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“Sidney,” a documentary about the actor and filmmaker Sidney Poitier, who died in January, is a compendium of hero worship. The director is …
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A little more than 12 hours after he heard that Russian civilians could be pressed into military service in the Ukraine war, the tour guide …
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If Loren Connors was going to get to his gig, the guitarist knew he would need to crawl. It was late January 2007, two months after he had …
Continue readingAs freed Ukrainian soldiers return, joy and relief ripple across the country.
KYIV, Ukraine — Diana Pashko has spent many sleepless nights since her husband, a Ukrainian soldier who fought in the southern port city of …
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At the center of “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina,” a revelatory exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art …
Continue reading‘On the Come Up’ Review: Battle Rap’s Next Big Thing?
If you’ve seen “8 Mile” or the more recent cinematic delight “The Forty-Year-Old Version” you already know that in a movie with battle rap at the …
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