Books
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Lorne Michaels Discusses the ‘Year of Reinvention’ Coming to ‘S.N.L.’
Whether you think “Saturday Night Live” is on an upswing or in a downturn, change is coming to the long-running…
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Lena Dunham Channels a Voice of a (Different) Generation
Lena Dunham considers herself a historian of her own generation. As the creator of the HBO series “Girls,” she became…
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Why Does Hollywood Keep Using Fat Suits?
Slender Courteney Cox portraying a plump teenage Monica Geller on “Friends” started the gag in ’90s Hollywood. Gwyneth Paltrow’s role…
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Harvey Awards to Induct New Hall of Fame Members
The Harvey Awards, which honors exemplary comic book work, will be adding members to its Hall of Fame at New…
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7 Audiobooks to Listen to Now
🎧 Uncultured: A Memoir By Daniella Mestyanek Young, with Brandi Larsen. Read by the author. Raised in the Children of…
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How Much Would You Pay to Hear Great Music?
“I’m a cellist, and I have played in orchestras my entire life,” Blake-Anthony Johnson, the president and chief executive of…
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‘A Jazzman’s Blues’ Review: Tyler Perry Revisits a Jim Crow-Era Romance
“A Jazzman’s Blues,” Tyler Perry’s melodrama about ill-fated teenagers who fall in love in rural Georgia, marks the writer-director-studio head’s…
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From Prison to the Art Gallery
In 2010, in the recreation center of the Fairton Federal Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison for men in South New…
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Zach Bryan Is Music’s Most Reluctant New Star
INDIANAPOLIS — In late May, Zach Bryan released “American Heartbreak,” a bracing and shaggily elegant 34-song country-folk opus that served…
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Making a Meal of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Last Friday night, a group of about a dozen of us walked into a woman’s vagina. It was red, French-accented…