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Arts & Culture

A still from the film Eternity. Elizabeth Olsen’s Joan and Callum Turner’s Luke stand close, hands clasped while Miles Teller’s Larry looks on.
Lea Gallo
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A24
So, you probably wouldn’t think of pondering eternity as a casual, much less comedic, exercise. Yet that’s what you get in Eternity, which wants to balance fantasy, romance, pathos and humor.
  • A shipwreck on the beach with two people in the distance.
    Anna King
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    NWPB
    Part of the Northwest Coast is often referred to as the “Graveyard of the Pacific.” That's because it's home to thousands of shipwrecks. NWPB's Anna King talks with host Phineas Pope about our new short documentary, "Wrecked: Sinking Ships & Colliding Cultures on the Northwest Coast."
  • Historian Coll Thrush’s book titled “Wrecked” traces the history of iconic shipwrecks on the Pacific Northwest Coast and what impacts the wrecks have had on the Indigenous communities there.
  • A postcard with a black and white picture of Johann Strauss Jr. on the left, and his signature on the right.
    Courtesy Verlag C. Ledermann Jr., Vienna/Wikimedia Commons
    Johann Strauss, Jr. was born in an outlying district of Vienna two centuries ago, on October 25, 1825. His music has been celebrated at the annual New Year’s concerts given by the Vienna Philharmonic since 1939. Champagne glasses at the ready, then. Let’s raise a toast to the immortal “Waltz King.”