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News Articles: Arts & Life

Carrie Underwood is set to perform "America the Beautiful" during President-elect Donald Trump's swearing-in ceremony Monday.

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  • Arts & Life

Here's everyone performing at the presidential inauguration

Unlike Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration, which reportedly struggled to book high-profile performers, several well-known artists will partake in this year's inaugural events.

January 16, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
People visit the Magic Castle parking lot in Los Angeles, which has been turned into a donation pick-up and drop off center to help support tens of thousands of wildfire evacuees and victims across the county.

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  • Arts & Life

LA's Magic Castle offers a brief escape during the wildfires

A Los Angeles institution spared from the flames gives back to the community with donations and magic tricks to lift evacuees' spirits.

January 16, 2025
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  • Elise Hu
Comedian Conan O'Brien will receive the 26th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He's shown above in New York City in 2016.

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  • Arts & Life

Conan O'Brien will receive the Mark Twain Prize for comedy

"I am honored to be the first winner of the Mark Twain Prize recognized not for humor, but for my work as a riverboat pilot," O'Brien said in a release from The Kennedy Center.

January 16, 2025
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Performers with the Bob Baker Marionette Theater gesture to the crowd of families at Vidiots, a historic theater in northeast Los Angeles, a few miles from where fires are still burning in the Altadena and Pasadena neighborhoods.

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  • Arts & Life

Local LA theaters bring puppets and movies to families for respite from fires

Vidiots and the Bob Baker Marionette Theater teamed up to provide an escape from reality for families facing trauma and loss from the Los Angeles wildfires.

January 16, 2025
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  • Jonaki Mehta

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  • Arts & Life

WATCH: Seth Meyers plays Wild Card

January 15, 2025
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"Unprecedented destruction of heritage sites has severed vital connections between the people of Gaza and its urban fabric," the World Monuments Fund says in its 2025 Watch list. Above, Al-Hassaina Mosque and the seaport in Gaza City pictured on Jan. 26, 2021 (right), and again on January 6, 2024, (left).<br>

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  • Arts & Life

Gaza and the moon make biennial most-endangered list

The World Monuments Fund list seeks to raise awareness and funds to help preserve the sites it spotlights. Africa's Swahili Coast, Maine's lighthouses and Buddhist grottoes in China are also in peril.

January 15, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby
In <em>The Half Known Life, </em>Pico Iyer traveled around the world to discover what different cultures and religions perceive as paradise<em>. </em>His new memoir is <em>Aflame: Learning from Silence.</em>

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  • Author Interviews

Years ago, writer Pico Iyer lost everything in a wildfire. This is what he learned

After a 1990 wildfire destroyed his home and possessions, Iyer started over. The loss led him to a Benedictine monastery, where he found comfort and compassion in solitude. His new memoir is Aflame.

January 15, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, called RedNote in English, is attracting scores of Americans ahead of TikTok's potential shutdown in the U.S.

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  • Technology

What to know about RedNote, the Chinese app that American TikTokkers are flooding

With TikTok's days in the U.S. potentially numbered, many American users are moving to another Chinese social media app: RedNote, a heavily censored platform similar to Instagram. Here's what to know.

January 15, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
The buddy system can help you stick with your goals.

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  • Arts & Life

The secret to doing hard things and getting stuff done

Some people team up with an "accountability partner" or "accountability group" to accomplish big goals or tasks. Here's how to set up a successful partnership.

January 15, 2025
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  • Marielle Segarra and
  • Clare Marie Schneider
Kimberly Godsey was a nurse-in-training when a physician taught her how to deliver painful news with compassion.

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  • Arts & Life

What a physician taught Kimberly Godsey when she was a nurse-in-training

When Kimberly Godsey was training to become a nurse practitioner, a physician taught her how to deliver painful news with compassion. Years later, his lesson showed up in her own life.

January 15, 2025
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  • Autumn Barnes and
  • Laura Kwerel

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  • Book Reviews

Show up to your next book club meeting with these 12 reading recommendations

Sometimes you finish a book and just have to talk about it with someone else. If your book club is looking for its next conversation-sparking title we have a dozen for you!

January 15, 2025
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  • Dhanika Pineda
Neil Gaiman attends the 73rd National Book Awards in November 2022 in New York City.

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  • Books

Neil Gaiman has responded to sexual misconduct allegations

The accusations stretch back decades and first became public last summer. Gaiman wrote, "I'm far from a perfect person, but I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever."

January 14, 2025
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Pope Francis waves from the Popemobile in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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  • Religion

Five things we learn about Pope Francis from his new memoir

In Pope Francis' autobiography Hope he reiterates themes of his papacy like hatred of war and unchecked capitalism, and a desire for the Catholic Church to be seen as a field hospital, not a fortress.

January 14, 2025
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  • Daniel Burke
Bob Dylan at a press conference in London in 1966.

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  • Music

Bid on the bard: Auction features historic items from Bob Dylan's life

The lot includes about 50 items and features early handwritten drafts for Dylan's hit "Mr. Tambourine Man" as well as photographs, posters and a signed harmonica.

January 14, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
Leslie Charlson played Dr. Monica Quartermaine on <em>General Hospital. </em>She's shown above in 1982.

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  • Obituaries

Leslie Charleson, who starred on 'General Hospital' for nearly 50 years, dies at 79

Colleagues are remembering the soap opera star for her "quick wit" and presence on set. She died after a long illness.

January 13, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
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