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Niger Coup: Here’s What to Know
Amid an unpredictable military coup, neighboring countries have threatened to go to war — some to scuttle the coup, and others to ensure its success.
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14 Injured in Stabbing and Car Rampage Near Seoul
Less than a month after another mass stabbing, 13 victims were sent to the hospital in a similar incident that also included five people being hit by a car. The episode is being treated as a “terrorist act.”
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Satchmo’s Wonderful World: Louis Armstrong Center Amplifies An Artist’s Vision
New jazz and exhibition spaces, and an inaugural show curated by Jason Moran, feature the trumpeter’s history, collaged onto the walls.
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Blaise Cendrars’s Eye-Opening Artist’s Book at the Morgan
A travelogue in verse, rich with Sonia Delaunay’s art pyrotechnics, is the centerpiece of one of the most eye-opening shows of the summer.
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Oscar-winner Spike Lee to Receive the 2023 TIFF Ebert Director Award on Sunday, September 10th
At this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (“TIFF”), RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert and TIFF Director Cameron Bailey will be presenting the TIFF Ebert Director Award to Academy Award-winning director Spike Lee during the in-person TIFF Tribute Awards gala on Sunday, September 10th, at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto. Named after legendary film critic Roger Ebert, the…
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Fantasia 2023: River, The Becomers, Aporia
One of my greatest festival discoveries in the years I have covered Fantasia online and in person was Junta Yamaguchi’s “Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes,” a time-traveling, screen-within-a-screen-within-a-screen odyssey set in more or less one location, made to look like one shot. It’s the kind of work by a filmmaker that instantly makes you a…
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Passages
Ira Sachs is one of American cinema’s most reliable crafters of human-scaled cinematic dramas. That description doesn’t sound too terribly exciting, so I should assure you that “Passages” is some kind of time at the movies—a briskly-moving, turbulent, emphatically sexy, deliberately exasperating love triangle in crazy times. The times in this movie (which Sachs co-wrote…
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S3 Ep146: Tell us about that breach! (If you want to.)
Serious security stories explained clearly in plain English – listen now. (Full transcript available.)
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Enslaved Black People in Maryland Linked to 42,000 Living Relatives
The analysis marks the first time historical DNA has been used to trace the descendants and distant cousins of enslaved people, researchers said.
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LK-99 Is the Ambient Superconductor of the Summer
Social media users are excited about what would be a breakthrough in solid state physics, but many experts in the field are cautiously skeptical.