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Top Picks: 'On Chesil Beach,' 'The Age of Napoleon' podcast'Jurassic Park' returns to theaters, the hosts of the podcast 'Dis-Order' are reviewing every Disney animated film, and more top picks.
Compassion keeps knockingOur front door seems far too accessible in this African city.
Native American veterans get spotlight with upcoming memorialThere has not historically been a landmark honoring the contributions of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians who have served in the military. That will change with the National Native American Veterans Memorial.
'Pick of the Litter' avoids specifics but is fairly enjoyableThe documentary follows five Labrador siblings born into a litter for special training for the Guide Dogs for the Blind organization.
#MeToo pervades Toronto film festTopical documentaries and a fourth version of ‘A Star is Born’ stand out.
‘The Apparition’ focuses on issues of faith, truthIn writer-director Xavier Giannoli's film, a young woman in France claims to have been visited by the Virgin Mary.
Top Picks: The movie 'The Guardians,' the podcast 'My Indian Life,' and more top picksThe hills will be alive when 'The Sound of Music' returns to movie theaters on Sept. 12 through Fathom Events, the app Splitwise is great to have on a trip with friends or for shared expenses like rent or utilities, and more top picks.
What are you watching? Readers recommend 'Treme,' 'The Expanse'Monitor TV and movie fans share what they've been watching lately.
In a WordHow many ways to say ‘This stinks’?When tested, most people can name only about 50 percent of even familiar aromas such as coffee, cinnamon, and garlic. But we do know when something stinks. For bad smells, we have a fairly rich, if nonspecific, vocabulary.
Tossing what the clutter elves snuck inI felt like Daniel Boone taming a vast wilderness – my overstuffed basement.
Are singers or songs most important for a tour?When iconic frontmen (or frontwomen) are replaced, are they still the same bands? More important, will fans remain loyal and keep buying tickets?
‘The Bookshop’ evokes nostalgia for all things literaryFlorence Green (Emily Mortimer) loves books and decides to convert the run-down home she owns and occupies into a bookshop, the only one within many miles.
Four August movies we think you should seeSome of Monitor critic Peter Rainer's favorite selections to be released in August were 'What Will People Say' and 'The Bookshop.'
Top Picks: 'Brave Little State' podcast, the Evernote app, and moreThe movie 'Tully' is available on DVD and Blu-ray and stars Charlize Theron as harried mother Marlo, the Smithsonian National Postal Museum is exploring Alexander Hamilton's life with an online exhibit, and more top picks.
What are you watching? Readers recommend 'Ethel & Ernest,' 'The Wonder Years'Monitor TV and movie fans share what they've been watching lately.
In a WordRemembrance of all things smellyIt is surprisingly hard for English-speakers to describe the odors that occasion strong emotions. English possesses almost no abstract smell words that pick out links or themes among unrelated aromas.
Sounds of summer: Boston street musiciansA photo gallery of 'buskers' who fill popular spots around the city with rhythm and harmony.
Finding the everyday in the exoticTo travel is to encounter the unfamiliar and strange. But not always.
Here's what's being done to get women equitable radio play in country musicTodd Cassetty, a media executive and founder of Song Suffragettes, thinks the secret to solving this problem is with the fans: If they demand to hear more female artists, radio stations will respond. 'The crux of the issue is that women do not have the same opportunities to be heard that men do in country music,' Cassetty says.
Rom-com 'Juliet Naked' is indeed romantic and comedicThe adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel is sweet and unprepossessing.
