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A Photographer Frames His Own American South
Tommy Kha’s portraits blend his Asian heritage with the mythology of the South.
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Why Is a Day Job Seen as the Mark of an Artist’s Failure?
A group show at the Blanton Museum of Art breaks the taboo on artists discussing, and drawing on, their day jobs. Yet this stigma still exists.
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Champions
“If I can’t say the R-word, what do I call them?” asks Marcus (Woody Harrelson), a disgraced minor-league basketball coach sentenced to 90 days of community service coaching the Friends, a team whose players have intellectual disabilities. “Their names,” the judge replies. Based on the 2018 Spanish film “Campeones,” Bobby Farrelly’s “Champions” follows the basic…
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A Well-Executed Combination of Humor and Vulnerability and Emotion: Kaitlin Olson on Champions
In “Champions,” Kaitlin Olson plays Alex, the sister of a young man with Down Syndrome. Woody Harrelson plays Marcus, a temperamental basketball coach sentenced to work with the team. Alex is not nearly as messy as Olson’s best-known roles: on “Hacks,” struggling with dysfunction and substance abuse as the daughter of Jean Smart’s Las Vegas…
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Malibu’s Most Wanted at 20: Black Culture as Food For All
The singularity of Black culture originates from a distinct seed—the community built from collective disenfranchisement in a foreign land and the reclamation of identity lost to ancestral erasure. The forced isolation of Black Americans birthed a unique culture within a shared country. It was one that the white majority did not and could not try…
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Tracy’s McMillan’s UnPrisoned Uses Humor to Tell Truth
“UnPrisoned,” the Hulu comedy starring Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo, is based on creator Tracy McMillan’s own experience as a woman confronting old wounds when her father is released after 17 years in prison. That premise may sound about as funny as “The Wire,” but “UnPrisoned” is a true comedy even as it deals with…
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The Power of Lashana Lynch
Lashana Lynch stands tall as one of the most dynamic performers of her time. Her roles have embodied that of a soldier, superhero, action hero, teacher, track star, and more. Lynch’s natural talent is not easy to come by, but she has been comfortable in her discipline since her debut performance in 2012’s “Fast Girls.” In…
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5 big takeaways from the Dominion-Fox News document dump
Fox News is a corrupt media organization, and each batch of internal correspondence that emerges from the Dominion defamation suit deepens the reality.
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Ex has ‘creepy’ interest in my life. Carolyn Hax readers give advice.
Carolyn Hax readers advise someone whose ex-boyfriend of two years has “an unhealthy level of interest in my life.”
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The fear and fury of these Florida parents
The state has introduced new laws that affect nearly every stage of parenting. Some families are choosing between fight and flight.