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Esperanza Spalding Review: ‘Radio’ Heralds Jazz’s First Music-Video Star
New album establishes Spalding as that rarest of things, a jazz singer capable of crossing over with self-penned tunes
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Global Heating Novel ‘Polar City Red’ Would Make a Cool Movie
GUEST BLOG: Jim Laughter paints a chilling portrait of a dystopian future in his novel ‘Polar City Red,” which is likely to draw fire from the right and the left
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‘Hunger Games’ Album Review: NPR-ish Teen Angst From Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, Arcade Fire
T Bone Burnett’s quietly wily companion album for the movie eschews pulse-pounding tension for acoustic angst
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‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’: It’s All About Happy Endings
GUEST BLOG: Cynthia and Peter celebrate, Nene reconsiders Gregg and Kandi and Jo Dee Messina duet again on “Real Housewives of Atlanta”
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Frank Frazetta Could Have Helped ‘John Carter’
GUEST BLOG: Pixar and Disney made a mistake when they decided not to use the stylings of artist and Edgar Rice Burroughs collaborator Frank Frazetta on “John Carter”
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10 Years Later, Fake Sartre Remains Viral — Even on the N.Y. Times
Guest Blog: Fact-checkers, where are you? Sartre never said, “Hell is other people at breakfast”!
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Dan Bloom -
Richard Nixon’s Secret War on JFK’s Health
Guest Blog: But Nixon had his dirty health secret, too — he was seeing a shrink
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Picasso Visits ‘Downton Abbey’
Guest Blog: An encounter with another wealthy family and inheritance
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Carole Mallory -
‘Once’ Review: Cast Album Not the Real Swell Season, But An Incredible Simulation
The bitter edge of Glen Hansard’s voice is missing in otherwise lovely Broadway cast covers of tunes from the indie film hit “Once”
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‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’: Sweetie’s Getting Fired and We’re Getting Tired
GUEST BLOG: Kim can’t find Sweetie, Phaedra’s mastering mortuary makeup and Peter and Cynthia celebrate one year together
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Why Reality TV Will Never Produce a Julia Child or Picasso
“Next Great [Whatever]” shows don’t want great talents — they want ratings. Which strips away any real drama over who wins
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Magnetic Fields Review: Anything Comedic Goes on Hilarious ‘Love at the Bottom of the Sea’
If you love both Stephen Sondheim and Soft Cell, you’re the target audience for Stephen Merrit’s latest marriage of ’80s-style synth-pop and arch, theatrical wit-eracy
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New Zealand Is Fertile Ground for a Filmmaking Boom
New Zealand has magnificent and highly diverse landscapes within close proximity of each other and, thanks to filmmakers like Peter Jackson, an incredible local infrastructure
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Real Housewives of Atlanta Leave Africa – But Is Kim Really a Racist?
Chima Simone’s recap: Souvenirs were not the only baggage the women brought home with them
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Chima Simone -
The 5 Stages of Oscar-Viewing Grief
Every year, people act as if this hasn’t happened before and are plunged into the same Kubler Ross stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance
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Mali Perl