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“Far-out” is an accurate, but inadequate, descriptor for the high-flying (and often plain high) cultural magus named Harry Smith (1923-91). And the label “polymath,” too, while true, falls short for this innovative painter-filmmaker-collagist-musicologist-designer-scholar-curator-collector/hoarder, whose very first and very strange (it could not be otherwise) institutional solo is at the Whitney Museum of American Art. When…

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MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzalez and Gavin Edwards Hollywood doesn’t believe in immortals. From Mary Pickford to the MGM musical, Golden Age cowboys to teenage wizards, the city worships its gods only until their box-office power dims. So it feels audacious — if not foolhardy — to open “MCU:…

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Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter As Britney Spears gears up for the release of her upcoming memoir, The Woman in Me, focus has been placed on her Instagram…

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After chips quarrel, 11-year-old shoots two teens in Florida. Daily Mail A shocking incident unfolded during a Pop Warner football practice in Apopka, Florida, as an 11-year-old boy retrieved a gun from his mother’s vehicle and shot two 13-year-olds following a heated dispute.  The altercation had initially sparked over a bag of chips. Eyewitnesses at…

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The ongoing Pakistan Theater Festival in Karachi continues to captivate audiences with its thought-provoking and engaging plays. On the 20th and 21st days of the festival, two remarkable theatre productions, Nocturnal and Art Aur Aata, took centre stage, leaving attendees deeply moved and intellectually stimulated. On the 20th day of the Pakistan Theater Festival, theatre…

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This was particularly galling to Mr. Kirkman, a staunch liberal who included an antiwar song, “Requiem for the Masses,” as the B-side of the “Never My Love” single. “I am a natural-born civil rights activist from Kansas, and I was on the road with three guys who were really conservative, reactionary people,” he told Mr….

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Responses to the Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s new relaxation of Senate dress codes have so far fallen along partisan lines: Republicans have been deploring it as a lapse in decorum and order. “Most if not all Republican senators think we ought to dress up to go to work,” Mitch McConnell said. Mitt Romney called…

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Moving to New York is almost always a decision informed partly by fantasy. It’s impossible to escape the fictional versions of the city that proliferate in books, art, music — and, perhaps most vividly, in movies and television shows, with their typically romantic (and typically misleading) depictions of rent-stabilized studios and affordable brownstones. To coincide…

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