How Usher Arrived at the Super Bowl Halftime Show
A conversation about his long career path through several generations of R&B, and what he might do on such a big stage. […]
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Review: Vikingur Olafsson’s ‘Goldbergs’ Mesmerize Carnegie Hall
In his debut on the main Carnegie stage, Olafsson gave a spectacular reading of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. In his debut on the […]
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Timeline
The planet’s biggest pop star met America’s biggest sport, and heads collectively exploded. Here are the moments people got happy, sad, angry […]
Read moreDick Waterman, Promoter and Photographer of the Blues, Dies at 88
A “crackpot eccentric Yankee” from Massachusetts, he revived the careers of long-forgotten Southern artists during the blues boom of the 1960s. A […]
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Kansas City Stars, With Help From Taylor Swift, Are Advertising Champs
On-field success and a certain off-field relationship helped make Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Andy Reid ubiquitous on TV commercials during the […]
Read moreGoogle Retires A.I. Chatbot Bard and Releases Gemini, a Powerful New App
As it races to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google has retired its Bard chatbot and released a more powerful app.As it races […]
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Russia Bars Antiwar Candidate in Election Putin Is All But Sure of Winning
The barring of the only candidate voicing opposition to the war in Ukraine showed how little tolerance the Kremlin has for dissent. […]
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Construction Industry Grapples With Its Top Killer: Drug Overdose
Construction workers are more likely to die of overdose than workers in any other occupation, forcing the industry to rethink its approach […]
Read moreShould Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Have an Apostrophe?
Grammarians wonder: Should there be an apostrophe in “The Tortured Poets Department”? Grammarians wonder: Should there be an apostrophe in “The Tortured […]
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The Land of Ferrari and Lamborghini Has a New Speed Limit: 30 K.P.H.
Bologna has become the first major Italian city to impose the limit on most streets, citing safety and livability. But it’s too […]
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