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Celebrity Race Across the World locations: Where is the 2025 series filmed?
Race Across the World is back, and this time it's the celebrities who are taking on one of the most challenging adventures on TV, as they…
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A softer image of AI? This Google-backed film aims to change the narrative
A man mourns the loss of his dead celebrity mom, who unexpectedly appears before him as a hologram in his childhood home, singing and…
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The Best Podcasts of 2025
Ah, 2025—yet another heck of a year! In the audio realm, as elsewhere, inventiveness is essential during challenging times—so when…
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The Best Albums of 2025
Looking back at the songs I played the most in 2025, I can sense my own hunger for music that felt wounded, carnal, unfamiliar, tactile,…
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“An Enemy of the People” Becomes a Spanish Opera
Perhaps Rigola should have been more willful in his handling of the text, since his libretto unfolds more like a selection of highlights…
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How Noah Baumbach Fell (Back) in Love with the Movies
It was somewhere on a deserted highway in Ohio at about 4 A.M., with a rain machine, while I was shooting “White Noise.” I think I felt,…
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How 'Stranger Things' became Netflix's 'Star Wars,' propelling it into Hollywood's stratosphere
Before the sci-fi series “Stranger Things” premiered on Netflix, several traditional studios had already passed on it. Its creators were…
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California rejoins fight over Nazi-looted painting held by Spanish museum
California is once again fighting in federal court for a Jewish family’s right to have a precious Impressionist painting returned to them…
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'Wicked: For Good' was filmed at this surreal National Park in Egypt
When Wicked: For Good hits theaters on Friday, audiences might think they’re looking at CGI. But those sweeping white rock formations that…
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Little-known treasures of a city's hidden museum
The city of Hull boasts a plethora of museums and galleries, as well as world-renowned tourist attractions, including The Deep aquarium.…
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The Icelandic Artist Ragnar Kjartansson, Absurd and Profound in Equal Measures
Kader Attia’s film “La Valise Oubliée” (2024) cracks open a well of family memories, employing photographs and archival materials buried…
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Netflix is revamping its gaming strategy to win more users. Is it working?
Inside an office in Hollywood, not far from the Walk of Fame and the Sunset Bronson Studios, Netflix executive Alain Tascan revealed new…
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Pope Leo XIV reveals a very wholesome list of favorite films. You expected different?
The “Purge” movies are missing from the list, as are the entries in the “Saw” franchise. There are no “Evil Dead” titles. “The Exorcist”…
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Rosalía Doesn’t Want to Take It Easy
Sometimes it seems as if everyone wants to be a pop girlie. Last year, Taylor Swift counted herself among the “tortured poets,” but…
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A Visit to Sarasota’s Ringling Museum
It’s both whimsical and serious, though its website is awful. And, Governor DeSantis, don’t mess with its governance. Source link
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Lucy Dacus and Rufus Wainwright Talk with Amanda Petrusich
On October 26, 2025, the musicians Lucy Dacus and Rufus Wainwright took the stage for a discussion with the New Yorker staff writer Amanda…
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The Dishy Operatics of Lily Allen’s Breakup Album
In late October, two days after the British singer-songwriter Lily Allen unexpectedly released her confessional fifth album, “West End…
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A Bulgarian Novelist Explores What Dies When Your Father Does
That’s where time visibly slows down, it dozes off in the corners, blinking like a cat looking through thin blinds. It’s always afternoon…
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Anthony Hopkins’s Beckettian Memoir
Hamlet, to say the least, was in a similar pickle, and it’s almost comically appropriate that Hopkins’s memoir should be so…
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What do war, feminism and love smell like? This German exhibition 'nose' the answer
Paintings hang lifelessly in the long corridors of museums we visited on school trips. Marble sculptures stand forever frozen in action.…
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Laurie Metcalf’s Stunning Return to Broadway in “Little Bear Ridge Road”
Samuel D. Hunter’s “Little Bear Ridge Road,” directed by Joe Mantello at the Booth, on Broadway, is a small, quiet drama set in a large,…
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Claire-Louise Bennett’s Misanthropic Breakup Novel
And the narrator, despite her waning attraction, continues to call and write to him. She is recalcitrant as a rule. This is a woman who,…
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Emma Thompson Talks with Helen Shaw
On October 26, 2025, the actor and writer Emma Thompson joined the staff writer Helen Shaw for a discussion at the 26th annual New Yorker…