Tag: humor

In his first nonfiction book in a decade, Coates reflects on what he learned while visiting three different places: Senegal, South Carolina and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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I want to embrace amor fati, but I really can no longer recollect who I once was.

In the new Netflix series Nobody Wants This, Kristen Bell plays an agnostic podcaster, who meets a rabbi, played by Adam Brody. They like each other immediately, but there are some hurdles for them when it comes to being together. The show offers plenty of romantic comedy banter and good chemistry, as well as some pretty deep questions about faith and compatibility.

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The dangerously monikered cactus is a source of joy in the Southwest. Albuquerque celebrates with music and yummy opuntia treats.

“I like when everybody’s knees are almost touching and it feels very intimate,” the Barefoot Contessa host says. Garten’s new memoir is Be Ready When the Luck Happens.

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Dylan’s 40-show 1974 tour with The Band produced a live double-album later that year. Now, the music available from that tour has increased dramatically with the release of a new 27-CD set.

A marmalade-loving bear, some neato gadgets, Ben Whishaw, plus dread.

The latest season of HBO’s Industry was over the top. The drama is about backstabbing, morally compromised investment bankers. But it managed to make its characters even more backstabb-y and ethically dubious than ever before. Frenemies fought hard. Buried vices and addictions came to light. And death hovered over the entire season in shocking fashion.

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Industry is less concerned with whether its characters are “likable” and more interested in how they get what they want. In the Season 3 finale, those ambitions reached their inevitable – sometimes gruesome – conclusions.

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Musician and film star Kris Kristofferson has died at age 88. His hit songs include “Me and Bobby McGee” and he starred in dozens of films, including A Star Is Born, opposite Barbra Streisand.

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