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In 1665, Johannes Vermeer dabbed the last drop of paint onto a canvas in his Dutch studio, completing his masterpiece “Girl With a Pearl Earring.”On an April day 357 years later, Janine...

When Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman first let loose their swords, voodoo and pirates epic "The Secret of Monkey Island", it was sold on floppy disks and released for long-forgotten home PCs...

In the recent years the tales of vampires have become common with many of them just showing the blood suckers as unredeemable beasts. It’s until years ago that we moved from the...

THE DOOR OF NO RETURN, by Kwame AlexanderBehind the seemingly straightforward details of history in Kwame Alexander’s new novel-in-verse, “The Door of No Return” — the first book in a trilogy following...

A child’s kidnapping ignites a protracted bid for redemption in this down-and-dirty thriller.

“A Jazzman’s Blues,” Tyler Perry’s melodrama about ill-fated teenagers who fall in love in rural Georgia, marks the writer-director-studio head’s return to his first screenplay, w‌hich he wrote in 1995. In the...

Xenakis’s relationship with Le Corbusier went on to be both fruitful and celebrated, leading to the creation of the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels. And as Xenakis garnered...

“I don’t know, that doesn’t sound like the Donald Trump I know,” Jimmy Kimmel joked.“And it’s no surprise — the president is known for inflated assets.” — STEPHEN COLBERT“You can tell Trump...

Carol Burnett doesn’t own a Broadway theater. But she does have a long résumé, a lot of friends and fans, and an Instagram account. And now she is hoping to use what...

Maybe the soot helped.The English songwriter Beth Orton wasn’t sure she even wanted to make another album when she started to write the songs for “Weather Alive”: her eighth studio album, her...