Arts
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Taylor Swift Breaks a Record for Most Weeks at No. 1 on the LP Chart
The latest success of “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” gives Swift 68 weeks atop the Billboard 200, surpassing Elvis Presley’s record.
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Jelly Roll, an Unlikely New Star, on the Grammys and His Rap Past
An interview with one of the year’s surprise success stories in the music industry, who’s become known as much for…
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What’s in a Name? The Battle of Baby T. Rex and Nanotyrannus.
A dinosaur fossil for sale in London embodies one of the most heated debates in paleontology.
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Unfurling the Unusual Costumes of ‘Poor Things’
The designer Holly Waddington breaks down how Emma Stone’s Bella Baxter evolves onscreen, from her childish knickers to her cage-like…
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Review: The Met’s New ‘Carmen’ Trades Castanets for Cutoffs
Starring a magnetic Aigul Akhmetshina, Carrie Cracknell’s lethargic staging updates Bizet’s opera to present-day America.
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America Ferrera and the ‘Barbie’ Monologue We All Talked About
Listing some of the many perils of womanhood in a still patriarchal society, the monologue that the actress America Ferrera…
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Emily Blunt Doesn’t Care if Her ‘Oppenheimer’ Character Is Likable
As the brilliant but flawed Kitty Oppenheimer, the actress plays a woman who had “extraordinary qualities, as well as ones…
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What Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2024
“Mad Max” gets a prequel, “The Wiz” returns to Broadway and Larry David gets another crack at a series finale.
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With Tom Wilkinson, Would You Get a Time Bomb or a Warm Hug?
In his performances in “Michael Clayton” and other films, he brought an element of danger and uncertainty that kept us…
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Dave Chappelle Assumes We’re Already Offended in His New Netflix Special
“The Dreamer” predictably includes trans and disabled jokes but punches down in other ways, too. Chappelle is part of a…