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It had to be fought for against intense internal resistance, broke every rule of television programming at the time, and ...

When we’re in a scene together, I’m just watching you in awe.” Susie Essman: “How lucky we are to be in the presence of such ...

The experimental folk musician and a music historian wander around SoHo in search of long-lost friends and neighbors.

Dozens of religious leaders experienced magic mushrooms in a university study. Many are now evangelists for psychedelics.

Purpling in the fat bulb where the void spreads, Like a film fuming at its reel, the screen Surviving as mere abstract ...

Two New York productions of Strauss’s opera reposition its necrophiliac protagonist as a perverse instrument of justice.

Some toy ideas for kids lamenting their new two-doll allowance, including Dusty the Dust Bowl, Potato Princess, and more.

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A former community-college sociology professor, who broke into comedy as the Super 70s Sports guy on Twitter, drops by for a ...

Baptise Trogneux, a sixth-generation chocolatier, opens the inaugural Paris outpost of his clan’s famous sweet shop.

Twist ,” by the Irish author Colum McCann, projects an impatience with the idea that our individual and subjective experiences of the internet have much more meaning to yield. Instead, the book takes ...