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Arts
This Jazz Legend Is His Own Work in Progress
The private musings of Sonny Rollins reveal an artist devoted to the rigors of self-improvement.
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Style
Two Artists Make a Home for Their Family, and Their Collection
Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian have transformed their New York townhouse into a showplace for creativity.
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Style
A Filmmaker Needed a Quiet Place to Write. Where Better Than a Tuscan Villa?
TWO YEARS AGO, the Spanish filmmaker Albert Moya came to Florence to visit an artist friend who’d unwittingly become the…
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Arts
Gossip Dance Back Into Action After a 12-Year Pause
The trio fronted by Beth Ditto wasn’t sure it would return after scattering in different directions. But music united them…
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News
Byron Janis, Pianist of Romantic Passion, Dies at 95
He had a brilliant career before arthritis in his hands forced him from the stage, but he overcame the condition…
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News
Margaret Grade, Whose California Inn Was Beloved by Stars, Dies at 72
Her Manka’s Inverness Lodge drew actors and writers who dined at Ms. Grade’s farm-to-table restaurant and reveled in her eccentric…
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Arts
Crafting a Universe in Clay
The ceramic artist Toshiko Takaezu is getting a posthumous reappraisal, thanks to her devoted acolytes — and major shows highlighting…
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World
The Foreign Language That Changed My Teenage Son’s Life
Even as a little kid, my son Max had a way of immersing himself in the subjects he cared about.…
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World
Haitian Migrant in Massachusetts Is Charged With Raping a Teenager
The suspect and the 15-year-old were both living in a hotel that currently serves as a migrants shelter. The charge…
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World
Authorities Seize Alligator Being Held Illegally in Home Near Buffalo
The alligator, Albert Edward, had been with his owner for 34 years.