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Steven Spielberg has returned with a new movie that has already created excitement among fans. The filmmaker behind classics like E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Minority Report and War of ...

The blues didn’t arrive from the US as something alien. It arrived as something curiously familiar. See how bands across Scandinavia have made the sound their own.

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For years, Britain has argued not only about how to tackle anti-Muslim hatred, but whether it could even be defined in terms that public ...

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In 1996, Phish’s Trey Anastasio formed a free-form jazz ensemble that came and went without much fanfare. 30 years later, their only album opens a door to a world of improvisational music that goes ...

In 2006, Ryan Gosling, then in his twenties, starred in a tough-minded, low-budget drama called “Half Nelson,” in which he played a middle-school teacher hobbled by a crack addiction. Years later, the ...

This week. the House of Representatives of New Hampshire, one of the states that pioneered public education, passed on a party-line vote yet another bill limiting what teachers can teach. Many such ...

As the awards season reaches its climax, Adam Nayman looks deeper at the how and the why of acting excellence, as well as the who.