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Jeremy Jordan Mines “Floyd Collins” for Its Sonic Gems
“The future of writing is the universe within,” the composer and lyricist Adam Guettel told an interviewer, in 2001. It had been five…
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Rema and the Evolution of the Afrobeats Sound
For many years, the term Afrobeats, referring to a West African pop style that integrates dancehall, rap, and R. & B. with traditional…
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The Quest to Build a Perfect Protein Bar
In the past seventy-five years in America, the nutritional bar has gone from niche to mainstream. In the fifties, Bob Hoffman, of York,…
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Was the Civil War Inevitable?
Out of guilt or amnesia, we tend to treat wars, in retrospect, as natural disasters: terrible but somehow inevitable, beyond anyone’s…
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How Much Should You Know About Your Child Before He’s Born?
When the writer Amanda Hess was twenty-nine weeks pregnant with her first child, her doctor, looking at an ultrasound, “saw something he…
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The Powerful Films of the L.A. Rebellion
In the nineteen-seventies, U.C.L.A.’s Ethno-Communications program, founded to increase minority enrollment, attracted a critical mass of…
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EXCLUSIVE: Cultured Magazine to Launch Cultured at Home in October
HOME RUN: Cultured Magazine, the independent art, design and architecture magazine that broke onto the scene in 2012, is gearing up to…
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London Theatre Shimmers with Mirrors and Memory
Long before Richard II ran afoul of mutinous nobles, and almost two centuries before Shakespeare wrote Richard’s portrait in majestic…
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“Sinners” Is a Virtuosic Fusion of Historical Realism and Horror
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bloodstream, along comes a new horde of vampires, in Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” to…
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The “Lady Preacher” Who Became World-Famous—and Then Vanished
Aimee Semple McPherson was barefoot when she left Room 202 at the Ocean View Hotel. Wearing only a bathing suit, a dressing gown, and a…
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Does a Fetus Have Constitutional Rights?
In the first two years after the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the number of abortions performed annually…
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Kurt Weill Kept Reinventing Himself
“Music is no longer a matter for the few,” Kurt Weill declared in 1928, the year he wrote “The Threepenny Opera.” In Weill’s opinion,…
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The Pop Heartthrob Nick Jonas on Broadway
Our theatrical spring continues to be a bright one, with a bounty of audacious, boundary-breaking work emerging Off Broadway in the coming…
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“The Shrouds” Is a Casket Case—and an Unsettling Vision of Techno-Paranoia
David Cronenberg’s new film, “The Shrouds,” contains the funniest and saddest blind-date sequence I’ve ever seen. Myrna (Jennifer Dale), a…
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Environmentalists Are Rethinking Nuclear. Should They?
Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion. Source link
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It’s a Typical Small-Town Novel. Except for the Nazis
We know this kind of novel. Reliable as the seasons, its opening pages disclose a familiar reality. A hovering, Godlike narrator looks…
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James C. Scott and the Art of Resistance
“In Praise of Floods” (Yale), a study of rivers by the late political scientist James C. Scott, arrives after a year of catastrophic…
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The Evolution of a Folk-Punk Hero
Patrick Schneeweis was never the voice of a generation, but perhaps he was the voice of a tendency. To a small but fervent and far-flung…
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The Frick Returns, Richer Than Ever
The Frick Collection, on East Seventieth Street, is, by so many miles, the finest small city museum—less self-consciously eccentric than…
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The Evolution of Dance Theatre of Harlem
From the start, Dance Theatre of Harlem’s history has been a cycle of struggle and triumph. The dancer Arthur Mitchell founded it in 1969,…
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Retro Masculinity in “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “Good Night, and Good Luck”
At the climax of David Mamet’s masterpiece “Glengarry Glen Ross”—now at the Palace, in its fourth Broadway production since 1984—a…
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“Warfare” Offers a Hyperrealist Rebuke of the American War Movie
“Warfare” ends the way a lot of movies based on true events do: with a series of side-by-side photographs. Here are the characters you’ve…
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Meet Foster, Italy’s New Editorial Project Launching at Salone del Mobile
MILAN — There’s a new bimonthly magazine set to launch here next week, just in time for Salone del Mobile. The buzzy design event…