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How to step up self-care over the holidays
While some find annual celebrations wonderful, studies show that for many Americans, they can be stressful, isolating and depressing –...
“Pluribus” is a fascinating Rorschach test
With “Pluribus,” Vince Gilligan has what most series creators would envy: a show that generates constantly evolving conversation. Those who...
The cost of being the “exceptional” disabled person
A disabled figure it took years for me to embrace is the title character of Tim Burton’s dark, modern fairy...
At last, a Yoko Ono retrospective free of The Beatles blame game
The first large image you see when entering the first gallery of “Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind,” the massive...
We outgrew “Stranger Things” years ago
Something incredible happens in the five-minute preview of the “Stranger Things” finale season — maybe not by the standards of...
“Sentimental Value” is the Thanksgiving film for the fractured family
For as tender and quietly introspective as Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” eventually becomes, the Norwegian writer-director’s latest film opens in...
Work is “optional” and irrelevant money: Musk’s creepy utopian dream
A world without money sounds utopian—until you realize what happens when we stop working, stop moving, and let the machines...
Inside The Beatles’ rise
When it comes to the superlative, time-eclipsing musical achievements of The Beatles, technological innovation has been there every step of...
“Wicked: For Good” sinks under its greed
In March 2008, Warner Bros. announced that the final film adaptation in the world-dominating “Harry Potter” franchise, “Harry Potter and...
Legacy media enabled Jeffrey Epstein
The release last week of 20,000 pages of emails between Jeffrey Epstein and a high-profile collection of friends and associates...
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