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Two chefs get blasted in the face with a mystery entree on Dishmantled. I smell a Peabody! No, wait — marinara sauce. My mistake.

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Short Attention Span Theater: A Quick Look At Quibi's Launch Titles

12:55pm April 06, 2020

The streaming service "designed specifically for your phone" launches with 50 shows — and over 100 more on the way. Here are our highlights from the opening batch.

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Camden Catholic High School's virtual choir sings "I Am With You Always," led by music director Greg Gardner.

The Beat Goes On: High School Choirs Improvise In The Age Of Coronavirus

10:32am April 06, 2020

by Sequoia Carrillo

After cancelled musicals and spring concerts, choral directors across the country are going the extra mile to have their students' voices heard.

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A skilled player of jianzi, or the Chinese equivalent of Hackey Sack, jumps to pass the feathered toy to the next participant.

PHOTOS: Coronavirus Kept People Out Of Beijing's Parks. Now They're Coming Back

12:24pm April 05, 2020

As restrictions are relaxed in parts of China where the coronavirus struck, residents in Beijing are cautiously returning to the public spaces they love.

Notes on a Case of Melancholia, by Nicholas Gurewitch

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Grim Reaper Comedy 'Melancholia' Is Surprisingly Uplifting

10:00am April 05, 2020

by Etelka Lehoczky

Nicholas Gurewitch scratched images into clay with a stylus for this tale of Death's visit to an analyst — who helps him come to terms with Death Jr.'s lack of interest in the family business.

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, by Robert Kolker

In 'Hidden Valley Road,' A Family's Journey Helps Shift The Science Of Mental Illness

8:00am April 05, 2020

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Over the years, six of the Galvins' 12 children were diagnosed with schizophrenia. Robert Kolker, who has a new book on the family, says "there is a lot of hope and inspiration in this story."

An 1883 illustration of the Grim Reaper draped in a cloth labeled "cholera," arriving in America on a British ship.

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Little Demons, Death And Biting Dogs: How We Picture Disease

7:00am April 05, 2020

by Neda Ulaby

Today's cartoonists are depicting the novel coronavirus as an angry, spiky ball — reflecting our knowledge of viruses. But before we knew what they looked like, we imagined disease differently.

Since the coronavirus outbreak began, Laura Gao has been troubled by the disgust and pity directed at her hometown.

'The Wuhan I Know': A Comic About The City Behind The Coronavirus Headlines

11:50am April 04, 2020

by Aubri Juhasz

Laura Gao is a native of Wuhan, China — where the coronavirus outbreak began. As the virus spread, Wuhan captured the world's attention. Her comic offers a personal look at the city she loves.

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Not My Job: The Creators Of 'The Big Sick' Get Quizzed On A Big Chick

8:16am April 04, 2020

Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon created a film about their very unusual courtship called The Big Sick, so we've invited them to play a game called "The Big Chick" — three questions about Big Bird.

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Julia Alvarez: Literature Tells Us 'We Can Make It Through'

8:00am April 04, 2020

by Scott Simon

Julia Alvarez returns to adult fiction with Afterlife, which she calls her first novel as an "elder." It's about a newly retired woman whose comfortable life is upended when her husband dies.

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Charming 'Hex' Insists On Beauty And Joy

7:00am April 04, 2020

by Lily Meyer

Rebecca Dinerstein Knight's oddball new novel follows a newly unemployed scientist, lovesick for her former mentor — but convinced of her own worth and her need for a life full of beauty.