The Queens International is an art biennial distributed throughout the borough. Queens Museum assistant curator Sophia Marisa Lucas and her co-curator, artist Baseera Khan, joined forces to assemble 43 artists and collectives, from across 15 distinct neighborhoods, for the eighth edition. “Volumes” is co-hosted by select branches of the Queens Library,
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More than once, since Daniel Kaluuya broke out into the mainstream with Get Out, I have sat at my desk — or on the train, or in a movie theater, or stared aimlessly into my refrigerator — thinking “Daniel Joseph Kaluuya, in Jesus’s name!” I have it on good authority
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Outside the narrow Embajada gallery in a semi-industrial area of San Juan far from the vacationing tourists, a merry crowd gathered around Radio Red’s DJ Payola in her makeshift booth. Artists, gallerists, curators, and journalists holding beer cans shared thoughts after the second day of the MECA (Mercado Caribeño) Art
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The story of the first Thanksgiving is already steeped in myth, so why not jazz it up a little for the 2018 crowds? After all, there’s no point in staging a production of anything that doesn’t have a take on the current climate, even if the stars are kids. So
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The president did the whole annual turkey pardon thing today, a tradition that typically provides us with a mere distraction from the world’s darkness for even just the briefest of moments. That is, until Stephen Colbert breaks it to you that the turkeys the president pardoned last year are already
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Pusha T’s Tuesday night tour stop was nowhere other than Drake’s hometown of Toronto, and things went about as well as could be expected considering. The performance at the Danforth Music Hall was interrupted by an epic brawl that began when someone in the crowd threw something at the rapper
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Chandler is the man from the New Yorker short story “Cat Person,” and this episode is here to prove it. Incapable of empathizing? Check! Fond of diminishing women? Check! Massive solipsist? Ding-a-ling! Special interests include eating ice cream, feeling sorry for himself, and walking around slowly with mugs.We open with
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Thanksgiving is the perfect holiday to represent the Pearsons. It has that whole grateful thing going on, which takes care of the earnest side of This Is Us, but it is also a holiday in which you overindulge on both food and booze, sometimes causing you to let your guard
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The Conner family’s big news — the miracle teased in the episode title — is that Becky is pregnant. Since Becky was told by doctors during the reboot season of Roseanne that her chances of conceiving were around 5 percent (because she was too old and “pickled,” as per Darlene), her
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Though mostly twaddle as history, Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite is wonderful, nasty fun, a period drama (wigs, breeches, beauty spots) that holds the screen with gnashing teeth and slashing nails. At its center is a magnificent triumvirate of actresses. Olivia Colman plays Anne, the physically helpless, gouty, early-18th century queen
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The Cats movie has finally cast the sexy cat. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jason Derulo will make his feature film debut in the adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical as Rum Tum Tugger. In case you’re not familiar with the intricate plot of Cats, Rum Tum Tugger is
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In the new Vincent van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate, the artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel doesn’t merely want you to see the increasingly volatile van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) but to see what van Gogh sees and to feel the painter’s fever — his lust not just for life but
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Plenty of beloved TV comedies have great Thanksgiving episodes. The episode of Cheers that devolves into a food fight is an all-timer. Multiple Thanksgiving episodes of Friends are now considered holiday classics. The Simpsons’ “Bart vs. Thanksgiving” is as much of a must-watch every year, at least for me, as
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Last album cycle, Los Angeles singer, rapper, producer, and drummer Anderson .Paak set out to cross-pollinate two very different kinds of West Coast musicality, as he embraced the thick, heady textures of TDE-era L.A. hip-hop/soul on his 2016 breakthrough solo album Malibu, and then circled back with producer Knxwledge in
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Northern Exposure could be the next beloved TV classic to make a small-screen return. CBS is in the very early stages of development on a revival of the mid-1990s Joshua Brand and John Falsey–created dramedy, with series star Rob Morrow onboard to reprise his Emmy-nominated role as Dr. Joel Fleischman.
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It’s a Mad Max–style wasteland in Lego world this time around, but Emmet is still feeling pretty fine. In the first trailer for The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, Elizabeth Banks’s Wyldstyle and various other Lego friends get kidnapped by a space soldier named General Mayhem (Stephanie Beatriz), at
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Currently, this spring’s production of Kiss Me, Kate is the only musical revival announced for the 2019 Broadway season, but its stars Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase promise it won’t be the traditional restaging you expect. Clad in glamorous costumes from Lilli Vanessi and Fred Graham, the stars spoke with
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The cover for Some Rap Songs, the next full-length album from Earl Sweatshirt, is a photo of Earl himself, his face motion blurred, like someone slapped his hand down mid-selfie. The effect is startling: his teeth are suddenly piled on top of each other, like he has at least one
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“I’m a looser tongue than most.” Those were the first words picked up by my audio recording of my conversation with Sandi Tan as we sat down in a spare room at her publicist’s office. For those who have seen Shirkers, her stunning Netflix documentary about her lost would-be punk
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Disney’s 2012 animated movie Wreck-It Ralph turned the story of a vintage-video-game villain who decides he wants more out of life into a strangely moving story of existential yearning. Six years after getting Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) to the other side of his identity crisis via his unexpected
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