Trumps Plan To Skip Kennedy Center Honors — Again
The President and First Lady have announced that, “at this time,” they do not intend to be present next month at the prestigious awards ceremony, whose honorees include Lin-Manuel Miranda and Cher.
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23 Things For Anyone Who’s Lazy But Also Wants A Clean House
Jonathan Franzen Finds Hope In Nature In ‘The End Of The End Of The Earth’
A new collection the author’s essays spans art, nature and autobiography — taking aim at people he meets in daily life but also exposing his own vulnerabilities.
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I’m a Nineteenth-Century Novel, and I Have a Lot to Say About These Drapes
Eli Burnstein humorously inhabits the perspective of a nineteenth-century novel that is overly concerned with describing window dressings.
The True-Story, Love-Triangle, Prison-Break Drama ‘Escape At Dannemora’
Pulled from the headlines, a new Showtime series features sexual liaisons between two inmates and a prison worker (Patricia Arquette) and a comedic actor (Ben Stiller) in the serious director’s chair.
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A Heist, And A Whole Lot More, As Viola Davis Delivers In ‘Widows’
The exciting, engaging, entertaining Widows is the rare fun heist film that also functions as a solid drama, thanks largely to the lead performance from Viola Davis.
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Sigrid Nunez, Elizabeth Acevedo Among 2018 National Book Award Winners
Nunez and Acevedo won for fiction and young people’s literature, respectively. The prestigious literary prize also honored Jeffrey C. Stewart, Justin Phillip Reed, Yoko Tawada and Margaret Mitsutani.
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Recently Divorced 40-Year-Old Struggling To Navigate College Dating Scene
COLUMBUS, OH—Noting that the contemporary romantic vibe was totally different than the one he experienced in the late Clinton era, recently divorced advertising copywriter Richard Hamlin, 40, admitted Wednesday that he was struggling to navigate the college dating scene. “It’s not easy jumping back into the acton,…
Amazon Officially Picks New York, Northern Virginia For Next Headquarters
Bringing to an end over a year of speculation, Amazon officially chose Long Island City, NY and Arlington, VA for their next headquarters, offering 50,000 jobs to the regions, while dividing locals who worry about rising property costs and transportation concerns. What do you think?