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Community building: Chicago experiment links libraries and apartmentsCities are thinking in new ways about how to use urban space and create opportunities for interaction. In Chicago, a pairing of affordable housing and libraries could affect relations across race and class.
The amazing raceIt demands stamina, agility, quick thinking, grace – but the payoff is huge.
King Tut on exhibit as views of antiquities evolveThe exhibition embarks on a tour during a time when views among the public seem to have been changing about the true ownership of ancient artifacts that were taken from the countries where they were discovered.
In ‘The Guilty,’ a police dispatcher races against timeThe movie is Denmark’s entry for the Oscar for best foreign language film.
'The Kindergarten Teacher' is worth seeing for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s performanceIn the film, Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Lisa Spinelli, a teacher who is at first intrigued, then entranced, and finally obsessed by 5-year-old Jimmy, a pupil with a prodigious gift for writing poetry.
Top Picks: The Plantsnap app, 'The Good Cop' on NetflixThe Broadway show 'Wicked' is celebrating its 15th anniversary on Broadway with 'A Very Wicked Halloween' on NBC, the movie 'First Reformed' stars Ethan Hawke as a pastor who struggles with what to do after hearing about a radical environmentalist and his views, and more top picks.
What are you watching? Readers recommend 'Black Panther,' 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'Monitor TV and movie fans share what they've been watching lately.
In a WordCenturies of fighting over the apostropheWe now have a rough consensus that an apostrophe signals the possessive and a plain s the plural, although there is still debate about a few points.
Wireless communication of a different sortOut of necessity, my 21st-century teen tries his hand at an antique medium.
Will networks continue to show interest in adapting web series by people of color?As web creators continue to tell authentic, compelling stories about what it is like to live as a person of color, will networks continue to demonstrate interest in adapting their stories, particularly as consumers demonstrate their interest in more diverse programs?
How new murals on old walls are energizing an Italian town'Overtourism' may vex venerated art cities like Rome and Venice. But for a village where population decline is the more common Italian challenge, new works by visiting artists are drawing welcome visitors.
From moccasins to Louboutins: an evolution of indigenous artAmerican Indian art encompasses more than dream catchers, totem poles, and basketry. The art world is waking up to a new appreciation for contemporary Native art – and the artists behind it.
Neil Armstrong gets the spotlight in the biopic ‘First Man’As Ryan Gosling plays him, Armstrong is not so much strong and silent as glazed-over.
Repetitive 'Beautiful Boy' still has beautiful momentsThe film, which stars Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet, is overlong and riddled with unneeded flashbacks showing the family in better times.
Top Picks: 'Ocean's 8,' 'Quincy'The app Nextdoor is a great (and private) way to be in touch with people who live close by, researchers from the long-running British quiz show 'QI' are sharing other interesting facts on the podcast 'No Such Thing as a Fish,' and more top picks.
What are you watching? Readers recommend 'Michael Palin in North Korea,' 'Stalag 17'Monitor TV and movie fans share what they've been watching lately.
In a WordThe (impossible?) dream of a universal languageOver the centuries, a surprising number of theologians and linguists have tried to 'reverse Babel' and create universally intelligible languages.
What are you watching? Readers recommend 'Solaris,' 'Chesapeake Shores'Monitor TV and movie fans share what they've been watching lately.
Top Picks: 'Both Sides Now,' 'To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before'College students can get rewards for leaving their phones alone during class when they use the Pocket Points app, the documentary 'Won’t You Be My Neighbor?' looks at the career of Fred Rogers and his creation of the show 'Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,' and more top picks.
There are birds, and then there’s NoodleMy new project is to get to know my garden’s avian regulars as individuals.
