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Before I was a friend and colleague, I was a fan.In my early and mid-teens in the 1970s, I was a loner jock/pop culture nerd who was obsessed with these pursuits:Playing and watching baseball and football and to a...

In a career retrospective talk at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, Mamoru Oshii spoke, if not regretfully, mournfully about “Angel’s Egg.” The legendary Japanese writer and director—who secured his place in animation history with “Ghost in the Shell”—said...

Everyone knows the rule when flying: In the case of a loss of cabin pressure, put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others. In other parts of life, this principle is less accepted—especially for mothers, for whom the...

With The Great Swirling Apparatus of Our Planet's Function, Welcome to Derry is halfway into its first season, keeping up the pace with harrowing manifestations of the Creature, and some revelations that contribute to the worldbuilding.Starting right where the...

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Landman is back, and so are we, which means it’s time to settle back into the familiar chaos that only the Norris family can deliver. It’s been a year since we last checked in with Tommy, Angela, Cooper, Cami, and...

A private art collector said they paid a furniture restorer $1,350 to clean up a copy of a 17th-century artwork by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.Public Domain/Private Collection/Europa Press 2020The Virgin Mary figure on a copy of a 17th century painting...

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Welcome to your Sunday edition of Today in Books. Here are the stories Today in Books readers were most interested in this week.Amazon’s Best Books of the YearIn a year without a novel like James owning headlines and bestseller lists, the...

Claim: The founder of The Hershey Chocolate Company, Milton Hershey, founded a boarding school for orphaned boys. Rating: Rumors circulating online in October 2025 purported that Milton Hershey, a wealthy businessman and noted philanthropist best known for founding The Hershey Chocolate Company...