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They Carry a Cake Onstage, and Share Dumplings Off

Christiani Pitts and Sam Tutty, the two stars of the new musical Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), met for a blustery afternoon stroll as the show settled into its Broadway run. A sudden rainstorm swept through; Pitts said she noticed an older woman holding onto her bags,

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What Southern Red States Offer on Reading and Attendance

A ray of hope is emerging in American education, not from national politics or the stalled reform movement but from three Deep South states: Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. These states, long marked by child poverty, racism and low school spending, are registering surprising gains. Louisiana ranks No. 1 in recovery

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Supergirl Earns Strong Early Reactions as Lobo's Future Is Teased

Leaked reactions from a recent secret screening of Supergirl were mostly positive. Milly Alcock reprises the role she debuted in a cameo at the end of Superman, and the film is set for release on June 26, 2026. Viewers noted a shift in cinematography from Superman toward a darker look,

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Mewgenics fans acted out cringe-filled cat stunts for release contest

To celebrate the release of Mewgenics, developer Edmund McMillen invited fans to act like cats in public or in front of family and submit video proof. He framed the challenge bluntly: "The more we cringe the better you do," and added a safety note: "Dont fuck with

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Brad Pitt's Tarantino Sequel 'Cliff Booth' Unveils First Trailer

Brad Pitt and director David Fincher reunite to resurrect Cliff Booth in the first trailer for their quasi-sequel to Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Unfolding roughly eight years after that film, The Adventures of Cliff Booth does not yet have an official release date. Netflix

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10 TV Plot Twists So Sus They Almost Ruined the Show

Great television often stands out for character work and strong storytelling, but sometimes writers get a little too clever and derail what made a show special. This piece collects plot turns that felt out of step with their series and risked undoing the goodwill those shows had built. Some twists

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Netflix restricts access to polarizing film Blue Is the Warmest Color

Netflix has blocked Blue Is the Warmest Color for subscribers on its ad-supported tier, a restriction the streamer says stems mainly from rights-related issues. The film remains available to other viewers on the service. Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, the 180-minute drama follows a romance between two women played by Léa

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The Wedding During Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Real

Some viewers spent the second half of the Super Bowl focused on the Seattle Seahawks closing out a decisive victory over the New England Patriots. Others watched to see whether the couple who appeared in the wedding scene during Bad Bunny’s halftime show had actually married. Bad Bunny’s

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Hollywood Braces for New Round of Labor Talks

It has been 26 months since the writers’ and actors’ strikes ended, and the contracts that brought those walkouts to a close are nearing expiration — May 1 for writers and June 30 for actors. Negotiations with the studios begin on Monday, with numerous bargaining sessions expected in the weeks ahead.

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The Mandalorian and Grogu's Super Bowl trailer disappoints

In a few months The Mandalorian and Grogu will be leaving the small screen for theaters. Our first look since season 3 teased the return of the Razor Crest, new allies with the appearance of Sigourney Weaver, and epic cage fights, but not much else. The 36-second Super Bowl trailer

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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: Best and Worst Moments

A lot unfolded in 13 minutes on the Super Bowl field as Bad Bunny led a cast of musicians and dancers in the first halftime set performed nearly entirely in Spanish. The show drew from songs on his Grammy-winning album “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” included celebrity cameos and stunts, and

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Why Ryan Gosling’s Project Hail Mary Could Surprise Audiences

Project Hail Mary follows Ryland Grace, a middle school science teacher turned astronaut who must travel 11.9 light-years to try to save Earth from a global ice age. At an IMAX preview in Los Angeles, about 30 minutes of footage was shown and directors Christopher Miller and Phil Lord

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A stranger paid part of my teenage son's restaurant bill

Adolescence leaves its mark on everyone, and for my son the marks have been particularly obvious. I’ve lost track of how many casts he’s had. He loves electric bikes, which have led to broken arms, a broken hand, a broken leg, a wide variety of cuts and grazes,

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Spielberg unsettles in Disclosure Day's Super Bowl trailer

A new trailer for Disclosure Day has arrived, offering a different kind of close encounter from Steven Spielberg. The incessant clicking of the unknowable alien lifeforms first heard in the initial trailer returns here, making their presence keenly felt. The film is Spielberg's first alien-centric picture in nearly

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Maryam d’Abo on Bond, journalism and Spanish Oranges

Spanish Oranges, Alba Arikha’s drama about artistic creation and married life, opens with a spiky encounter between the celebrated novelist Fiona and the journalist interviewing her. Maryam d’Abo, who stars in the London production, joined Arikha from Paris for a video call and admits to a wariness of

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Concierges share local gems across Asia Pacific

Travelling to the Asia Pacific region calls for more than ticking off tourist clichés. Hotel concierges live and breathe their cities and can point visitors to quieter corners, memorable meals and little-known spots that reveal local character. In Shanghai, Winson Wang—who has worked as a concierge for 20 years

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No Star Trek Villain Tops Deep Space Nine’s Most Sinister Enemy

Star Trek has produced many memorable antagonists — the Gorn, the Borg, Khan Noonien Singh and even the mischievous Q — but Deep Space Nine’s Gul Dukat stands apart. He appears in both the series premiere and finale, and turns up in 35 of the show’s 176 episodes, carrying a

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I flew cross-country to be grass in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show

Andrew Athias, 33, a Philadelphia-based digital marketer and content creator, was one of the 500 bunches of dancing grass at Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show. He flew from Philadelphia to San Francisco in the middle of a snowstorm and spent two weeks rehearsing; he was paid $18.

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Brad Pitt channels classic Hollywood in first look at Fincher's Cliff Booth

A surprise Super Bowl TV spot offered the first full look at Brad Pitt's return as Cliff Booth in David Fincher's The Adventures of Cliff Booth. The TV spot features a returning Booth, post Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, working as a studio fixer. The

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TV tonight: Mackenzie Crook’s lovely new supernatural sitcom

Small Prophets, 10pm, BBC Two. A sweet, supernatural new sitcom from Mackenzie Crook. Oddball Michael (Pearce Quigley) is Miss Havisham with a beard, living in the house his partner left seven years earlier and never returned to. His dad, Brian (Michael Palin), who has moved to a care home, says

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Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show cameos

For lots of Americans the Super Bowl Halftime Show is the main attraction of the big game. That proved especially true for 2026's Super Bowl LX, which was headlined by Puerto Rican megastar Bad Bunny. While some folks scoffed at Bad Bunny's selection — mostly those who

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Ai Weiwei on returning to China, censorship and AI

Ai Weiwei describes the arithmetic he did before his first visit to China in over a decade. Before boarding a flight with his son, who had never met the artist’s elderly mother, he thought back to his time in detention when captors told him he would spend the next

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Prime Video's Steal Is an 80% RT Heist Thriller That's Hard to Stop

Prime Video's new series Steal is a six-episode heist thriller that swaps bank vaults for millions in cryptocurrency and currently holds an 80% critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The show moves briskly, piling on twists that keep the story tense from start to finish, and serves as another

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Cool design and wild art on a city break in Metz

At the Centre Pompidou-Metz a six-metre skeleton of a domestic cat called Felix anchors Dimanche Sans Fin, an exhibition curated by Maurizio Cattelan that brings together more than 400 works from Paris’s Centre Pompidou, which closed for a five-year renovation last October. The show imagines different takes on a

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Lady Gaga's Super Bowl 2026 look paid tribute to Puerto Rico

Bad Bunny’s electric Super Bowl 2026 halftime show was a love letter to his native Puerto Rico, and Lady Gaga joined him onstage, belting out "Die With a Smile" in a powder blue pleated dress by Brooklyn-based Dominican-American designer Raul López of Luar. Her flamenco-inspired look featured