bid by Microsoft to gain ground in the internet era of software development, where applications increasingly run on remote data c...
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If the Washington Post political humor columnist Alexandra Petri could give her pre pandemic self a piece of advice, she might suggest skipping the play she went to write about in late February at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. "It was bad, and I was glad I got to say that it was bad," she sa...
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In 2013, Joy Hollingsworth moved with her family from Seattle out to the country with a plan to build a cannabis business. Washington State had recently legalized recreational marijuana, and Barack Obama had just been re elected. For Ms. Hollingsworth, a former basketball player, and her brother, Raft Hollingsworth III...
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In the first week of February, as Mikaela Shiffrin sat in a Colorado bedroom preparing a video tribute to her father, Jeff Shiffrin, who had died after a home accident days earlier, the surrounding mountains filled with snow. Shiffrin had stepped away from the World Cup circuit, where she is the three time reigning cha...
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WASHINGTON The Biden presidential campaign, emboldened by a recent surge in support, is going after a new target: Facebook. After months of privately battling the tech giant over President Trump's free rein on its social network, the campaign will begin urging its millions of supporters to demand that Facebook strength...
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Nigeria's first submission for the Oscar for best international film has been disqualified because the movie was predominantly shot in Nigeria's official language English. Directed by and starring Genevieve Nnaji, the film, "Lionheart," is on Netflix, and was also the streaming service's first original Nigerian film. E...
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More than 45 million children are engaged in youth sports, but an estimated 70 percent will drop out by the time they are 13 years old. Not 5 percent, not 15 percent, but 70 percent. This is a critical issue because of the benefits of sport participation. A 2010 Centers for Disease Control study found that physically a...
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STRATFORD, Ontario Spend a few days at the Stratford Festival here and you get used to strange stagefellows. Oscar Wilde consorts with Coriolanus at the Avon Theater downtown; a mile away at the Festival Theater, Prospero shacks up with Harper Lee. That's one of the pleasures of a repertory company on such a vast scale...
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The European Union and Japan have signaled that they plan to announce a broad agreement on trade on Thursday, a pointed challenge to President Trump, who is scheduled to attend a meeting of world leaders in Germany the next day. The timing of the announcement on the eve of the Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Ger...
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For some developers, moderation seems to be the latest byword, and that is helping Manhattan become ever so slightly more affordable. Bucking the trend of superluxurious condos with vertigo inducing prices, a handful of developers are offering more moderately priced apartments in full service, amenity laden buildings. ...
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An installation in the Sea of Marmara by Adrian Villar Rojas for the 2015 Istanbul Biennial. When the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden turns 30 this spring, it will celebrate with a new, site specific commission by the youngest artist to take on the outdoor terrace since the museum fir...
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Hailu Mergia, an Ethiopian piano luminary, has been working as a Washington cabby, but now he's releasing "Lala Belu," his first collection of new music in two decades. FORT WASHINGTON, MD. When Hailu Mergia releases his album "Lala Belu" on Friday, it will be this Ethiopian piano luminary's first collection of new mus...
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"The only reason I stop skating is when the sun goes down," Terrance Brown said. Jessie Zhang, an 18 year old in Northern California, is dying for roller skates. She's spent hours scouring the internet looking at different skate designs. She has researched toe guards on Depop. And she's even been picking up extra chore...
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DETROIT Dwight Jones, my high school basketball coach, died on Monday from the coronavirus. He had devoted 50 years of his life to helping young men and women, using his quick wit to get his point across. "Nick, you're slower than Christmas," he often told me during practice. He pushed me to be faster and stronger ever...
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Stan Wischnowski, the top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, resigned on Saturday, days after an article with the headline "Buildings Matter, Too," on the effects of civil unrest on the city's buildings, led to a walkout by dozens of staff members. Lisa Hughes, the publisher of The Inquirer, the 191 year old daily ow...
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. Everything was simpler in November and December, back when the Milwaukee Bucks were rolling through the regular season and chasing a championship and no one knew anything about the coronavirus. Giannis Antetokounmpo had somehow improved his game, and the future was rife with possibility. When the...
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Cheryl Berman Schechter, 50, has been going to Montauk, the hamlet on the eastern tip of Long Island, since the early 1990s. Back then it was a fishing village, with a mix of middle and working class residents. She and her husband, Matthew Schechter, bought property there in 2008. When Ms. Berman chooses tenants, she h...
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LONDON As Europe works to prop up Spain's wobbling banks, its leaders still face a problem that plagues the Continent's increasingly vulnerable financial institutions a longstanding addiction to the borrowed money that provides the day to day financing they need to survive. The weakness afflicts banking systems includi...
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Global Business
If a good story is told well enough, you want to hear it again. And again. And then at least once more, because you're sure there's so much left to discover. That's certainly the case with Jez Butterworth's "The Ferryman," which has been nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Play. There are 21 fully defined ch...
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A drum squad of anxious questions starts pounding in your head early during Simon Stone's "Yerma," which opened at the Park Avenue Armory on Tuesday night in one of the most harrowing and compelling productions you are ever likely to see. "Just how far," you think, with equal measures apprehension and fascination, "is ...
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Increasing numbers of children have high blood pressure, largely as a consequence of their obesity. A growing body of evidence suggests that high blood pressure may impair children's cognitive skills, reducing their ability to remember, pay attention and organize facts. In the most comprehensive study to date, publishe...
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ROME In Italy, literary fiction has long been considered a man's game. Publishers, critics and prize committees have dismissed books by women as chick lit and beach reads. They scoffed at Elena Ferrante, the author of "My Brilliant Friend," as the writer of mere page turners. Then Ferrante's Neapolitan novels became an...
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From left, Ethan Iverson, Reid Anderson and Dave King of the Bad Plus performing at the Village Vanguard last week, during Mr. Iverson's final run with the group. The Bad Plus was nearing the end of its first set at the Village Vanguard on Saturday night when one spirited fan spoke up between songs. "We'll miss you, Ia...
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Once a fashion show begins, the front row tends to be as hushed as a pew. But Brooke Wall was maintaining a steady patter of commentary as the latest gowns of Naeem Khan, a designer favored by Jennifer Lopez and Michelle Obama, emerged under the Lincoln Center tents last Tuesday. "I don't think half the world understan...
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How do you create a map showing every road in the United States, with the precise location of every stop sign, all the lane markings, every exit ramp and every traffic light and update it in real time as traffic is rerouted around construction and accidents? That's a challenge that automakers and technology companies a...
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Q. How safe is it to give smart gadgets the password to my Wi Fi network? Should I be worried and what can I do? A. As researchers have found vulnerabilities in internet connected light bulbs, it is wise to be wary when connecting smart device to your home network. Wirelessly linked gadgets like security cameras, therm...
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Put your best foot forward for bargain hunting at the New Year's sales in a pair of multi heart TOMS x James Goldcrown slippers ( 59) from a new collaboration between the buy one give one shoe brand and the artist behind New York's much Instagrammed Love Wall murals. At 264 Elizabeth Street. In preparation for its bian...
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Fashion & Style
When a homophobic killer armed with an assault rifle perpetrated one of the worst mass shootings in United States history in an Orlando gay bar this month, the reassuring idea that such places are sanctuaries was upended for many of us. Gay bars are supposed to be refuges from intolerance; judgment free zones that are,...
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Travel
DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW 9 p.m. on the CW. After defeating a group of monsters and magical creatures that had been released from hell last season using odd methods, like singing James Taylor songs the Legends have become a worldwide phenomenon. In this Season 5 premiere, they invite a documentary crew to film them as t...
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Connecticut Sun forward Alyssa Thomas, right, played through shoulder pain in her team's Game 3 win over the top seeded Las Vegas Aces. Curt Miller knew it was time for a family dinner. The Connecticut Sun coach and his team gathered in their meeting room in the W.N.B.A.'s bubble at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., a fe...
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Ideally, an orchestra is supposed to play a great symphony in the vibrant natural acoustics of a concert hall not in the open expanse of a park. But outdoor concerts are also, improbably, wonderful and fun. That's what has made the New York Philharmonic's free Concerts in the Parks so popular for 54 years. Of course, i...
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Just who are they anyway, these people with faces that morph with a change of the light, or a hat, or a camera angle? You could ask them yourself, of course. (Everybody else does.) But you wouldn't get a straight answer. In the melting pot that is the big wide world, "Who am I?" is the ultimate stumper. In "Panorama," ...
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Last Monday, just days after losing her No. 1 ranking after a defeat to Karolina Pliskova in the United States Open semifinals, Serena Williams, clad in a shimmering transparent dress of her own design, presented her latest collection for HSN, the shopping network. The stress of losing a big match while preparing for a...
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The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values . It is separate from the newsroom. That hasn't been said nearly enough over these awful last few months. In this frightening and uncertain time, we've had to absorb many new and...
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ATLANTA The Rams selected defensive tackle Aaron Donald with their second first round pick in 2014, No. 13 over all, which means that 11 other teams, after assembling draft boards and consulting scouts and analyzing a trilogy's worth of film of his demolishing offensive linemen, decided against taking a player whose do...
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The murder in "The Art of the Political Murder," a documentary based on the book of the same title by Francisco Goldman, is the killing of Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera in Guatemala in 1998. Suspiciously, his death came two days after he had presented a report on human rights abuses during the country's decades long civ...
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EDMONTON, Alberta The Dallas Stars have drawn first blood as two of the N.H.L.'s southernmost franchises compete for a championship inside the league's so called bubble in the league's northernmost city. The Stars defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning, 4 1, in a fast paced and physical Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals on Sa...
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Doctors treating Ebola patients while wearing "the full spacesuit" protective gear, including waterproof hoods are struggling with a clinician's dilemma: what to do if they can't use one of the oldest, most basic tools in medicine a stethoscope. It's not safe to cut holes in the hood, and nothing that might be contamin...
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Health
In "Strange Fruit," Billie Holiday's protest song from 1939, the jazz singer evoked the gruesome imagery that haunted her: black bodies hanging from trees after being lynched by angry white mobs. Originally written by Abel Meeropol, Holiday's rendition became an anthem of sorrow and anger, but from its endless pain als...
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In his will, Edward Kleban, the Tony Award winning lyricist of "A Chorus Line," made provisions to underwrite two cash prizes for musical theater writers whose work shows great potential: one to a lyricist and one to a librettist. This year, however, there are three winners of the Kleban Prize, each of whom will receiv...
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Doval'e Glickman, left and Sasson Gabai in a scene from the Israeli TV drama "Shtisel," which arrived on Netflix in December. The stories are the standard stuff of television dramas, sitcoms and soap operas. A young man yearns for an older woman but must contend with the meddling of a domineering father. The father, a ...
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In the Norwegian drama "Disco," the second time feature director Jorunn Myklebust Syversen demonstrates a strong feel for pulsing bass, neon lighting and discomfiting close ups but a somewhat vaguer sense of character and theme. The movie centers on a teenager named Mirjam (Josefine Frida), a highly competitive champio...
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If all goes as planned that is, if online backers collectively contribute 75,000 by 12:55 p.m. on July 7 a tiny egg shaped museum will be hitched to the back of a truck and make its way from Guatemala City to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with stops along the way. The Los Angeles museum embarked on its first Ki...
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What Does It Mean to 'Look Like a Mom'? When Bev Barnum, a 35 year old self described "suburban wife and mother of two," first sent out the Facebook call for a "wall of moms" to help protect protesters in Portland, Ore., against federal troops, she included one stipulation. "I wanted us to look like moms," she told The...
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Style
The ouster of Gabrielle Union as a judge on "America's Got Talent" unleashed a storm of criticism in recent days after reports that before she was let go she had experienced racially insensitive behavior on set. Now , the biggest actors' union is investigating the show, helmed by Simon Cowell, and the leader of the ant...
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Television
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Dozens of Harvard students who were forced to take a year off in the university's worst cheating scandal in memory are returning this month to some painful moments on a campus that has been changed by their actions. Students in the leafy, brick walled quads describe stilted encounters with those return...
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Education
Few characters in ballet are more renowned than the Sugar Plum Fairy. People who've never been to any ballet, let alone "The Nutcracker," have heard of her. Yet who is she? And why does she dance? When she enters to dance a grand pas de deux with her cavalier, what's going on between them? Is he her consort or her squi...
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Dance
As multinational corporations face a reckoning, thousands of American teenagers are playfully posturing as retail stores and popular household brands on TikTok. This universe of faux brand accounts makes up just a sliver of what is known on the platform as Elite TikTok, or Alt TikTok. It is not marked by the attractive...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Style
The American writer Robert Warshow famously said that movie critics were obligated to convey their "immediate experience" of a picture. The documentarian Mark Cousins clearly feels similarly. Cousins, whose best known work is the 15 hour television documentary "The Story of Film: An Odyssey," can be seen as the anti Ke...
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Movies
JAKARTA, Indonesia When David F. Quinlivan visits Indonesia, he carries stacks of documents and a well worn map of a mining concession in East Kalimantan province marked with a dizzying array of timelines and arrows. They are his weapons in a two year battle with Indonesia's judicial system. Since 2010, Mr. Quinlivan, ...
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Global Business
Atlanta officials are seeking answers from Google after a news report said that company contractors had sought out black homeless people in the city to scan their faces to improve Google's facial recognition technology. The New York Daily News reported on Wednesday that a staffing agency hired by Google had sent its co...
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Technology
Alysia Montano preparing to run in the first round of the Women's 800 Meters during the 2016 U.S. Olympic Track Field Team Trials at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., on July 1, 2016. Welcome to the Running newsletter! Every Saturday morning, we email runners with news, advice and some motivation to help you get up and ru...
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Well
The details of the story, as they unfold, do not correspond with any dimension of reality. Character development is nonexistent. The sluggish rhythms, the awkward cuts, the unlovely cinematography cohere into what seems like the enactment of a pointless dream. Here is some sample dialogue: "This station's all I've got,...
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Movies
The first rule of Flight Club is to run very, very quietly; the second rule of Flight Club is well, you get the idea. Jessica (Jules Willcox), the fleeing heroine of John Hyams's "Alone," manages to break that rule more than once; yet this minimalist survival thriller unfolds with such elegant simplicity and single min...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
These two very different solos one featuring appropriated photographs, the other oil paintings have an unexpected synergy, especially regarding visual memory and associations. The New York sculptor Al Freeman fills the gallery's smaller space with the first solo show of her uncanny Comparisons: each a collage of a famo...
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Art & Design
The wittiest thing about "Antebellum" is probably the title, though that also may be, at first, a source of confusion. The opening shot an extended bit of cinematic bravura that takes in the pageantry and cruelty of a Louisiana plantation seems to locate the action in the midst of the Civil War. Confederate officers ci...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
This weekend, rugby union in New Zealand will make its return. And there will be one crucial difference from many of the other leagues that have been resuming play around the world: The stands will be packed with fans. Some 20,000 fans are expected to be on hand in Dunedin when the Highlanders host the Chiefs, the firs...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Sports
Could the United States face two epidemics at the same time next fall, flu and the coronavirus? That frightening idea was raised by Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during an interview on Tuesday with The Washington Post. He suggested that a new surge in coronavirus c...
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Health
An installation view of "Mary Corse: A Survey in Light" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, one of two institutions showing works by the pioneer of Los Angeles's art scene in the 20th century. The art world has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to recognizing artists who contributed to major 20th century move...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
In this week's issue, Tatjana Soli reviews Lisa See's latest novel, "The Island of Sea Women." In 2005, Janet Maslin reviewed See's novel "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" for The Times. The exotica, fetishism and soap opera in Lisa See's novel of 19th century China, "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," make for a fragrant...
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Books