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Dolly Parton Will Read Bedtime Stories To Kids Online Every Week
“Dolly hopes this series of stories will provide comfort and reassurance to coping kids and families during the shelter-in-place mandates,” the Imagination Library said.
In ‘Unorthodox’ On Netflix, A Religious Woman Leaves Her Marriage And Her Past Behind
The new Netflix series was inspired by Deborah Feldman’s best-selling memoir about ending her arranged marriage. In the TV adaptation, the young woman leaves her home in Brooklyn and moves to Berlin.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Tigers, Not Daughters’ Is Haunting — With Or Without A Ghost
In Samantha Mabry’s new novel, three prickly sisters are haunted, maybe literally, by their fourth, who’s died in an accident. She has a message for them, but they may be too sunk in grief to hear it.
Need Some Fresh Ideas? Family-Friendly Ways To Spend Your Days Inside
Parents have been circulating ideas for how to keep kids happy — or at least occupied — during this time of social isolation due to COVID-19. Our Arts Desk has some heart-felt suggestions to offer.
What Is Fact Hygiene And Why You Should Listen To Max Brooks
Max Brooks wrote the zombie apocalyptic horror novel World War Z, and is a lecturer at West Point’s Modern War Institute. He offers insight into pandemics and advice on what is fact hygiene.
In ‘Wine Girl,’ Taking On The Old Boys Of The Wine World
Victoria James loves wine; she became a sommelier at 21 — but she discovered that the world of wine was an old boys’ club that didn’t welcome women. Her new memoir chronicles her fight to fit in.
In ‘The Glass Hotel,’ Emily St. John Mandel Asks: How Many Chances Do We Get?
In her first novel since the hit pandemic tale Station Eleven, Mandel introduces a troubled brother and sister who get involved with a crooked hotel magnate, changing their lives in unexpected ways.
‘Riverdance’ Turns 25, But Has Put The Celebration On Hold — For Now
The Irish dance spectacle has been performed for audiences all over the world. The current production was polished for the anniversary, but has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
A Trip To Seattle’s Selfie Museum Poses A Boost To Self-Confidence
Once finding it near Seattle’s infamous Gum Wall, visitors will enter a small lobby leading to eccentric installations and flashy colors on every corner. After giving the front-desk your name, staff will stamp your hand and advise visitors of three important rules: have fun, take lots of pictures and don’t break anything.
‘Making Is About Our Survival’: Exhibition Celebrates Artwork Of Native Women
The “Hearts of Our People” exhibition is devoted entirely to the art of Native American women past and present. “We’re still very powerfully here,” says Anita Fields, one of the artists in the show.
Featuring Steve Earle’s Music, ‘Coal Country’ Play Recounts Deadly West Virginia Mine Explosion
A new play tells the story of the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia. Songwriter Steve Earle used it as a creative challenge to write his forthcoming album, Ghosts of West Virginia.
BOOK REVIEW: With A Legacy Of Colonization, ‘Postcolonial Love Poem’ Empowers Native Voice
Poet Natalie Diaz returns, interrogating the lasting effects of colonization asking: If a colonizer’s influence can’t be eradicated from a culture, how can you push back against violence and erasure?
