Tag: humor

Now that Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in the same space by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese may finally get their due.

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Proposal: “Mar-a-Lago 2.” Formal Title: Decreasing the Burden of American Allies. Effect: Annexation of Okinawa.

Parker has been trying to find her place in the banjo world. So this week, she talks to Black banjo players like Grammy nominee Rhiannon Giddens about creating community and reclaiming an instrument that’s historically already theirs.

How do you bring the African Diaspora to the Grammys?

Esperanza Spalding and Milton Nascimento’s contrasting tones make a perfect team on Milton + esperanza, a collection of covers, duets, and original songs that have earned the pair a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Today, Brittany and Esperanza get into the years-long intergenerational friendship behind the music, and the Brazilian influences on the album.

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Starbucks is trying to fix falling sales by changing its vibe back to coffee-house roots. The new CEO says parts of the plan, like free non-dairy milk, are helping bring people back.

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Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King’s wedding dress, to present day cobalt mining. Her new book is Black in Blues.

While NASA was trying to put a man on the moon, the Navy was quietly conducting a series of tests to see if humans could live and work on the deep seafloor.

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Look for these freshly minted coins, coming soon to a lint trap (or jar!) near you.

An exhibition at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from other countries.

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In the new Steven Soderbergh film Presence, a family moves into an old house, and weird stuff starts happening. But what’s different about this haunted house story is that the movie told from the point of view of the ghost. We only get glimpses of the family, but gradually we start to piece together their brittle dynamic.

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