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News Articles: Arts & Life

Yazmin Lopez, here at home in Madison, Wis., first learned about credit scores from a personal finance book she picked up at Goodwill a few years after coming to the U.S. as a teenager.

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Welcome to America! Now learn to be in debt

The U.S. economy counts on you to borrow money and stay in debt for a credit score. But what if you were taught to never owe anybody anything?

May 24, 2023
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  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Tirzah Christopher
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who directed the prosecution of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin, is releasing a book about his experience.

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  • Author Interviews

The AG who prosecuted George Floyd's killers has ideas for how to end police violence

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison kept notes as lead prosecutor in the state's case against Derek Chauvin. He's sharing them in a new book, Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence.

May 24, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman and
  • Jan Johnson
Translator Angela Rodel, left, and author Georgi Gospodinov have won the 2023 International Booker Prize for <em>Time Shelter.</em> They are pictured above in London on May 23, 2023.

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  • Book News & Features

Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel win International Booker Prize for 'Time Shelter'

This win is a first for a Bulgarian novel — the author and translator will split the prize money. Time Shelter imagines a clinic for Alzheimer's patients where each floor reproduces a past decade.

May 23, 2023
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Sarah Lancashire plays big-hearted police sergeant Catherine Cawood in <em>Happy Valley.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

The final season of the hit BBC crime series 'Happy Valley' has come to the U.S.

Sarah Lancashire plays Catherine Cawood, a big-hearted police sergeant trying to protect her grandson from his violent father. The three seasons offer a twisty and deeply satisfying emotional journey.

May 23, 2023
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By:
  • John Powers
Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays a writer whose husband hates the novel she's working on in <em>You Hurt My Feelings.</em>

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  • Movie Interviews

Julia Louis-Dreyfus recalls the first laugh she got — and the ER trip that followed

She was about 3 years old and had stuck raisins up her nose — but she made her mom laugh so she calls it a win. The Veep star plays a writer whose husband hates her new novel in You Hurt My Feelings.

May 23, 2023
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By:
  • Dave Davies
For his "Rich Spirit" / "N95" medley on <em>SNL</em>, Kendrick Lamar performed with minimal visual accompaniment, perfectly geared for the raw intimacy of his newest material.

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  • Music

'SNL' just wrapped its 48th season: It's time to cruelly rank its musical guests

From Kendrick Lamar and Megan Thee Stallion to Coldplay, here they are: the magnificent, the flawed-but-forceful, the forgettable and the truly, epically misbegotten.

May 23, 2023
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  • Stephen Thompson
A patch on a pair of Levi 513 jeans. An immigrant tailor Jacob Davis teamed up with dry goods merchant Levi Strauss to patent the first rivet blue jeans in 1873.

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  • Arts & Life

Durable and enduring, blue jeans turn 150

It's hard to imagine a piece of clothing that's more wrapped up in American history and mythology than blue jeans. They were invented 150 years ago.

May 23, 2023
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  • Jessica Green
During World War II, the American Red Cross Clubmobile corps (shown here on an airfield in England in 1943) provided donuts, coffee and friendly conversation to the troops.

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  • Book Reviews

Luis Alberto Urrea pays tribute to WWII's forgotten volunteers — including his mother

The author's mother was a Red Cross volunteer assigned to Patton's 3rd Army — she was with the troops who helped liberate Buchenwald. Urrea's new woman-centered wartime novel is Good Night, Irene.

May 22, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Mary Tyler Moore, shown here in 1969, won seven Emmy Awards over the course of her career.

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  • TV Reviews

Hats off to an illuminating new documentary about Mary Tyler Moore

HBO's Being Mary Tyler Moore draws on interviews and home movies to create a complex portrait of Moore, from her complicated private life, to her groundbreaking career.

May 22, 2023
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By:
  • David Bianculli
Wanda Sykes performs at the Miller Theater in Philadelphia during her Netflix special<em> I'm an Entertainer.</em>

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  • Television

Wanda Sykes stands in solidarity with Hollywood writers: 'We can't back down'

As a member of the Writers Guild of America, Sykes is fully supportive of the current strike; she says the survival of the craft is at stake. Her new Netflix special is I'm an Entertainer.

May 22, 2023
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  • Tonya Mosley
A commercial for the Temu app run by production services company The Lift in Mexico City. This ad aired during the 2023 Super Bowl.

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  • Latin America

The next show you watch could be filmed in Mexico City

American and European companies are increasingly having their commercials, shows and films shot in Mexico, taking advantage of lower costs and experienced Mexican crews.

May 22, 2023
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  • James Fredrick
Halle Bailey stars as Ariel in Disney's live-action <em>The Little Mermaid — </em>the studio's latest blatant cash-grab.

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  • Movie Reviews

'The Little Mermaid' is the latest of Disney's poor unfortunate remakes

Disney has a formula: Take a beloved animated property, update its sensibilities for modern audiences, recast it with a bunch of familiar faces and voices, and rehash it all in "live-action"/CGI form.

May 22, 2023
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By:
  • Aisha Harris
Roman (Kieran Culkin) thought he was ready to take over after his triumph on election night. He was wrong.

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  • TV Reviews

'Succession' season 4, episode 9: 'Church and State'

Logan's funeral is a wrenching experience for his kids — and then they get right back to scheming and plotting, as civil unrest in the streets grows closer.

May 21, 2023
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Simran Jeet Singh, pictured here in the days after the attack on the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. in 2012, says he turned to his faith to help him through.

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  • Religion

Letting go of hate by questioning the very idea of evil

Author Simran Jeet Singh talks about how to move beyond hate and anger to see the humanity in others.

May 21, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Writer Martin Amis has died at 73.

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  • Obituaries

Martin Amis, British author of era-defining novels, dies at 73

The influential novelist and nonfiction writer died in Florida of esophageal cancer. His novels, such as Money, The Information and London Fields, came to define British life in the late 20th century.

May 20, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
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