Art and Culture

Your browser does not support the audio element.Oregon Ballet Theatre saw 92,000 people attend its performances this year. The Portland dance company has never had that many people go to its shows.Shane Jewell is the executive director…
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Librarian Sabrina Jesram arranges a display of books during Banned Books Week at a public library branch in New…
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I was 22 the first time I went to the McKittrick Hotel. I was 22 the second time I went, and the third, too; by the time my 24th birthday rolled around, I had spent almost every spare weekend there. The McKittrick Hotel…
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Inside the gold-dragon-adorned walls of Chef Chu’s restaurant in the heart of Silicon Valley, a group of prominent Asian venture capitalists and tech executives gathered over Peking duck and garlic noodles.They came at the behest of…
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Fran Drescher may have been “The Nanny” in another life. But as the president of SAG-AFTRA, she turned the tables on Hollywood’s power crowd.Drescher last year emerged as an unlikely labor leader and champion of the little guy. Best…
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Legendary actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke has made history, winning the 2024 Daytime Emmy award for guest performer in a daytime drama series — via his spot on Peacock’s “Days of Our Lives.” At 98, that makes Van Dyke the oldest actor…
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One of the most critically acclaimed TV shows of the 2020s has yet to win the industry’s biggest award. What’s going on?…
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Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to ListenFor decades, Elin Hilderbrand’s name has been synonymous with summer reading. Her novels set among the misbehaving moneyed class on Nantucket Island juggle romance and crime and a…
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Lorrie Moore, 67, is one of America’s most original, agile and diverting authors – a short story writer, novelist, critic and essayist. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, her fourth novel, is possessed of a feral magic and is a…
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Illustration by Jennifer Pearson, inspired by a photo from True Colors Theatre. Last year, the U.S. Surgeon General released an advisory declaring loneliness a public health epidemic. “Given the significant health consequences…
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