3 days ago | NY Times

“Tangled Up in Blue,” by Rosa Brooks, and “We Own This City,” by Justin Fenton, take readers inside two police forces to examine a complicated culture.
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Write for Rights: An Illustrated Campaign for Amnesty International Aims to Free People Who Are Imprisoned

8 days ago | Colossal

“Writing Carries Their Voice” (2020). All images © Amnesty International, shared with permission A new campaign for Amnesty International exemplifies the power of the pencil in...
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‘Palmer' Review: A Crisis of Masculinity

28 days ago | NY Times

Justin Timberlake stars as an ex-convict who interrogates his gender biases after he comes to care for a young boy in this prosaic melodrama.
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"Our lives no longer feel ground under them"

1 month ago | Bitter Grace Notes

Osip Mandelstam was born on January 15, 1891 and died in December, 1938, essentially killed by his satirical poem known as "The Stalin Epigram." Mandelstam defiantly recited it...
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Some things never change

1 month ago | Bitter Grace Notes

You poor malign narcissist I fear you and pity you I am determined to escape you I cannot allow you to destroy my sanity, my career, my capacity of service, my decency I am in...
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Phil Spector: Hear 15 Essential Songs

1 month ago | NY Times

He was convicted of murder and died an inmate in California, but the producer's work in the early 1960s is an inextricable part of pop music history.
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How Martin Luther King Jr.'s Imprisonment Changed American Politics Forever

1 month ago | NY Times

Stephen and Paul Kendrick's “Nine Days” recounts a brief episode of the civil rights movement that had a surprisingly lasting impact.
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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times

1 month ago | Chez Namaste Nancy

The Best of Times, The Worst of Times Allow me to paraphrase Viktor Frankl, the holocaust survivor: “We can take any what if we know why.” Well, now some of us know the...
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Scammer ‘Con Queen of Hollywood' Who Targeted Photographers Finally Caught

2 monthes ago | Peta Pixel

The mastermind of an incredibly elaborate international scam that targeted photographers and other creatives has been apprehended. Described as a “crazy evil genius,” the...
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John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father by Peggy Noonan - UPDATED

2 monthes ago | Happy Catholic

I'm rereading this book which has inadvertently turned into Advent reading. I'd forgotten just how good it is - inspirational, informative, and, above all, a wonderful reminder...
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Emma Elliott presents new marble sculptures at on form 18

Emma Elliott is one of forty sculptors selected for on form 18, a biennial exhibition of sculpture in stone at Asthall Manor in the Cotswolds. She joins world renowned and... Read more ...

Market Street: 1947

"San Francisco 1947" is the notation on this latest Kodachrome from Don Cox. Who, given the choice of shooting pedestrians or running them over, chooses the former. View full size. Read more ...

Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting "Westerly Wind" by...

24"x30"x1.5" Oil on Canvas Available HERE for purchase info. Visit to Read more ...

Amazon Moves From Film Industry's Margins to the Mainstream

With several films competing for Golden Globes on Sunday and a number of high-priced movies coming this year, the streaming service has altered its reputation in Hollywood. Read more ...

Bamboo House / BL Studio de Arquitetura

Rolândia, Estado de Paraná, 86600-000, Brazil Project Year: 2020 Photographs: Fellipe Lima Area: 800.0 m2 Read more ...

2021 Golden Globes Predictions: Will ‘Borat' Be the Big Winner?

Sacha Baron Cohen and his news-making movie could sweep the comedy categories. In drama, “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Nomadland” will battle it out. Read more ...

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