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The band was willfully ironic and averse to canonization. An aggressively heady new movie it inspired, “Pavements,” thumbs ...

When we’re in a scene together, I’m just watching you in awe.” Susie Essman: “How lucky we are to be in the presence of such ...

Two New York productions of Strauss’s opera reposition its necrophiliac protagonist as a perverse instrument of justice.

The experimental folk musician and a music historian wander around SoHo in search of long-lost friends and neighbors.

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Some toy ideas for kids lamenting their new two-doll allowance, including Dusty the Dust Bowl, Potato Princess, and more.

A former community-college sociology professor, who broke into comedy as the Super 70s Sports guy on Twitter, drops by for a ...

Baptise Trogneux, a sixth-generation chocolatier, opens the inaugural Paris outpost of his clan’s famous sweet shop.

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