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Sitting in on the Obamas’ first date and The Light Between Oceans
The average rom-com loves couples who “meet cute.”
The new flickSouthside With You is not exactly a rom-com, and it’s definitely not average. Its subject, after all, is the first date of Barack Obama and future first lady Michelle Robinson…
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Return to Broadway, in which I learn to love the Cha Cha Slide
I’m something of a musical tourist. Once a year or so some friends and I travel to some American city famous for its music – New Orleans, Bakersfield or whatever – and spend a long weekend. This year was two nights in Memphis, with a stop at…
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Anarchists, prison abolitionists, socialists march to support September 9 prison strike
The 13th Amendment is celebrated for abolishing slavery. But many Americans are not aware that it includes a legal exception for continuing slave labor in the prison system: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for…
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The Felice Brothers: Not your daddy's folk music.
The Felice Brothers aren't highfalutin'. The country boys from the Catskills would rather record an album in an unassuming farm garage shared by chickens than in a fancy studio in the big city. And that's just what they did with their new release…
// Opinion
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