What’s Going On: Marvin Gaye’s Singular Vision for a Classic Album
This week in 1971, the album What's Going On by Marvin Gaye was released by Tamla Records, a subsidiary of Motown....
This Week in History: Bonnie and Clyde Die as Criminals, Live on as Heroes
On May 23, 1934, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were gunned down by two squads of state police while cruising through...
In the documentary "Stories We Tell," director and actress Sarah Polley discovers that what she thought she knew about her mother, an actress who died when Polley was eleven, has only a glancing relationship with the truth.
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In A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home, writer Sue Halpern describes what happens when she decides to train her Labradoodle, Pransky, as a therapy dog, and take him into a public nursing home to work with the elderly residents. For more adventures in canine companionship, check out these books.
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On May 16, 1929, in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, a tradition was born: the Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the previous years’ best films, directors, and actors. Those early years of experiment and excess generated some of the all-time great life stories; here are our picks for...
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M.E. Thomas is the author behind Confessions of a Sociopath, a psychological study of diagnosed sociopaths by none other than a diagnosed sociopath. Here she presents us with five commonly held misconceptions of what sociopathy is about, and she proceeds to debunk each myth
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Phillip Lopate, who began as a novelist and poet, has grown into the foremost American source of perspective and wisdom on the subject of autobiographical writing. Earlier this year, Lopate published To Show and To Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction, a conversational guide incorporating the tips and...
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