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Downtowns Are Full of Empty Buildings. Universities Are Moving In.
The stylish new Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center took over a former museum in Washington. It’s got potential to become a community hub.
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Largely Ignored by the Western World, Africa’s Medieval Treasures Shine at the Met
North Africa’s influences radiated throughout Byzantium, helping to create a Golden Age. These objects are high on the beauty and rarity scale.
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With her Dad, Ben Vereen, by Her Side, Karon Davis Turns to Dance
The focus of her art is on realities that Black dancers face in the world of ballet. First she sculpted real dancers; then she brought in a familiar expert to help bring them to life.
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For Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Hair Is Rooted in Pride
The Philadelphia artist’s show at Artists Space considers how hair cutting, grooming and caregiving help create a Black queer community.
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Kokomo City Named IFSN Advocate Award Winner
When D. Smith’s “Kokomo City” premiered at Sundance this year, Nick Allen wrote, “The women interviewed here—Liyah Mitchell, Dominque Silver, Koko Da Doll, and Daniella Carter—are scholars of their experience. Smith empowers them throughout, giving them space in the edit and with each extreme close-up of a weaponized body part, sometimes in slow motion. The editing by D.…
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Next Goal Wins
Can you call a film formulaic if it’s based on things that really happened? Maybe. As with any movie, it’s all about the tone and style: the choices made by the storytellers. “Next Goal Wins” is a case study, unfortunately. It’s an inspirational football comedy, co-written and directed by Taika Waititi (two Thor films, “Jojo Rabbit,” et al) with Iain…
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Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story
Is Tyler Perry running for office? Despite a few moments that allow critical or at least skeptical views of the actor/writer/director/studio mogul, “Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story” is like a nearly two-hour ad for Perry, the sort of thing you’d play at a political convention to hype the crowd. There’s no denying at this point that…
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Black Harvest Film Festival 2023 Highlights: John Singleton, Tyler Perry, and A Vibrant Artistic Community
If Gelila Bekele and Armani Ortiz’s “Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story,” the origin documentary about the rise of the divisive mogul, could deliver on one promise, it arises as an undeniable crowd pleaser. Despite its intrusive, cacophonous score and its heavy-handedness—deployed to burnish another laurel to Perry’s noted career—the broad film still felt quite…
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Apple TV+’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Doesn’t Have a Big Enough Footprint
Movies about giant monsters have a legacy of being talkier than expected, and I’m usually willing to go along with them because there’s a purpose behind the long segments of bureaucratic nonsense in films like “Shin Godzilla” or even the forced POV of a movie like “Monsters.” And it’s understandable, even with the open wallets of…
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10 cranberry sauce recipes for every Thanksgiving table
Sweet, tart or spicy, we have cranberry sauce recipes for every taste and table.