Arts & Life

Guangzhou Opera House in Guangzhou, China, was designed by Zaha Hadid, a Pritzker-winning architect. Hadid died at 65.

Renowned Architect Zaha Hadid Dies At 65

2:36pm March 31, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Hadid was first famous for spectacular designs that were never built — but later proved her ideas worked in the real world, not just on paper. She was the first woman to win the Pritzker prize.

Injuries Increase As Pitchers Throw Harder, Faster And Younger

2:04pm March 31, 2016

In The Arm, baseball columnist Jeff Passan explains how competitive pressure on young players is making them more vulnerable.

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Dietland and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

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'You Cannot Shame Me': 2 New Books Tear Down 'Fat Girl' Stereotypes

7:16am March 31, 2016

by Lynn Neary

Authors Sarai Walker and Mona Awad were tired of the way fat characters were — and weren't — portrayed in fiction. Dietland and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl attack a culture of stigmatization.

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'Empire Of Things' Surveys How, What And Why We Consume

7:00am March 31, 2016

by Jason Heller

Frank Trentmann's sprawling new history looks at several centuries worth of consumerism. It's a huge, and hugely readable survey of all the ways we accumulate — and exhaust — material goods.

Wedge Studios in the River Arts District of Asheville, N.C.

Sense Of Place Asheville: River Arts District

4:56pm March 30, 2016

Take a tour of Asheville's creative hub and hear how local artists respond to a changing community.

Ray Romano plays Zak Yankovich, a record company's head of promotions, in HBO's Vinyl.

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Ray Romano Gets Deep, Dark And Angsty For Martin Scorsese's 'Vinyl'

3:09pm March 30, 2016

Ever since Everybody Loves Raymond, the actor says he's been trying to take on more dramatic roles. In the HBO drama Vinyl, he plays a record company executive who contemplates suicide.

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Illustration of people communicating via computers.

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When You Become The Person You Hate On The Internet

11:23am March 30, 2016

by Sarah Hepola

Author Sarah Hepola has complained for years about the random hatred of the Internet. Then, with one careless post, she became part of the problem.

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A Spanish Comic Book Exposes Franco's Orphanages

7:20am March 30, 2016

by Etelka Lehoczky

Carlos Giménez's graphic novel Paracuellos is an unflinching memoir of his time in the orphanages of Franco's Spain; it makes the experiences of a few boys in the 1950s inescapably universal.

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Lurid And Ludicrous, 'Shock SuspenStories' Will Make Your Eyes Pop

7:00am March 30, 2016

by Etelka Lehoczky

A new collection reprints the first six issues of EC Comics' classic 1950s pulp horror series. Packed with gore and goofiness, these may, in fact, be the comics your mother warned you about.

In Eugène Delacroix's 1827 lithograph, Mephistopheles Aloft, 1827, a demon flies over a dark city.

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For 19th Century French Artists, 'Noir' Was The New Black

6:01am March 30, 2016

by Susan Stamberg

After the Industrial Revolution, artists started getting creative with some newly available black materials. An exhibit at LA's Getty museum celebrates their exploration of the shadows.

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