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Marian Anderson’s Ambition Was Always Clear: To Be a ‘Fine Artist’
Anderson’s importance as a barrier breaker in classical music has sometimes overshadowed the power of her artistry.
Denée Benton Wants to Come Back as ‘a Detached, Chaotic Gemini’
“I feel like that’s what Steve Lacy gives,” the “Gilded Age” actor says. She’s a fan of his new album, as well as Zora Neale Hurston and nude beaches.
Can Art Revitalize a Small Mountain Town in North Carolina?
In North Carolina’s Lost Provinces, residents see the arts as a pathway to sustainability and maintaining community.
‘Bold, brilliant, thrilling’: leading authors on the novels every school should teach
A new term, a new PM … time for a new English curriculum? We ask writers from Ben Okri to Samantha Harvey to pick books that will inspire a lifelong love of reading For the first
Beauty Marks: The Best Beauty Looks of the Week
From Mary Beth Barone at Venice Film Festival to Doechii at Daisy Chain Fields Festival, these are the best beauty looks of the week.
40 years later, 'The Baby-Sitters Club' is still helping readers see themselves
Ann M. Martin's beloved series has influenced generations of readers. We're still asking: Which babysitter are you?
If you prefer puzzles to doomscrolling, here are 5 great games to check out
NPR's Linda Holmes is a daily puzzle devotee. She recommends games that will test your knowledge of geography, history, and even the most obscure corners of Wikipedia.
Colin from Accounts: a show so fearless and hilarious that I want to get a tattoo of it
It’s deliciously satirical, fizzes with electric chemistry – and it’s snortingly funny too. If you haven’t watched the worst named show on TV yet, do so
TV tonight: Gary Lineker makes Z-listers do silly things for his new show
Joey Essex and John Bercow are unlikely team mates in The Box. Plus, the inside story of Saturday Night Live. Here’s what to watch this evening 8.15pm, ITV1 Continue reading...
From Nish Kumar to the Bayeux tapestry: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Our premier political comedian heads out on tour, while the 70-metre-long woven story of 1066 arrows its way to Britain for the first time Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex
A Long Winter review – hope, desire and subversion in Andrew Haigh’s beautiful winter western
Telluride film festival In a remote Colorado farmstead, a family with a mother gone missing finds a strange buoyancy and freedom as they wait for the snows to melt Andrew Haigh’s
Tender Loving Care review – Mike Leigh’s tender and elusive study of love and mortality
Telluride film festival Alice Bailey Johnson and Kate O’Flynn lead a complicated, quietly heartbreaking drama about friendship
How Gloria Steinem’s lifechanging stay in India shaped her approach to feminism
The activist said her two years studying and travelling in country ‘made me who I am’ ‘We badly need to raise our boys more like our girls’: Gloria Steinem – a life in quotes
The rise of south-east Asia’s girl bands: ‘The talent and popularity were always here’
Girl bands from the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand are going global with their fusion of traditional and modern sounds “We all know that music is a universal
Ambassador Who Removed Kehinde Wiley Work Described It as a Lesbian Picnic
Trump officials recently removed a painting from the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic without explaining why. An interview by Ambassador Leah Campos shed some light.
On Emma Prempeh’s Canvases, Countries Collide
The artist Emma Prempeh discusses her multifaceted sense of home and the freedom she’s found with a brush.
Musician Sara Bareilles talks about the importance of crying in her life
On Wild Card, famous guests answer questions that we don't always talk about. Musician Sara Bareilles talks about the importance of crying in her life.
A stranger helped a mother and son stuck in a current in Lake Michigan
A mother was caught in a current while saving her son in Lake Michigan. When she couldn't get them closer to shore, a man appeared to help.
New book traces the pieces of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Sam Holleran, one of the authors behind the new book Scattered Steel: the afterlife of the World Trade Center .
At Minnesota's state fair, crop artists depict the struggle over immigration enforcement
Nearly 600 artists submitted crop art at the Minnesota State Fair. Using seeds from Minnesota grown crops, many artists created scenes inspired by Operation Metro Surge.
Inside Finneas and Claudia Sulewski’s Romantic Garden Wedding in Montecito
The musician married the beauty founder at a star-studded wedding on a California estate—in a ceremony officiated by the groom’s sister, Billie Eilish.
The week around the world in 20 pictures
The Nepal-Tibet flood disaster, Russian strikes in Kyiv, the Plaskett Fire in California and Notting Hill carnival – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading
Vittoria Ceretti Has a Bedazzled New Take on Naked Dressing
Stepping out for the “Wild Horse Nine” premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Vittoria Ceretti wore a sheer, delicately embellished Armani gown.
Dandies, docs and robbers: Richard O’Sullivan – a life in pictures
The actor had roles in Cleopatra and Doctor in Charge before becoming a household name as Dick Turpin and Robin Tripp in Man About the House Richard O’Sullivan dies aged 82
In Battle to Use ‘Ms.,’ Gloria Steinem Had to Fight The New York Times
In the 1970s, Ms. Steinem confronted the newspaper’s executive editor about the honorific in an exchange of letters, pressing it to use the alternative to Miss or Mrs.
Sex symbol in a 70s tank top: how Richard O’Sullivan blazed a trail for funny, frisky, cheeky chappies
The star of Man About the House scored an unprecedented run of hit series during the 70s and 80s
Trump's arch may break ground without final approval. Veterans are trying to stop it
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says "excavation work" will begin in the next two weeks, without approval from a key federal body
‘Facing El Chapo’ and More Action Movies to Stream Now
This month’s picks include a high-stakes El Chapo drama, and films starring Jason Statham, Alan Ritchson, Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa.
Bringing Explosive Life to ‘Coyote vs. Acme’
The director Dave Green narrates a scene from the film in which a perturbed Wile E. Coyote lawyers up.