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Jerry: I love D’Angelo. The guy is a masterful songwriter, musician and orchestrator. His latest album, “Black Messiah,” is a performance-enhancing drug for me when I run. But as a painfully...
This is for those of us who spent our childhoods trying to bend minds with the Force and had a crisis of faith at the appearance of Jar Jar Binks in our universe. As we get gear up for our opening night...
**Spoiler alert** If you could go back to the day of a crime and reconstruct everything that happened, would you be able to figure out who the real killer is? More importantly, how would you make the judgment...
It was a hot mid-afternoon in July three years ago. I emerged from the stiff AC of The Eatery and took the N to Prince St. Broadway was a bright projection of people, shadows and dancing sunlight. A mild...
Last October Mark C. Taylor wrote a scathing critique of our society’s obsession with speed in The Chronicle of Higher Education. He looks back over the past century and shows how technology has increased...
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When news first broke that private images had been stolen from a number of celebrities in an en masse 4chan free-for-all, 11andmore had a group discussion about our global fascination with celebrity, our right...
Feminism today is personal, professional and big money. Books such as Lean In, Thrive and The Confidence Gap are turning the likes of Sheryl Sandberg, Arianna Huffington, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman into...
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