Month: January 2023

Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith created The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales in 1992. They remember their work on the classic children’s book and how their partnership began.

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The Grant Avenue Follies are steeped in tap dance and the songs of the 1950s and ’60s. But they are no strangers to hip-hop, as the track “That Lunar Cheer” shows.

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Queenie: Godmother of Harlem tells the overlooked story of Stephanie Saint Clair, or “Queenie,” a Black female mob boss and fashion icon who lived during the height of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Nominations for the 95th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday. A number of films are up for top awards.

Often eaten with big groups of friends and family, hot pot is a single cauldron of soup with boundless possibilities. Ahead of the Lunar New Year, we joined up with some hot pot aficionados in Queens.

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This Lunar New Year, the Vietnamese will observe a different animal in the zodiac, the cat. The reasons are murky: could be linguistics or the landscape — or maybe cats are just plain friendlier.

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You may know about Rapp from TikTok, TV or Broadway. But she says all of that has just been in service of her true passion: a solo music career.

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Distract yourself by reading a complex text like “Trout Fishing in America,” but not that one.

Manga artist Hajime Isayama says when he was growing up in Japan, anime wasn’t considered cool. Now, he says, he has a “global audience” in mind.

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