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Here's one of the toughest of all form vs. content dilemmas: How do you craft narrative art out of the slog of unhappy family life, making something true to that slog but not...
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John Waters’s 1995 camp-soaked satire Serial Mom (1994) asks the question: How far will a mother go to protect her children? And Beverly Sutphin’s answer is:...
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Here’s a different way to get your run in: City Running Tours offers guided runs through neighborhoods, mixing in some history and street life with your cardiovascular...
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Earl Sweatshirt wasn’t the first rapper to blow minds before being able to cast a ballot—nearly 30 years ago LL Cool J was rocking bells at 17, and even he was far...
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Not a note of irony can be heard on Aaron Freeman’s Marvelous Clouds, the artist formerly known as Gene Ween’s glorious 2012 rediscovery of kitsch king Rod McKuen....
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If you’re looking for Hayes Carll, the singer-songwriter who was Americana before Americana was selling out the Garden and the Barclays, your best bet is to check either...
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Is there anyone writing today who can wring more laughs from a single paragraph than David Sedaris? The bestselling humorist of Me Talk Pretty One Day, Holidays on Ice, and,...
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Ever been to a live broadcast of a radio show? Our guess is no, since the heyday of such events was more than 75 years ago. In that case, the L.A.–based show The...
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Never has there been an era in which you could easily go from wearing flannel and Doc Martens to neon windbreakers. The ’90s were, indeed, a very special time, and the...
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Save for the unrelenting optimism she always manages to exude, Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha is like a long-limbed self-portrait of every young New Yorker. She doesn’t...
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How long until Phoenix can play a show without fans wondering if Paris peers Daft Punk will make a surprise appearance? Since the latter duo joined the former four-piece...
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Ghostface Killah may be the de facto star of Twelve Reasons to Die, the veteran Wu-Tang rapper’s 10th solo album, but its musical visionary is the name above the title:...
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She put her name on the top lyricists map when writing with Tommy Wolf for the 1959 trend-setting revue, “The Nervous Set,” and more recently, the playful...
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Jean-Luc Godard said, "All you need for a movie is a girl and a gun." But really, all you need is a girl, preferably a charismatic one with a secret in her heart. Director and...
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ARIES [March 21–April 19] The Tarahumara Indians are renowned for their ability to run long distances. The best runners can cover 200 miles in two days. The paths they...
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In his new film, the social drama At Any Price, director and co-writer Ramin Bahrani examines how the transformation of food into intellectual property through seed patents...
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In the course of reviewing movies in the early 2000s, just as computer-generated special effects were becoming radically sophisticated and were also, increasingly, becoming...
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Uwe Boll will no longer fight you -- at least, not with his fists. Often lambasted by critics as the worst of the worst, Boll once literally got into the boxing ring with four...
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Java Heat's title refers not to hot coffee but to the Indonesian island, though caffeine is certainly recommended to make it through this tepid buddy-cop action flick. In...
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The director Ingmar Bergman shot his masterpieces Persona and Through a Glass Darkly and several other films in and around his house on Fårö, an island off the...