Friday's Top 50 Arts & Culture News & Stories
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Gov. Pat McCrory announced Friday that Valerie Macon would serve as North Carolina's poet laureate for the next two years. Macon will choose a long-term project to focus on in… Click to Continue »
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You can find anything at a flea market -- weird, life-sized dummies, ancient weapons and, you know, more mainstream things like vintage furniture and antiques. Summer is the unofficial flea market season. And while there are many to choo...
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Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s opera “The Passenger,” at the Park Avenue Armory, explores a fateful encounter between a former Nazi death camp inmate and her SS overseer.
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Push it to the limit.
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Oops.
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A preview of an upcoming exhibition at the Liberty Science Center.
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Looks like Bosh isn't heading West.
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Hopefully it loses some weight too.
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An English museum has sold off an ancient Egyptian statue, drawing criticism from some who said it should have been returned to Egypt.
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An English museum has sold off an ancient Egyptian statue, drawing criticism from some who said it should have been returned to Egypt.
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Basketball star LeBron James' decision to return to the Cleveland Caveliers after a championship stint with the Miami Heat was the top story in the sports world Friday.
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The July Fourth Regional in Jacksonville, Fla., ran from June 30 to July 6.
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Just in case you were worried about having enough time for both.
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Le concept de Dopinglinkki a été créé autour de l’idée de la dualité. D’un côté, les avantages que l’utilisateur reçoit de l’aide de substances dopantes et de l’autre côté les dommages qu’elles causent...
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Trying to clean up their act.
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Campers began arriving at the three-day music festival in Saugerties, N.Y. on Thursday night.
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Campers began arriving at the three-day music festival in Saugerties, N.Y. on Thursday night.
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Two new colorways.
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“ValueVille,” with the New York Musical Theater Festival, tells of employees suffering through their work at a chain store.
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How much does it suck to be Da Real Lambo? How awesome is it to be the city of Cleveland?
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In “Strain,” a new series beginning on Sunday on FX, the Centers for Disease Control investigate a virus linked to vampirism.
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Finally, an interactive map designed for everyone’s inner 12-year-old. Geotechnologist Gary Gale compiled a list of dirty-sounding or crassly named places in the world and put them on a map, titled “ Vaguely Rude Place Names Of The World...
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This is sad.
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This account of the bagpipers of the First World War had harrowing moments, says Ed Power
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Sandra Oh, of “Grey’s Anatomy” fame, stars in a different kind of doctor drama in Ariel Dorfman’s “Death and the Maiden,” in Chicago.
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Charles Busch, the playwright and sometime drag performer, serves up comedy, music, nostalgia and his longtime alter ego Miriam Passman at 54 Below.
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The Emerson String Quartet played the last five of Shostakovich’s 15 Quartets in a single performance at Tanglewood on Thursday evening.
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Kara Walker’s “A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby,” which has been cut up and cleaned and taken away for recycling, is a contribution to the grand tradition of ephemeral art.
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The 12 years Richard Linklater spent making "Boyhood" appear to have been time well spent. The coming-of-age drama starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke and Lorelai Linklater (the director's daughter) and shot over more...
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“Masters of Sex,” the Showtime drama that begins a second season on Sunday, uses erotica as a way to get into the psyches of its characters in the prefeminist days of the 1950s.
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Magic!, known for its reggae-rock, celebrated its No. 2 hit single and its new album at the Marlin Room on Thursday.
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Not one, and not two, but we've got a summer full of three "supermoons" ahead of us -- and the first one is set to peak this Saturday at 7:25 a.m. EDT. These supermoons -- July 12, Aug. 10 and Sept. 9 -- will appear even bigger and brigh...
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Ironically, this documentary chickened out of any real controversy, says Gerard O'Donovan
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New York City Ballet danced works by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Justin Peck, its new resident choreographer, on Thursday afternoon at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
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The nomination of "Orange Is the New Black" cast member Laverne Cox on Thursday provided a benchmark to be celebrated during a panel about LGBT representation on television.
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The best advice we have for wedding guests who fancy themselves photographers is to leave the picture-taking duties to the professionals. Unfortunately, there is always going to be someone who doesn't heed that advice. In a new video fro...
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Voici la « Rambla House » réalisée par Land Arquitectos située dans la région de Valparaíso au Chili. Ce qui semble à première vue être un site à moitié fini, est en réalité un bâtiment doté d’un espace de vie i...
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In the early 1960s, abstract artist Mark Rothko created five murals for a penthouse dining room at Harvard University. By the late '70s they were trashed — sun-faded and splattered with cocktails.
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Germany thrashed Brazil 7-1 this week. Author Kevin Roose says Ernest Thayer's classic poem on failure, "Casey at the Bat," might cheer the Brazilian soccer team up.
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All right, all right, all right. The Emmy nominees were announced on Thursday, and Matthew McConaughey joined the short list of actors who have received both an Oscar and an Emmy nod in the same year. It was a good morning for “Ora...
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An earthy production of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” starring Richard Armitage, is playing at the Old Vic in London.
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The Danish-American architect Knud Lonberg-Holm belonged to that moment in the 1920s when de Stijl principles were translated into three-dimensional space.
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We knew the Internet was full of buried gems, but this video -- uploaded way back in 2011 by Carlos C. -- wins (the wrestling match of) the day. While we're certainly familiar with wrestlers yelling in the heat of the moment, we've never...
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Singer-songwriter Louise Goffin transformed her record release party at a Hollywood recording studio this week from a solo acoustic affair into a full-band presentation less than 24 hours before the event.
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When they're not charging their opponents, one women's rugby team is tackling the body love revolution. Members of the Harvard Women's Rugby team shot a series of photographs celebrating body love and acceptance featured on their Tumblr ...
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Ben Brantley reports on “Richard III” with Martin Freeman and a revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s “A Small Family Business.”
