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'Out Of Wonder' Aims To Inspire A New Generation Of Poets

4:49am March 17, 2017

by Rachel Martin

Kwame Alexander's new book is a collection of original poems written in the style of 20 famous poets. The aim is to introduce kids to great poetry — and encourage them to write poems of their own.

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The Oxford Comma: Great For Listing, Pontificating, And Winning Court Cases

8:02pm March 16, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

An appeals court dispute between a Maine dairy company and its delivery drivers came down to a single punctuation mark — or rather, the lack of it. Count it a win for the controversial comma.

President Trump speaks during a rally on Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn., a day before his budget proposal was released.

Trump's Budget Plan Cuts Funding For Arts, Humanities And Public Media

7:46pm March 16, 2017

by Brian Naylor

The proposed spending cuts released on Thursday would affect local arts groups as well as public radio and TV stations nationwide.

Buffalo Gal, Won't You Come Out Tonight: Belle (Emma Watson) and the Beast (Dan Stevens) twirl in the live-action musical salute to interspecies Stockholm Syndrome, Beauty and the Beast.

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Tale As Old As Time — And It Shows: 'Beauty And The Beast'

5:19pm March 16, 2017

by Andrew Lapin

The live-action, CGI-besotted remake of Disney's 1991 animated musical never manages to justify its existence, says critic Andrew Lapin, because it sets out "not to conjure wonder, but nostalgia."

A Toast! To Absent Ceiling Babies!: Simon (Jonny Lee Miller), Renton (Ewan McGregor) and Veronika (Anjela Nedyalkova) in T2 Trainspotting.

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'T2 Trainspotting': Indulgent Film Reunites Indulgent Characters, 20 Years Later

5:00pm March 16, 2017

by Scott Tobias

The sequel to Danny Boyle's blisteringly original 1997 movie lacks that film's structure and insight, but the cast can still generate fitful flashes of energy and charm.

Ryôta (Hiroshi Abe) and son Shingo (Taiyô Yoshizawa) visit a market in After the Storm.

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A Family Struggles To Connect In The Rueful, Richly Detailed 'After The Storm'

5:00pm March 16, 2017

by Ella Taylor

Hirokazu Kore-eda's drama about a stalled writer's attempts to make peace with his extended family is a quiet and meticulously wrought character study.

Adrien (Pierre Niney) and Anna (Paula Beer) share a graveside moment in Frantz.

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A Unlikely Romance Blossoms, Rooted In A Secret: 'Frantz'

5:00pm March 16, 2017

by Mark Jenkins

French writer-director Francois Ozon adapts Broken Lullaby, Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 melodrama about a mysterious Frenchman and a German war-widow in the aftermath of World War I.

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Vietnamese American Photographer An-My Le Selected For Whitney Biennial

4:43pm March 16, 2017

by Elizabeth Blair

Vietnamese American photographer An-My Le is one of 63 artists selected for this year's Whitney Biennial. Her new work was shot in Louisiana.

Bill Walsh died on Wednesday from complications of bile duct cancer. He worked at The Washington Post for 20 years as a copy editor.

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Remembering Bill Walsh's Way With Words

3:29pm March 16, 2017

by Linda Holmes

Language authority and Washington Post copy editor Bill Walsh died Wednesday after a long career making other people's writing better.

Miners favored the pasty due to its portable nature — a small meat pie that could easily be carried into the mines for 12-hour workdays.

In Michigan, The Pasty Isn't X-Rated. It's A Portable Pie With History Baked In

3:11pm March 16, 2017

by Erin Wisti

The lightly seasoned meat and veggie pie, prevalent in the Upper Peninsula, is pure fuel. Popularized by Cornish miners in the 1800s, it's come to symbolize tenacity in the face of trying conditions.