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Books
Watch Taraji P. Henson Sing in ‘The Color Purple’
The director Blitz Bazawule narrates a scene from the musical, featuring the star performing as the dynamo Shug Avery.
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Real Estate
Renovating a Kitchen? Don’t Forget the Most Crucial Thing: Light.
Blasting everything with one bright light won’t do. Here’s how to create a multilayered lighting plan like the pros do.
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World
The Miracle of Light, One Spark at a Time
As Hanukkah draws to a close, American Jews see the week’s brighter glow as especially necessary during a dark season.
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Real Estate
‘Are You Going to Be the One to Get Rid of Santa?’
A family in a small town in New York holds a world record for having the most lights on a…
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World
These Underwater Fireworks Are From ‘Sea Fireflies’ Looking for Mates
Tiny crustaceans the size of sand grains sneeze up packets of glowing mucus to impress potential partners.
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Sports
It’s Holiday Window Season in NYC. Here’s What to Know.
“Let’s light it up!” the actress Jennifer Lawrence said on Monday night as she helped to reveal the holiday windows…
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World
Poem: Suddenly, Last Summer
Lisa Jarnot’s “Suddenly, Last Summer” develops, through ecstatic repetition, a theology of lostness. The sea-turtle hatchlings, with their instinctual desire…
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Books
Flight of the Drones Lights Up Central Park
It began with a sudden, breathtaking emergence over the trees to the south — a thousand points of blue light…
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World
A Brief and Futile Argument in Defense of the Incandescent Bulb
When Thomas Edison was working on the incandescent lamp in 1879, he purportedly said, “We are striking it big in…
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Books
In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive
It’s hard to overstate how central Milan Kundera was, in the mid-1980s, to literary culture in America and elsewhere. He…