“Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” arguably the finest work in August Wilson’s 10-play series chronicling the African American experience in the 20th century, is set in a boarding house in …
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Under Trump, ticket sales plummet for Kennedy Center performances
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesPresident Trump’s favorite musical is, famously, “Les Misérables,” but few fans have been storming the barricades to get into the Kennedy Center this season. The Washington Post reports that sales …
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Jesse Einsenberg donates kidney to a stranger: ‘No-brainer’
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis Jones“Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” star Jesse Eisenberg may soon one-up the film franchise’s Robin Hood-esque Four Horsemen in the giving-back department. This December, the Academy Award nominee …
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‘Dracula’ review: Radu Jude returns with a three-hour, skit-laden satire.
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesAs attention spans keep getting whittled down, intellectually impish Romanian satirist Radu Jude continues to go longer and longer, his latest act of cinematic disobedience the nearly three-hour mythbuster “Dracula.” …
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‘Bread of Angels’ review: Patti Smith’s new memoir is mesmerizing
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesBook Review Bread of Angels By Patti Smith Random House: 288 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose …
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ESPN, Disney channels blacked out on YouTube TV in contract dispute
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesMore than 10 million YouTube TV customers lost access to ESPN, ABC and other Walt Disney Co. channels after contract talks broke down Thursday night in one of the largest …
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‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ to get a Switch 2 upgrade, free update
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesIt’s time to resume your island getaway — and possibly incur more virtual debt. (We see you, Tom Nook.) Nintendo announced Thursday that its cozy social sim “Animal Crossing: New …
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‘Back to the Future’ revisited: Four decades later, it feels even more on time
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis Jones“Back to the Future” deserves to be endlessly rewound. Shot for shot, line for line, it’s the modern era’s zippiest comedy about the collapse of the American dream, with a …
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‘I Love L.A.’ review: Gen Z is desperate, difficult but very watchable
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesUnto every generation, and fraction thereof, a sitcom is born, in which the young people of the moment state their case, self-mockingly. FX recently gave us a State of New …
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Hollywood producer receives nearly 150 years for two deaths, rapes
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesAn L.A. County Superior Court judge handed a 146-year sentence to Hollywood producer David Brian Pearce on Wednesday for multiple rapes and the 2021 deaths of a model and her …