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A Thanksgiving Binge Menu: 7 Fall Shows You Might Have Slept On
My childhood Thanksgivings involved television in a very specific sense: After the big meal, all the men in the family…
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Cecilia Marshall, Rights Advocate and Widow of Justice, Dies at 94
Cecilia Marshall, who as an NAACP stenographer transcribed the legal briefs for the Brown v. Board of Education decision and…
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How Do You Tell a Vandal From a Visitor? Art Museums Are Struggling.
LONDON — For Hans-Peter Wipplinger, the director of Vienna’s Leopold Museum, the last few weeks have been challenging. As climate…
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Review: At the Philharmonic, a Taste of Holiday Bounty
Thanksgiving came a day early at the New York Philharmonic this year: the calories, the juicy fat, the whipped cream,…
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The Tiny Dancers Who Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Sparkle
“I think it’s one of the best costumes. It’s so furry and smooth and nice. But it’s also really hot.”…
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‘The Rat Trap’ Review: Together for Better, but Mostly for Worse
Sheila Brandreth and Keld Maxwell are in love and about to get married. She is a novelist and he is…
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Homes Became Offices, and Offices Became Homes
About 28,000 new rental apartments were created in the United States by converting large, former commercial buildings into residential ones…
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Lars von Trier Had the Key to the End of ‘The Kingdom’ All Along
In the first two seasons of Lars von Trier’s haunted-hospital drama “The Kingdom,” hailed since the 1990s as Denmark’s “Twin…
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Russia Traffics in Ukrainian Children
BALAKLIYA, Ukraine — The children left this town in August for a free summer camp sponsored by the Russian occupiers,…
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Thankful for Libraries
This Thanksgiving, as we reflect on family, friends, food and the joy and necessity of communal congregation, I want to…