Books
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Woman Testifies R. Kelly Sexually Abused Her on Video When She Was 14
CHICAGO — In 2008, a jury in Chicago declared the singer R. Kelly not guilty of producing child sexual abuse imagery after seeing a videotape ...
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Daryl McCormack Has More Than Luck on His Side
Early last year, Daryl McCormack’s East London neighbors seemed determined to do some matchmaking: “Oh, you should meet Sharon,” they said. “My ...
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Her Art Comes Without Trigger Warnings
In the last three years, Tiona Nekkia McClodden has emerged as one of the most singular artists of our aesthetically rich, free-range time. She ...
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Meet the ‘Better Call Saul’ Staffers Who Kept Its Story Straight
If there’s one takeaway from the moral and ideological universe of “Better Call Saul” — and its similarly meditative parent series “Breaking Bad ...
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‘Beast’ Review: More Bore Than Roar
Sometime soon, “Beast” will hit the great streaming graveyard. Say a prayer and move on. By that point, you will have heard that it’s a dud. And ...
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‘Spin Me Round’ Review: Eat Pray Lust
“Spin Me Round,” directed by Jeff Baena, is a kooky romp where unworldly travelers trip over their own fantasies of Europe. It follows the ...
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A Conductor Comes Into His Own in the Opera Pit
SANTA FE, N.M. — “I was skeptical,” James Gaffigan said while waiting for huevos rancheros during a recent lunch here, where his run conducting a ...
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‘Patience’ Review: At the Top of His Game, and Lonely
The most powerful line in “Patience,” Johnny G. Lloyd’s new play about Black excellence, comes not from the world-champion solitaire player at ...
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Trisha Brown on the Beach: Catch a Wave of Dancing Bliss
The dancers were sinking. Even the softest of waves were too much for their feet — strong as they were — to hold their own in the soggy late ...
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The Reinvention of Aubrey Plaza
In “Emily the Criminal” (now in theaters), Aubrey Plaza plays a hapless, desultory young woman weighed down by student loans like Atlas by the ...