Books
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Sebastian Maniscalco’s Toughest Audience Is His Kids
“When they laugh, it blows away the feeling of 20,000 people,” says the comedian, who stars in the new Max…
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Sean Combs Accused of Sexual Assault by a Second Woman
The rap mogul denied a rape accusation made in a new lawsuit that was filed days after Mr. Combs settled…
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France Scoffs at an Englishman’s ‘Napoleon’
French critics considered Ridley Scott’s new biopic lazy, pointless, boring, migraine-inducing, too short and historically inaccurate. And that’s just to…
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700 Paintings, 45 Galleries: A Guide to the Met’s New European Wing
Let the light in. Five years after the Metropolitan Museum of Art set off on a major renovation of its…
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What’s It Like to Work With Hayao Miyazaki? Go Behind the Scenes.
The anime master is a creature of habit who talks every day with his longtime producer, and keeps it more…
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How ‘Terms of Endearment’ Brought a Mother and Daughter Closer
A writer remembers bonding with her mother over the film’s unusual mix of sorrow and laughter, a blend that helped…
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Review: The Philharmonic Feasts on ‘The Planets’
Under Dima Slobodeniouk, the orchestra played works by Holst and Ligeti and, for the first time, Julia Perry’s somber “Stabat…
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For Jews in East Germany, a Life of Contradictions
An exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum explores the Jewish experience in the authoritarian, and officially atheist, communist state throughout the…
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Tales of the ‘Nutcracker’ Kids
Tales of the ‘Nutcracker’ Kids Siblings, a Soldier from Ukraine and a New Prince: Children are the heart of this…
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Saving Praise Houses Before Their African Lineage Is Forgotten
The Rev. Kay Colleton will never forget the time she first laid eyes on Moving Star Hall, a tiny white…