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As New York Reopens, It Looks for Culture to Lead the Way
Broadway is planning to start performances of at least three dozen shows before the end of the year, but producers do not know if there…
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Biz Markie, Hip-Hop’s ‘Just a Friend’ Clown Prince, Dies at 57
Biz Markie, the innovative yet proudly goofy rapper, D.J. and producer whose self-deprecating lyrics and off-key wail on songs like “Just a Friend” earned him…
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Cautious Clay Makes Music About Love in the Digital Age
Name: Cautious Clay Age: 28 Hometown: Cleveland Currently Lives: In a nine-bedroom brownstone in south Brooklyn, with 11 roommates. Claim to Fame: Joshua Karpeh, who…
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‘Aline’: The Crazy Celine Dion Movie at Cannes
CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival is meant to be a holy temple of cinema, a place where sober works from the most respected…
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‘Aline’: The Crazy Celine Dion Movie at Cannes
CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival is meant to be a holy temple of cinema, a place where sober works from the most respected…
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Why Do English Soccer Fans Sing ‘Sweet Caroline’?
That changed in 2002, when a new executive vice president of public affairs, Charles Steinberg, convinced the control room to put the song on regular…
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The Subversive Joy of Lil Nas X’s Gay Pop Stardom
After an extended custody battle, the brothers begrudgingly moved in with their father. The move took them, as Lamarco put it, from “hood county to…
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China’s Communist Party Turns 100. Cue the (State-Approved) Music.
“These cultural products have their own artistic value,” said Denise Ho, assistant professor of history at Yale University who studies 20th century history in China.…
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Whistling as an Art Almost Died Off. Can Molly Lewis Keep It Alive?
Molly Lewis lives at the top of a steep hill in East Los Angeles, where a group of feral peafowl roam idly around, as if…
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