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Baltimore Museum of Art Taps Its Chief Curator as Its Next Director
Asma Naeem, raised in Baltimore, will lead the city’s pre-eminent art museum as it faces unionization and equity efforts.
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Sundance 2023: Joonam, A Still Small Voice, Bad Press
Three documentaries in this year’s U.S. Documentary Competition follow women through enormous personal journeys. In Sierra Urich’s “Joonam,” the director explores her place in the Persian diaspora through conversations with her mother and grandmother. In Luke Lorentze’s “A Still Small Voice,” a chaplain in training named Mati experiences spiritual burnout while completing her residency at…
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Sundance 2023: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, Fancy Dance, The Starling Girl
The U.S. Dramatic Competition portion of this year’s Sundance program has been considered a little thin, and people seem uncertain on what’s going to win the Grand Jury prize in what feels like a wide-open race. I haven’t seen all of the films in the program, but I think Raven Jackson’s “All Dirt Roads Taste…
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10 Major Snubs and Surprises from the 2023 Oscar Nominations
Happy Oscar morning! As usual, the Oscar nominations bring numerous reasons to celebrate, yell, laugh, guffaw, and shake your damn head, and this morning is no different. The loudest gasps this morning were likely for Andrea Riseborough, who came from nowhere last month to launch an unstoppable Oscar campaign for her indie film “To Leslie”…
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#450 January 24, 2023
Matt writes: The 2023 Sundance Film Festival kicked off on January 19th and runs through Sunday, January 29th. Stay tuned each day for dispatches from our writers Brian Tallerico, Nick Allen, Robert Daniels and Marya E. Gates, who are reviewing the festival’s enticing selections such as Brandon Cronenberg’s hotly anticipated thriller, “Infinity Pool,” starring Mia…
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GoTo admits: Customer cloud backups stolen together with decryption key
We were going to write, “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more”… but it seems to go without saying these days.
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This code creates endless threads crashing the system
Java code Bash while true do for i in {1..100} do echo “Processing thread $i” /bin/bash & done done
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Restaurant Review: Masalawala & Sons, Where the Food Is Bengali and the Mustard Oil Flows
In Park Slope, the team behind several bold Indian restaurants dives deep into homespun village cooking, with electrifying results.
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Fine Dining and the Ethics of Noma’s Meticulously Crafted Fruit Beetle
Recent reports have spurred a backlash against the 1 percent of restaurants. What is the human cost of this type of eating, and will it last?
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Rupert Murdoch Backtracks on Plan to Merge Fox and News Corp
News Corp, one of his companies, said Rupert Murdoch had determined that a merger was “not optimal for shareholders of News Corp and Fox at this time.”