Arts/Entertainment

The belated excavation of black classical music continues apace. A submerged chapter of American cultural history, more eventful than heretofore imagined, is swiftly generating performances, recordings and scholarly attention. The…
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Some movies not only entertain and inspire but convey broader lessons. “Air” is one of them. The film is about Nike ’s efforts in 1984 to secure Michael Jordan’s endorsement of its basketball shoes, which soon after became the…
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Depicting the interior inspiration of an artist is a challenge for a film director, which is why most biopics of creative folk tend to focus instead on gossip and surface—tempestuous affairs, bad behavior and the like. In “Hilma,”…
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Warner Bros. Discovery has spent months wooing the creator of ‘Harry Potter’ to bless the creation of a TV series based…
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The success of “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” has demonstrated the value of Nintendo’s game franchises. But the Japanese company needs to make much better use of them to level up for investors. A new movie…
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The success of “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” has demonstrated the value of Nintendo’s game franchises. But the Japanese company needs to make much better use of them to level up for investors. A new movie…
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Once it seemed there was never anything good on TV. Streaming has only solved part of the problem.  Viewers certainly are awash in content: According to Reelgood, which aggregates data from streaming…
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“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” had a blockbuster opening weekend, racking up $146 million over three days and stomping the competition at the domestic box office, according to studio estimates Sunday. The animated movie, a collaboration…
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NEW YORK—In the ever-dramatic world of opera, conflicts of all sorts play out behind the scenes. Singers make royal demands of management. Musicians push for better pay.Deep in the bowels of New York City’s Metropolitan Opera on a recent…
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All free…with a library card. One way to lower your costs: Lean into your local library’s free digital perks, which go well beyond ebooks. (Libraries also offer plenty of nondigital perks, such as museum passes and ukulele loans as well as…
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