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For More Than 30 Years, Comics Flock To Montreal Every July

5:55am July 24, 2015

by Elizabeth Blair

Montreal is home to the biggest and oldest international comedy festival in the world. Dave Chappelle, Mike Myers, Wanda Sykes and Kevin Hart are among the performers this year.

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The hand-colored photo, titled "Reclining young lady," is of Stella Osarhiere Gbinigie when she was 16.

An 80-Year-Old Looks Into The Eyes Of Her Teenage Self

8:05pm July 23, 2015

by Ina Yang

In 1950, a teenage girl in Nigeria put on her mother's fancy clothes and posed for a photo. In 2015, she had her first encounter with the original, hand-colored portrait.

Rachel McAdams as Maureen Hope and Jake Gyllenhaal as Billy Hope in Southpaw.

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'Southpaw' Makes A Bruised Bruiser Out Of Jake Gyllenhaal

6:08pm July 23, 2015

by Chris Klimek

In the story of a struggling boxer, Gyllenhaal undergoes a physical transformation that's more and more common for actors in a superhero-driven world.

Iced tea made from local berries is served with melon and squares of sweet sticky rice topped with fruits and nuts. The nuns eat these sweets on head-shaving day, to replenish their energy.

Buddhist Diet For A Clear Mind: Nuns Preserve Art Of Korean Temple Food

6:01pm July 23, 2015

by Ari Shapiro

In South Korea, Buddhist temple food is viewed the way spa food is in the U.S.: curative, cleansing, perhaps even medicinal. Buddhist nuns have preserved these cooking techniques for 1,600 years.

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Women get policed more often for "vocal fry" and "upspeak" than their male counterparts.

From Upspeak To Vocal Fry: Are We 'Policing' Young Women's Voices?

5:43pm July 23, 2015

Journalist Jessica Grose, linguistics professor Penny Eckert and speech pathologist Susan Sankin discuss upspeak, vocal fry and why women's voices are changing — and whether or not that's a problem.

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Ronald Zehrfeld (Johnny) and Nina Hoss (Nelly) in Christian Petzold's Phoenix.

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'Phoenix': An Unconventional Noir About Two Troubled Pasts

5:03pm July 23, 2015

by Ella Taylor

Director Christian Petzold sets his thrillers in critical periods of German history. Phoenix follows a concentration camp survivor returning to 1945 Berlin.

Cover of Among the Ten Thousand Things, by Julia Pierpont.

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Infidelity Is Steeped In Suspense In 'Among The Ten Thousand Things'

5:00pm July 23, 2015

by Maureen Corrigan

Julia Pierpont's debut novel opens with a young girl's discovery of her father's infidelity. Maureen Corrigan says that what follows is so unexpected and tense that it's a "fresh pleasure to read."

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Co-owner and chef Mark DeFelice cooks up an order of barbecue shrimp at Pascal's Manale restaurant in New Orleans.

Hacking Iconic New Orleans Barbecue Shrimp Far From The Gulf

4:28pm July 23, 2015

by John Burnett

Barbecue shrimp from Pascal's Manale is one of New Orleans' most beloved and copied dishes. Since it's hard to find head-on shrimp far from the Gulf, chef Mark DeFelice says use more spice.

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Remember that scene from Dirty Dancing when Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey practice their lifts in a lake? Turns out they weren't the only ones in the water; choreographer Kenny Ortega was right there beside them.

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You Might Not Know Kenny Ortega, But You Probably Know His Choreography

3:10pm July 23, 2015

by Elizabeth Blair

Ortega is one of the most sought after choreographers in showbiz. He has worked with everyone from Michael Jackson to Zac Efron and is responsible for some of Hollywood's most memorable dance scenes.

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Shirley Jackson Gets To The Heart Of The Home In 'Let Me Tell You'

2:27pm July 23, 2015

by Genevieve Valentine

This collection of the author's early fiction, unpublished stories and personal essays is a delightfully uneasy mix of wry family observation and the chills her eerie later work is known for.