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Caleb Carr, author of ‘The Alienist,’ dies at 68
NEW YORK (AP) — Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and…
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Director of Learning & Community Engagement – Manhattan Theatre Club
The Director of Learning and Community Engagement will be an innovative thought leader, strong collaborator, and skillful public advocate, with a fervent commitment to community engagement and relationship development. In addition to…
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OpenAI and Wall Street Journal owner News Corp sign content deal | Artificial intelligence (AI)
ChatGPT developer OpenAI has signed a deal to bring news content from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Times and the Sunday Times to the artificial intelligence platform, the companies said on Wednesday. Neither party…
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Stolen €5m Francis Bacon painting recovered by police in Spain
Spanish police have recovered a painting by the late artist Francis Bacon that was stolen from a banker's Madrid home in 2015.The €5m (£4.2m; $5.4m) work is one of five portraits of the banker, José Capelo, who was a friend of the!-->…
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Brooke Shields Elected Equity President
by Philip Boroff
Celebrity prevailed over experience at…
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‘Super Size Me’ Director Was 53
Morgan Spurlock, a documentary filmmaker who captured his own psychological and physical symptoms from eating McDonald’s every day for a month in the Oscar-nominated 2004 feature “Super Size Me,” died Thursday in upstate New York due…
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Bringing ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ to the Screen Took Decades—Here’s Why
The label has proven impossible to dodge. “I write realism,” the novelist Guadalupe Nettel tells me on the phone from Mexico City. One of her short stories is about a family that eats insects to reverse a curse, so reviewers refer to her…
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Egypt is building a $1-billion mega-museum. Will it bring Egyptology home?
Researchers in Egypt say the opening of the museum needs to be accompanied by a plan to return artefacts to the nation, including archive materials. Although laws against the export of antiquities have existed in…
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What the Ticketmaster antitrust lawsuit means for ticket prices, fees
The U.S. government is suing to break up Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, arguing that the sheer size and market domination of the largest live-entertainment company is to blame for an era of rising concert prices,…
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How Stereophonic Became the Most Tony-Nominated Play in History
David Adjmi did not intend to re-enter the world of theater.
With a handful of credits under his belt, Adjmi had sworn off playwriting after a high-stakes collaboration fell apart. Then, as he sought to fulfill one…
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