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How Uta Barth’s Art Illuminates
In a 40-year retrospective at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the photographer scrutinizes subtle shifts in light and reveals…
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What an ’80s Feeling: ‘Flashdance’ Turns 40
The film helped bring breaking into the mainstream. Over the years, it also became famous for the subs and doubles…
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Review: No Dudamel Yet, but a Celebration at the Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen led the New York Philharmonic the day after Gustavo Dudamel was named as its next music director.
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Jean Anderson, Exacting and Encyclopedic Cookbook Author, Dies at 93
Her 1,300-page “Doubleday Cookbook” was a rival to “The Joy of Cooking,” and her rigorously tested recipes taught generations of…
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SpaceX Test Fires 31 Engines on the Most Powerful Rocket Ever
The ignition of the Super Heavy booster may set up an uncrewed orbital flight test next month of Starship, the…
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We’re Not Being Cruel, President Biden. Just Careful.
Messages don’t come any more mixed. An overwhelming majority of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic believe that President Biden…
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Albert Okura, ‘Chicken Man’ Who Saved a Ghost Town, Dies at 71
He built a California fast-food chain, opened a McDonald’s museum and restored a historic town on Route 66, a road…
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A Gorgeous, Dazzling Novel and a Mouthpiece for Human Darkness
OUR SHARE OF NIGHT, by Mariana Enriquez. Translated by Megan McDowell. In the 1970s, the artist Salvador Dalí was commissioned…
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Jojo Moyes’s Grandmother Knew a Bookworm When She Saw One
What books are on your night stand? “Shrines of Gaiety,” by Kate Atkinson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “We Should All Be…
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Boring Book Events? Not for Grady Hendrix.
The author of “How to Sell a Haunted House” learned the hard way that standing at the front of a…