Category: Arts & Entertainment

Afrika Bambaataa, a man widely considered one of the main pioneers of hip-hop, died in Pennsylvania of prostate cancer on Thursday, according to his lawyer.

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If you collected Pokemon cards as a kid, here’s hoping you held onto them. The Japanese franchise has been popular for decades, but it’s become the latest speculative boom.

Mary Fariba Afsari’s book, Labor, is a portrait of reproductive healthcare in post-Dobbs America. Her book also is about her Iranian heritage and her grandmother’s death from an illegal abortion.

Much of our image of Dylan derives from his early protest music, but Robert Polito’s book makes the argument that the most recent 30 years of Dylan’s career have been just as creative as the first 30.

The new Netflix comedy created by Dan Levy and Rachel Sennott stars Levy as an uptight pastor and Taylor Ortega as his sister.

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I think it’s best that I stay here cradling these baby squirrels. That’s pretty much all I’m capable of doing right now.

The books we’re spotlighting this month don’t exactly radiate escapist good vibes — but they do offer the opportunity to step into someone else’s life and get to know their view of our shared world.

In 2020, Annabelle Gurwitch went to urgent care for a COVID-19 test and learned she had cancer. She writes about life as a “cancer slacker” in her memoir, The End of My Life is Killing Me.

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A tortured Oslo police detective may be on the trail of a psycho killer in this genuinely suspenseful screen adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s The Devil’s Star.

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From dystopian drama to Silicon Valley satire, a wave of buzzy new series — and a few big finales — arrives all at once.

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