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Tanker in Yemen Is Emptied of Oil, Averting Catastrophic Spill
More than a million barrels of oil on a tanker off the coast of Yemen were transferred to another ship bought by the United Nations. But now a new hurdle looms: Who owns the recovered oil?
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Keep These People Alive: David Grann on Killers of the Flower Moon
As the film world ardently awaits the opening of Martin Scorsese‘s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which screened at the Cannes Film Festival, my anticipation is sky-high, as I’ve been following the film’s journey since 2017 upon Scorsese’s acquirement of the book rights to Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth…
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Made in Heaven Returns with a Stunning Second Season
Warning: This review includes mentions of sexual assault and domestic violence. It is more than a little difficult to review a series that may be completely unknown to the audience of this publication, because there is no way to discuss this terrific series’ second season without revealing major spoilers from its first. (Consider reading my…
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Ridiculously Imaginative, Grounded, and Poetic: Director Marc Turtletaub on Jules
“Jules” is a new film from CEO (The Money Store) turned producer (“The Farewell,” “Little Miss Sunshine”) and director (“Puzzle”) Marc Turtletaub. It is an endearingly gentle fable about an elderly man (Sir Ben Kingsley) in a small Pennsylvania town who discovers an alien spaceship in his backyard. Like E.T., the small blue creature inside…
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Fantasia 2023: Lovely, Dark, and Deep, Where the Devil Roams, With Love and a Major Organ
Georgina Campbell had a landmark moment in horror history when she starred in last year’s “Barbarian,” offering a surrogate we could deeply worry about as her AirBnb experience fell apart, one secret after another. She brings much of the same intensity to writer/director Teresa Sutherland’s debut “Lovely, Dark, and Deep,” a feverish horror movie mostly…
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter
As those of you with a decent grasp of horror trivia already know, the Demeter was the ship whose ultimately doomed journey to deliver some especially dangerous cargo from Transylvania to London was chronicled in the seventh chapter of the Bram Stoker classic Dracula. Although this section, running 16 pages in my copy, contains some…
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What Makes Penne Alla Vodka So Delicious? It’s All in the Sauce.
The exact origin story of vodka sauce is uncertain, but its legacy is bold, spicy and ubiquitous.
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Strangers pitch in as people in Maui search for displaced pets
“The community has just stepped up like crazy,” said Katie Shannon of the Maui Humane Society. “It brought the majority of our staff to tears.”
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Carmen Xtravaganza’s impossible beauty
Ballroom pioneer Carmen Xtravaganza, who died last week at age 62, opened up a world of possibilities for transwomen.
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Fox executive who oversaw Dominion case to leave
Viet D. Dinh, who has led Fox News’s handling of several recent lawsuit, will step down as the company’s chief legal and policy officer at the end of the year.