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Comic Maria Bamford is down to 'Join Your Cult'

1:32pm September 06, 2023

by Tonya Mosley

Bamford has been part of five different 12-step programs, including groups for overeaters and sex and love addicts. In her new memoir, she jokes about anxiety, depression and the desire to fit in.

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Lars Mikkelsen stars as real estate baron Holger Lang in Season 3 of the Danish thriller Face to Face.

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'Face to Face' is a murder mystery that lives up to the tradition of Nordic Noir

1:32pm September 06, 2023

by John Powers

Imagine if Logan Roy from Succession had to solve a murder. That's the vibe of the third and final season of this Danish thriller, which focuses on a heartless developer's attempt to solve a crime.

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Former YouTube star Ruby Franke, pictured here in a video for her mental health counseling service ConneXions, was charged with six felony counts of child abuse.

YouTube vlogger Ruby Franke formally charged with 6 felony counts of child abuse

10:50am September 06, 2023

by Emily Olson

Ruby Franke, the YouTube mommy blogger behind the channel 8 Passengers, was arrested last week after her 12-year-old son climbed out a window and ran to a neighbor's house asking for food and water.

Franne Lee at the New York Public Library's Hal Prince exhibition in 2019. Lee designed the costumes for Prince's Sweeney Todd and Candide.

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Franne Lee, who designed costumes for 'SNL' and 'Sweeney Todd,' dies at 81

5:10am September 06, 2023

by Elizabeth Blair

From SNL's Coneheads to Killer Bees, Broadway's Sweeney Todd and Candide, we remember Tony Award-winning costume designer Franne Lee who died on Aug. 27.

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5 YA books for fall that give academia vibes

5:00am September 06, 2023

by Caitlyn Paxson

These new tales offer up eerie magics, mysterious buildings, tentative friendships, and a whole lot of excellent excuses for why someone's homework didn't get done.

Vehicles seen departing the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nev., on Monday.

Burning Man attendees say learning to live with the unexpected is part of the program

7:52pm September 05, 2023

Organizers had asked attendees to shelter in place on Saturday, as torrential rains turned the desert site into a mud pit. A driving ban has since been lifted, but exiting is still a trek.

How a man's sorrowful public piano song helped console many in China

5:55pm September 05, 2023

by John Ruwitch

In a country where open expressions of sorrow can be interpreted as political, Peng Haitao's piano performance in public strikes a chord with many in China.

The scale of Starfield is enormous, as are the possibilities for players.

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Inside the making of Starfield — one of the biggest stories ever told

4:31pm September 05, 2023

Starfield's story shoots for the stars. How much players like it will have big consequences here on Earth.

"History is something we participate in together," says author Zadie Smith. "We are all involved in history, and all have something to gain from understanding what happened – exactly what happened." Her new novel, The Fraud, is based on real events.

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In 'The Fraud,' Zadie Smith seeks to 'do absolute justice to the truth'

3:18pm September 05, 2023

by Terry Gross

The historical fiction novel centers on a real-life Victorian Era trial. Smith says she doesn't look back on the past with a sense of superiority: In her view, human life is "a continued struggle."

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How I learned that creativity and vulnerability go hand in hand

6:00am September 05, 2023

by Lauren González

I often call Julia Cameron, the luminary behind The Artist's Way, my fairy godmother. Her philosophy has helped me understand that the ability to be artistic comes more naturally than one would think.