| 单词 | modern-day |
| 例句 | It’s not his fault the press won’t let it go, though; that they love the idea of them together as if they’re modern-day Kennedys. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We have been reading about a young girl named Zlata, who many call the modern-day Anne Frank. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Not yet. I need to wait for the sun to get a little lower. And if I get lucky, I’m going to coax a few birds to pose with it. A modern-day lion-and-lamb thing.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Many described her as a modern-day Joan of Arc. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Anne Frank’s book was a natural choice, but I was really excited to discover the book by the young Bosnian writer, who critics are hailing as a “modern-day Anne Frank.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Indeed, if one were to retrace the Burr-Hamilton route across the Hudson and land just upstream from the modern-day Lincoln Tunnel, one would come face-to-face with a sheer cliff 150 feet high. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z These bureaucratic minefields are the modern-day equivalent of poll taxes and literacy tests—“colorblind” rules designed to make voting a practical impossibility for a group defined largely by race. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Like a modern-day covered wagon, it rolls out of the waving grasslands and stops. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A number of modern-day nations, like Israel and Saudi Arabia, still use a modified lunar calendar, but 6,000 years ago the Egyptians came up with a better system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He left Washington wearing the equivalent of a modern-day business suit, unsuitable for camping out. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, he emerged as if he were a modern-day Mark Twain or a J. D. Salinger. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z During the peak of ancient astronomy, Greek astronomical tables regularly employed zero; its symbol was the lowercase omicron, o, which looks very much like our modern-day zero, though it’s probably a coincidence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She’d heard of modern-day singers jumping into crowds of fans and getting passed overhead by thousands of hands. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I felt like a modern-day fairy godmother from Cinderella, only without that silly outfit. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z These television shows, especially those that romanticize drug-law enforcement, are the modern-day equivalent of the old movies portraying happy slaves, the fictional gloss placed on a brutal system of racialized oppression and control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He pressured and bullied other teenagers into acting like modern-day Nazis. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “To imply the Cro-Magnon were lug heads is wrong. They exhibited a cranial capacity approximately sixteen hundred cubic centimeters larger than modern-day humans.’ Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “That sounds lovely,” Velia said sweetly, sounding like a heroine in one of those historical pieces on the arts channel instead of a modern-day girl stranded in the ruins of the Mexican countryside. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z In modern-day Iran, men and women aren’t technically allowed to celebrate in the same room together, but many are willing to break the law to cut a rug. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It is the size of a truck engine, nosed in knobs, shiny with chrome, gleaming with modern-day hope. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “A loner and a modern-day explorer of the Dark Continent,” she said dryly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Because modern-day hunter-gatherers in Africa live in egalitarian bands that constantly move from place to place, archaeologists assumed that Native American hunter-gatherers must also have done so. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But just as the Blues, ragtime and jazz emerged among the poor, disconnected communities of the American South, there is a modern-day equivalent that was likewise born in areas of deprivation: hip-hop. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Ancient hunter-gatherers worked much less than modern-day humans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “The very model of modern-day, space-saving efficiency. The height of style and comfort, of convenience and practicality. I give you the Murphy bed.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z One of the country's most famous modern-day exports - Lurpak butter - features the horn both in its name and on its packaging. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She was a modern-day Audrey Hepburn, with the delicate features necessary to pull off a pixie cut. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z If you were to write a modern-day Romeo and Juliet, what would make yours stand apart from these others? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I drew the line in fifth grade when my mom sent me to school as the modern-day queen of England in her old yellow suit with my hair curled up high and sprayed white. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z In other words, yellow fever is a “modern-day time bomb. We’re just sitting here waiting for it to happen.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Sometimes it’s a text or a voice mail message; in my case it was an email, the modern-day lipstick on the collar. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z For most modern-day music lovers, music is something mysterious, unpredictable, sensual and, above all, emotional. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Always had a girlfriend and a crowd of people around him and could do no wrong—kind of like a modern-day prince. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Ms. Kaufman grew up in Odessa, in modern-day Ukraine, speaking Russian and Yiddish. Bel Kaufman dies at 103; author of bestseller ‘Up the Down Staircase’ “Mudlark” is an old term, dating back at least to Victorian river scavengers, and their modern-day counterparts took the name for themselves with a certain inverse pride. T Magazine: The Wading Game 2011-05-20T18:06:59Z Here are just some of the intricacies of modern-day airline tickets. Perspective | Do airline tickets need warning labels? 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Rather than rely on trite love triangles to lead to an assassination attempt on Titus by an old lover and a schoolboy friend, the director makes that friend and his sister modern-day refugees. Peter Sellars turns Mozart's last opera into a modern message of humanity in the face of terror 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Belson, a modern-day tech founder, would likely have remembered the Jobs example and, like the Google and Facebook founders, would have made sure to never let the board of directors get too much control. 'Silicon Valley' Recap: Should Gilfoyle Actually Be Pied Piper's C.E.O.? 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z But of all the young novelists described as our ‘modern-day Austen,’ Emma Straub may have the greatest claim to that title. Perspective | Is it too late to read your first Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z This modern-day take on the Oedipus myth follows Seattle's evolution from sleepy seaport to software capital, as a modern "King of Search" meets his match in one of the most memorable grifters in contemporary literature. 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z Can a modern-day rock star appear in two locations at the same time? Bret Michaels sues concert promoter for $5 million 2010-08-19T06:03:00Z First dates, tourists and lunch-hour scavengers jockey for trendy food in the narrow corridors of this modern-day mess hall. Finding Yoko Ono’s New York 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Those of you with more to prove will want to drop the words 'anapestic tetrameter' and call it a modern-day Canterbury Tales or even The Wasteland. Summer reads - best book to share: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff 2013-07-22T15:04:00Z I was there in January, but even the chilly and overcast weather couldn’t conceal the artsy appeal of my accommodations, where the past and modern-day collided in an intriguing snapshot — much like the destination itself. In Varazdin, a Thriving Arts Scene Emerges 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Reddit is a modern-day canary in the coal mine for the people of Appalachia – a region of the United States being disproportionately affected by the opioid epidemic. How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z In many ways, their work resembled that of modern-day cooking show contestants who are presented a handful of seemingly incompatible ingredients, arbitrary restrictions and a punitive time frame in which to whip up a feast. Review: Donizetti’s ‘La Favorite,’ a Rare Concert Performance in French at Caramoor 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z But Chazelle, coming off three Oscar wins for "Whiplash," succeeded in making his modern-day, millennial spin on the genre, which has won rave reviews from critics. Director Chazelle crafts modern millennial musical in 'La La Land' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z But the astute depiction of modern-day teenage culture and pitch-perfect ensemble cast moves “American Vandal” beyond the clever conceit and into the realm of masterful comedy. How an Egotistic Basketball Star Grounds ‘American Vandal’ Season 2 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z For no particular reason, we’re still meant to consider him a rebel and, to up the ante, a modern-day Rama, hero of the Indian epic “The Ramayana.” Review: ‘Baaghi,’ a Bollywood Rebel Tale in Search of a Cause 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z In modern-day Moscow, supernatural creatures battle each other, some taking the side of the dark and some of the light. Review | ‘Dracula’ brought vampires into the limelight. Let’s talk about the best literary blood suckers since. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z His previous novel, “Nutshell,” was a modern-day retelling of “Hamlet” from the point of view of an indecisive fetus. Review | The robot revolution is coming: Will there be any room left for us? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z This fantastical writer, who completed her first, acclaimed novel at the age of 18, sows her modern-day stories in the fertile ground of ancient myths and fables. Review | Helen Oyeyemi’s ‘Gingerbread’ recipe: Fairy tales with a dash of surrealism 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Particularly striking is the rapid conversion Christianity made in the east—right into modern-day China. Brilliant threads 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z “Lela is the modern-day Lily,” said Robert Burke of Robert Burke Associates, the New York luxury consulting company. ‘Nothing Says Chic Like Matching Your Drink to Your Dress’ 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Much of it is a traditional, high-minded form of royal court music that, ironically, modern-day enthusiasts of electronic dubstep or even prog rock are best equipped to appreciate. Dip your toe into gamelan music with Gamelan Pacifica and guest artist Darsono 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Now near 40, Mr. Miller is playing a modern-day Sherlock Holmes in the CBS drama “Elementary,” Thursdays at 10. Breakout Actors of the New Television Season 2012-09-09T04:09:03Z It emerged last autumn that BBC executives wanted Evans to take over from Chiles on Fridays on the modern-day version of Nationwide. That Friday feeling again for Chris Evans as BBC makes him The One Show host for one day a week 2010-04-12T20:01:00Z “English National Opera is staging a modern-day version of ‘La Bohème’ in which the lead female character is a heroin user rather than a consumptive.” Classical Music This Week: Impossible Sounds, a Piano Star and Birthdays 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z So, despite modern-day skepticism, exorcism remains a common practice of Christians around the world. Exorcisms have been part of Christianity for centuries 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z We also like novels of class lines and family history, one set in Los Angeles and the other a riff on “Mrs. Dalloway” set in modern-day Philadelphia. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z In this “modern-day Herland,” the local Chevy dealership “tried to tempt people to a weekend sale with the promise of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies,” Rosin says, adding, “What man would fall for that?” Men aren’t ending 2012-09-11T17:56:00Z "Hip-hop is rock 'n' roll to a lot of people around the world, right now," said Jones, explaining the absence of the modern-day equivalents of original performers Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan or Paul Simon. 2010-02-02T10:10:00Z Pripyat, a hastily evacuated Soviet city, was ravaged by looters and left as a modern-day ghost town. Overlooked gems in Ukraine’s capital city 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z A modern-day novelty hit, “#Selfie” is the rare pop song that features no actual singing or rapping, just talking. Music Review: The Chainsmokers Perform ‘#SELFIE’ at Highline Ballroom 2014-04-15T21:37:24Z His book takes that “stunningly compressed emotional arc,” as he puts it, as a blueprint for a modern-day Daphne living in San Francisco. Two New Books Look at Mythology With Fresh Eyes 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z But no matter where the fictional story is set or when it arrives, this retelling of a Shakespeare classic by a modern-day Chicano clown is a delightful mash-up of curiously compatible cultural sensibilities. Delightful 'El Henry' is a multicultural mash-up 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Interestingly, the debate further segues into a discussion about a modern-day golfing controversy. Silk 2011-03-01T08:00:02Z Set in the Philippines, this novel raises provocative questions about history and hypocrisy as it follows two women with dueling modern-day film scripts about a colonial-era massacre. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Built by our own megalomaniacs who consider themselves modern-day nobility. Fontainebleau: A Forgotten Treasure 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The Russos envisioned “The Winter Soldier” as a modern-day upgrade of espionage thrillers like “Three Days of the Condor,” and the studio responded strongly. ‘Avengers,’ the Most Lucrative Movie Franchise Ever, Is Wrapping Up. Why? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z A modern-day historian described the hunting run in another more relatable way: White fortune hunters and settlers took his people’s grocery stores. With "The American Buffalo," Ken Burns connects an icon of the natural world to our nation's history 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z Favourite gadget: Bond's in-car defibrillator, which is used to restart his heart after LeChiffre poisons him at the poker table, is a realistic essential item of kit for a modern-day spy. My favourite Bond film: Casino Royale 2012-10-01T16:29:02Z The ambitious work reimagined the ancient Greek epics of Homer in modern-day St. Lucia. Derek Walcott, Nobel laureate whose poetry celebrated the Caribbean, dies at 87 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z In 1978 Ms. Pomerantz wrote a whimsical article for The New York Times in which she envisioned how a modern-day book publisher might respond to a submission from Mother Goose. Charlotte Pomerantz, Inventive Children’s Book Author, Dies at 92 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The latter in particular raised the cathedral’s profile for modern-day tourists from China to the United States. The bells, the bells: Notre-Dame's crumbling gargoyles need help 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z “It’s very hard to catch the eye in a modern-day setting,” she said. The Carpetbagger: The Sound and the Feel of Oscar-Worthiness 2011-02-16T23:28:08Z In “Godspell,” adapted from the off-Broadway musical, a bunch of modern-day New Yorkers decide to become disciples of Jesus and form an acting troupe that performs parables from the Gospel of Matthew. From mall cops to sex buddies: 14 times movies about the same thing came out at the same time 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z From the well-born Victorian adventurers to the modern-day action sports icons, those who needlessly put their lives in danger have captured the imagination and intrigue of the coddled, comfortable classes. “Deadliest catch”? Not even in the top three 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The goal of this April event was to promote her new book, “Fascism: A Warning,” a 304-page history of authoritarian regimes with a not-so-veiled modern-day relevance. ‘The kids, they love Madeleine Albright’: How a veteran diplomat got turned into a millennial icon 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z From there it’s a straight line to Discovery ID, Nancy Grace, and other modern-day purveyors of true crime hysteria. 5 things you may not know about death penalty 2013-04-03T13:05:00Z Having an awareness of these differences and making sure they are addressed is where the challenge lies for modern-day mixed couples. “Killers of the Flower Moon’s” central love story illustrates the pitfalls of interracial dating 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z As if that weren’t enough, they have been counting down the days to a television adaptation streaming on Netflix beginning July 3 that will offer a modern-day update. The Baby-Sitters Club Taught Me Everything I Needed to Know About Literary Fiction 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z It was a modern-day friendship, built upon random memes sent to the masses; she expected no more of it. How AirDrop requests have become Gen Z’s version of passing notes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Reading these 10 stories set in modern-day Tokyo makes me feel as though I’ve returned home after a long journey. Read Your Way Through Tokyo 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Though the openness of modern-day Broadway to more free-form musicals serves "Candide" well, it is still a challenging show to mount. Theater preview: The fall and rise of 'Candide' 2010-05-20T20:13:00Z Either a modern-day Jesus or a fraud, Dean embarks on a wholly original adventure that is by turns moving, funny and surreal. 2010-01-29T08:31:00Z She injects sisterly rivalry and social/religious division into the mix, framing the 17th-century story with that of two modern-day girls reading the storybook, and conducting the proceedings with unshowy restraint. This week's new films 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z The surface layer of “Yellowstone” is part modern-day Western, part family business saga — a kind of cowboy “Dynasty” with some dark-cable ambitions. Review: ‘Yellowstone’ Wrangles Daddy Issues on the Range 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Best play was "Constellations", which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in January to rave reviews, while best director went to National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner's modern-day adaptation of the Shakespeare play "Timon of Athens". Olympic opening ceremony wins UK theatre award 2012-11-26T12:45:36Z To mark the tin anniversary of her cookbook, Hesser, who is now the CEO of Food52, updated the modern-day classic for a new contingency of home cooks living in a world impacted by a pandemic. Cook better chicken with these classic techniques from The New York Times 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Out next month in Britain, it holds up an unsparing mirror to the cosmetic scars and ugly snarls of modern-day Tinseltown. Why no future Hollywood star could ever match Lauren Bacall's allure 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z The movie ends up jumping around haphazardly from Clint’s arc to Present’s, trying to honor both equally and balance the traditional Christmas carol template with its modern-day twists and reversals. ‘Spirited’ Review: A Whole Lot of Humbug 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Victory for Carey would have made him the only three-time winner and hopes had been high, with the Australian novelist believing it his best work and Motion praising him as a modern-day Dickens. Howard Jacobson wins the Booker for The Finkler Question 2010-10-12T20:48:00Z Although it still offers plenty of nostalgic charm, the mart is enjoying a modern-day revival, as it welcomes design-driven boutiques and destination restaurants. Heads Up: A Los Angeles Market Gets New Life 2010-12-31T19:55:00Z And the slack attempts to relocate this den of junkies to modern-day Seattle aren't persuasive. 'The Connection' links addicts, their audience 2011-08-11T21:04:04Z Customs Service in Philadelphia; and Richard Walter, a forensic psychologist who is one of the pioneers of modern-day criminal profiling. Murder on the menu 2012-11-22T14:00:00Z He was a consummate author, creating the modern-day thriller, and was one of the most visionary storytellers of our time. Tom Clancy, U.S. master of spy thriller novels, dies at 66 2013-10-03T00:08:15Z De Blasio has declared his intention to shut down the industry, saying it’s inhumane to keep horses in modern-day Manhattan. Liam Neeson Chides NYC Mayor on Horse Carriages 2014-02-28T23:09:07Z Explicit shows like "13 Reasons Why," "Euphoria" and "The Idol" ushered us into the modern-day era of mature and graphic depictions of sex scenes of fictional minors in high school or young adulthood. Gen Z doesn't want explicit shows. So who are all these sexy teen dramas for then? 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Justified from the beginning has been a kind of modern-day Western. Justified Watch: It Beats Angry 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Hauser, a onetime advertising and marketing executive, formed the Manhattan Transfer in 1972 as a modern-day throwback to the intricate vocal harmonies of an earlier era. Tim Hauser, founder of the Grammy-winning vocal group Manhattan Transfer, dies at 72 Bioh’s salon isn’t an abstraction or callback; it’s a Black business set in modern-day Harlem. When a Seat in the Theater Means a Seat in the Salon 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Frequent narration kept passengers’ attention amid the consistent beauty, exploring topics like the region’s original, Native habitants, European settlers, and modern-day attractions like Smith Tower. Seattle summer staycation: 3 day trips to take from the Seattle waterfront 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Gomes said the "social fractures" of the colonial era were still visible in Brazilian society and modern-day examples of corruption included companies not paying their taxes. Film about colonial era explains modern Brazil, director says 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z While honing his music, which he often self-produces and records at home, Valee has turned odd hobbies into odd jobs, toeing the line between eccentric and modern-day Renaissance man. Valee, Kanye West’s New Signee, Is a Rapper Who Just Might Build You a Koi Pond 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z We managed to squeeze in a few modern-day attractions along our route, but ultimately we all ended up embracing the dinosaur culture right along with Theo. On a dino crusade in Utah, tracks don’t always follow the map 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Savas doesn’t write much about modern-day Istanbul, but menace lurks around the corner of her prose. With Sensuality and Coolness, a Debut Novel Considers the (Partial) Truths We Tell About Ourselves 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Bush and Clinton when Bush was asked to name one of his modern-day heroes, and pointed to Fauci. Anthony Fauci was ready for this. America was not. 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Megha Majumdar’s propulsive debut novel, set in modern-day India, begins with a terrorist attack and then follows the lives of three characters. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Shifting “The Comedy of Errors” to the modern-day Middle East and setting it to music earned “Oh, Brother!” a total of three performances on Broadway in 1981. Brushing Up Your Shakespeare, By the Book or Not 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The modern-day commercial-movie-theater experience has become unpleasantly wedded to the practice of preceding the feature with 20 minutes of commercials and film trailers. Event cinema at a theater near you 2014-04-24T21:02:25Z Watch my "Salon Talks" episode with Cassandra Freeman here or read a Q&A of our conversation below to hear more about how she stepped into the role of a modern-day Aunt Viv. Will Smith's new "Bel-Air" Aunt Viv on reboot fears: "I really didn't want to let the culture down" 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z After 50 years, “M*A*S*H” holds up as a precursor to modern-day comedies that are more than just funny. Late Night Recaps the Queen’s Funeral 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z From a Victorian delight, in other words, to, well, a modern-day horror. St Pancras Chambers: no place like home 2010-05-02T20:30:00Z Racial allegories such as this are a staple of sci-fi and fantasy, and are often assumed to shine a light on modern-day society. Will Smith’s Bright: racial allegory or straight up racism? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z To level up for this special day, Salon partnered with pastry chef Meghan McGarry, who is known for putting a modern-day twist on classic desserts. Level up Valentine's Day by giving whoopie pies a red wine makeover 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The magnate who helped build modern-day Las Vegas didn't want to hold his winning hand for too long. Kirk Kerkorian dies: Hollywood legacy included philanthropy 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Still, it’s one of Netflix’s most-watched original movies ever, and unlike some of the period dramas on this list, it won’t have to strain too hard to sell voters on its modern-day relevance. Here’s How Each Best-Picture Nominee Could Win an Oscar 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” is the story of a modern-day advertising executive named Toby who meets an elderly Spanish cobbler who believes himself to be Don Quixote. ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Can Play at Cannes, Court Rules 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z This is undermined, however, by a quasi defense of the British project, or at least an attack on its modern-day opponents. A Close-Up Look at the British Men and Women Who Ruled India 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z To me, it's all like a modern-day landscape, and I just kind of marvel at it all the time. Kim Gordon on "No Home Record" and why "palatable" art doesn't affect change 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z Intentionally or not, each memoir offers its own meta-theory of modern-day celebrity by illustrating its effects on its author. The Unreality of Being a Celebrity 2011-05-16T11:00:17Z The city of Venice is such a beguiling presence in Donna Leon’s mysteries, it can eclipse the serious crimes that drive her modern-day plots. Evils Lurking Beneath a City’s Centuries-Old Canals 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Even the art world establishment has come around: Museums worldwide now embrace them as essential examples of modern-day portraiture. Show Us Your Warhol! 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The priestess then consulted with the spirits by using cowrie shells and kola nuts, rolling them like dice and interpreting their landing positions like modern-day oracle bones. In Benin, up close with a serpent deity, a Temple of Pythons and Vodun priests 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Handily the show's editors paint in some CGI arterial sprays in the signature shape of Frank Miller's artwork making each splash a modern-day version of those cartoon "POW!" Even a magical sword can't help "Cursed," a retelling of the Arthurian legend that needs honing 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Set, as the books are, in modern-day Los Angeles, "Bosch" conjures a noir-tinged L.A. that admirably avoids the clichés to present a view of the city known to its actual residents. 'Bosch' has a solid hold on the thin blue line 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Is there a moral for modern-day Britain here? What can we learn from Italy's urban utopias? 2011-08-22T11:08:13Z Ask him about his work as a journalist and he holds forth like a modern-day Marxist, railing against injustice and criticizing the mainstream news media for focusing on the ruling class instead of “regular people.” 2010-01-28T07:20:00Z In addition, modern-day Iraq was a British creation, cobbled together in 1920 out of three provinces of the collapsing Ottoman Empire. How the Dead Hand of Imperialism Continues to Influence World Politics 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z But two of the dolls’ accessories captivated modern-day American Girls and their parents alike. American Girl says the ’90s are ancient history. American girls agree. 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The show’s plot centers on a group of vampire roommates living on modern-day Staten Island. What’s on TV This Week: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ and ‘Yannick’ 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Combs’s street-meets-boardroom sensibility reflected his self-styled persona as a modern-day Frank Sinatra by way of Harlem. They laughed when Diddy launched a fashion line. Then he changed the industry. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z In a hilarious rant, she compared her modern-day dating prospects to what she might have found during the time of slavery. Leslie Jones Is Leaving ‘S.N.L.’ Here Are Her 10 Funniest Moments. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Not only do Sheridan's fictional critics "still sound plausible", but apparently they even resemble the modern-day, real-life equivalent. What to say about ? The Critic/The Real Inspector Hound 2010-07-14T16:17:00Z “Tweeting happens to be a modern-day form of communication,” he said. Breaking Up With Twitter 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Mindy Kaling’s “Never Have I Ever” TV series took viewers to the San Fernando Valley to spend time with a modern-day Indian American teenage girl. For Asian American Actors, Playing a Hot Mess Is Liberating 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Even so, the new members of its Broadway cast are still grappling with their characters, trying to play their roles as written while attuning their performances to modern-day standards and principles. ‘Network’ in an Age of Fake News and Fury 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z In 1842, a prosperous clothing salesman named Lazarus Morgenthau recorded memories of his impoverished, nomadic childhood in the territories that later became modern-day Germany. Robert Morgenthau Donates Great-Grandfather’s Diary to Jewish Archive 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The group's sound is the result of a diverse set of influences ranging from 60s beat music to modern-day noisemakers. March's best music from across the MAP 2013-04-02T15:55:27Z Perhaps you don’t need telling that self-help books, the modern-day apotheosis of the quest for happiness, are among the things that fail to make us happy. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z In Britain, with a relatively mild climate, the biggest snake is about six feet long, while in the modern-day Amazon basin, anacondas might reach 25 feet. | 'Titanoboa: Monster Snake': ?Titanoboa: Monster Snake? on Smithsonian Channel 2012-03-30T21:45:32Z She paused, then added: “Well, you could say there were a couple of modern-day shadow men in there.” Edgar Wright on ‘Last Night in Soho’ and the Trap of Nostalgia 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Born in the Serengeti, he now presides over a modern-day zoo and mulls over the nature of confinement. A Set of Brilliant Miniatures by the Author of ‘The Good Lord Bird’ 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z “Her prose manages to be at once lyrical and gritty, magical yet unsentimental, connecting a dreamworld of Ojibwe legend to stark realities of the modern-day.” Louise Erdrich Wins Library of Congress Award 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z It was partly to get round these objections that I introduced the modern-day story, in which the main character's granddaughter goes in search of his experience. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-07-06T21:43:01Z West Side Story Leonard Bernstein’s classic musical, with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, set in modern-day NYC and based on Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” L.A. theater openings, April 16-23: 'The Walking Forest' and more 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z “But I think that modern-day feminism, as culturally perceived, would not be a direct correlation of who I am.” The 2016 election inspired her to run for Congress — as an unapologetic Trump supporter 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z His last novel, “Wittgenstein Jr.,” is a funhouse version of this one; it fictionalized the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as a modern-day Cambridge professor, as seen through the eyes of his students. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The famed Chelsea nightclub and Mecca, its weekly party series, provided inspiration for this modern-day Sunday blowout. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Like her aunt, she’s a modern-day witch, even spending her free time concocting perfumes out of dead crows. ‘The Five Devils’ Review: The Scent of the Past 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Bob, for instance, is endearing and sympathetic and claims, “I was the ordinariest of slaves,” but his speech frequently rings with a kind of well-educated, modern-day eloquence that sounds anachronistic: ‘Free Men’ review: A dark mystery, a gruesome crime, a relentless chase 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z “The narratives within our modern-day media and society regarding how women should and should not look, behave and feel can be very powerful,” says the clinical psychologist Kelly Abraham-Smith, who specialises in women’s health issues. Vulva masks and labia serums: the marketing of women’s genital shame 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Commissioned by Orpheus in its “American Notes” series, the work “dwells on the complexities of modern-day Turkey with a certain introspection,” Mr. Say writes in a program note. Review: Fazil Say, Soloist, Composer and Even Conductor With Orpheus 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z The easiest way, he said, was to describe the app as a modern-day billboard. The First Family of Instagram 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z And Salman Rushdie kicks off the month on September 3, taking Cervantes to modern-day America in a Don Quixote reimagining about a mediocre spy thriller author and his imaginary, TV-obsessed, lovesick creation "Quichotte." Read this next: 6 new novels coming in September you won't want to miss 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z West is spreading his message in a time where some institutions still act like slavery never existed, and others perpetuate a modern-day version, like the prison-industrial complex does behind bars. Kanye crosses the line: The 13th Amendment is sacred, especially when all are still not free 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Where does all this leave the modern-day pioneer? The Great Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison ? review 2011-01-15T17:47:01Z The reach of this modern-day salon is far beyond a string quartet or even, say, the DC Objectivist Salon, which gathers to discuss the writings of Ayn Rand. A hipster cultural salon for the short-attention-span generation 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z In the work’s most mesmerizing moment, he appears as a puppet, a modern-day Pinocchio in gold paillettes, his rigid joints slowly warming into human motion. Framing a difficult past with sequins and hip-hop But his understanding of modern-day racism illuminates this portrayal of the 19th century, and it’s not difficult to hear the contemporary echoes of Hiram’s observations. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z This involves becoming the new sheriff of a miserable town called Dirt, not far from modern-day Las Vegas. 'Rango' sells its soul for live-action 2011-03-02T22:58:00Z I was not trying to make a movie that is a commentary on modern-day America -- but certainly those questions are relevant to today in this country. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z He started seeing Ms. Seymour, and Ms. Brant took up with Ms. Sischy, whose gifts as a social connector earned her a reputation as a modern-day Gertrude Stein. The Great Interview Magazine Caper 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z But he made his scenes count as a sort of modern-day Dr. Frankenstein whose creation evolves beyond his control — and he did so in an impressive '70s coiffure. 'Avengers: Age of Ultron': James Spader and the supervillain upgrade 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Before he was an executive, he was a crucial modern-day tastemaker thanks to his Internet presence. ASAP Yams, of ASAP Worldwide, Bridged Hip-Hop Regions and Generations 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Set on a psychiatric ward in modern-day England, the free play concerns the inner lives and outward distractions of both patients and staff, where “desires are suppressed and aspirations muddled.” Theater Listings for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z It’s a modern-day myth that begins with a mundane betrayal. Theater Review: ‘Brand New Ancients’ Stars Kate Tempest in a Tragic Tale 2014-01-14T23:43:02Z Mr. Ayer said he saw an opportunity for a comic-book adaptation in the spirit of “The Magnificent Seven” or “The Dirty Dozen,” but with a modern-day panache he felt the genre was missing. Who’ll Save the World? Maybe the Misfits of ‘Suicide Squad’ 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z A historic district restored by the government several years ago, the Wide and Narrow Alleys offer a glimpse of the city’s long-forgotten imperial-era architecture combined with the commercial excess of modern-day China. 36 Hours in Chengdu, China 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Part modern-day Job, part existential Charlie Brown, part long-suffering hero out of Bernard Malamud or Ian McEwan, Golding was a man for whom things constantly went wrong, yet he resolutely soldiered on. Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z His most recent, “Refugee,” braids together stories from three different time periods: Nazi Germany, 1990s Cuba and modern-day Syria. That Huge Surprise in His Own Family Genealogy? It’s Playing out in His Novels 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Believing the author of “Chariots” was dead, Mr. Burns had asked a staffer to find the modern-day version. Suspicious Minds 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z A highlight of the exhibit is a modern-day replica of a Cyladic ship of the type used along the Aegean coastlines, built, like the original, without using nails or glue. In Transit: In Istanbul, Greek History on Display 2011-07-05T14:19:32Z Another wrinkle of modern-day relevance turns up in this stretch. Television Review: ?Prohibition?, a Ken Burns Documentary on PBS ? Review 2011-09-30T19:00:58Z Unlike nearly every other genre, after all, the modern-day rom-com seems to require several things at once. 'What If's' Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Dowse try to elevate the rom-com 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z He describes his approach as “the modern-day and the old-school coming together.” The Producer Refining Heavy Metal’s Sound 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Through the cycling shots of exteriors, interiors, skylines, and street views, Tillmans paints a portrait of modern-day architecture, showing the stylistic synchronicity in our globalized world. See Wolfgang Tillman's Architectural Photography at the Met 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z As a result, we are left in the dark over the real size and scope of modern-day slavery. If We Can’t Measure Slavery, Does It Exist? 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Describing Murray as a “modern-day trickster god,” “ The Tao of Bill Murray ” shares dozens of stories like that snowball stunt, which the author says Murray pulled outside a wine shop in Rockland County, N.Y. Follow ‘The Tao of Bill Murray’ to a better life 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z She had previously flirted with the term, telling British Vogue last spring, “I guess I am a modern-day feminist.” Who Is a Feminist Now? 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Trying to remove the historic stigma from the National Front, she has presented herself as a wholesome girl next door become modern-day Joan of Arc. Euro crisis? vultures 2012-05-17T15:25:00Z It's set in modern-day Bath and its netherworld counterpart Aquae Sulis, a place of aristocratic Regency families, oppression and magic. Science fiction – review roundup 2013-05-08T08:00:02Z So here's a modern-day primer for those who are still living in their "Hart to Hart" world: TV criminals don't have a chance against today's armchair profilers 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Flappers in speakeasies and biddies beating temperance drums: hardly seems a recipe for modern-day relevance. Television Review: ?Prohibition?, a Ken Burns Documentary on PBS ? Review 2011-09-30T19:00:58Z To give the story a contemporary context Mr. Adamo opens the opera with a group of five modern-day believers, called Seekers, who are on an archaeological dig in the Holy Land. Music Review: Mark Adamo’s Opera Makes a Wife of Mary Magdalene 2013-06-20T22:14:00Z But I think the lines are now being drawn between slavery, colonialism, and the modern-day reality of white privilege and how it connects to all of those injustices in the past. David Oyelowo on fighting the legacy of colonialism and being told to just "shut up, make movies" 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Instead of thinking of Axe men as modern-day James Bonds, they take one sniff of the stuff and immediately assume the person waring it was a backwards baseball cap-wearing dude-bro. Axe Body Spray Isn't Selling Crazy Sex Any More 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Jennings took a few moments recently to discuss his unexpected Grammy nomination, his run on “Jeopardy!” and that modern-day peril of celebrity social media. Seattle’s Ken Jennings has had quite a year. On Sunday, he could win a Grammy 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z The collection was a modern-day spin on styles of the old West, with a color palette of dusky reds and oranges that accented earth tones and textured plaid. Dior elevates festival fashion with Los Angeles-inspired Cruise collection 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z “Revenge,” on ABC, which is a modern-day “Dallas” or “Dynasty” set in the Hamptons, keeps a straight face as it wallows in soapy suspense and arch satire. Television Review: ‘Dallas’ Is Updated in New TNT Series 2012-06-12T22:27:52Z But using reductive caricatures — complete with phlegmatic performances — to send that message is perhaps not the best way, because it turns something with modern-day implications into distant allegory. 'The Notebook' is a chilling but reductive World War II tale 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z He also collected postcards from the public responding to his requests for observations of local bird populations, a precursor to modern-day birdsourcing. Antiques: Digitizing Scrapbooks of the First Bronx Zoo Director 2013-08-29T21:12:11Z Through interviews with officials, with Anderson’s family, and with the family of a teenager who was a passenger in the vehicle used in the attack, the documentary examines modern-day hate and intolerance. What’s on TV: ‘Under the Autumn Moon’ and ‘Haunting of Hill House’ 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Mortensen says the film is much more than a modern-day “Mr. Mom.” In ‘Captain Fantastic,’ Viggo Mortensen found more than a modern-day ‘Mr. Mom’ 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z My first volunteers were all Asian women, and I was like, “Oh, my God, this is the sickest moment, we are a modern-day sweatshop.” Kristina Wong’s Pandemic Story: Sewing With Her Aunties 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z The Abramsky home was for many years a magnet for socialist and Jewish intellectuals, a modern-day salon full of warmth and intellectual camaraderie. Chimen Abramsky obituary 2010-03-18T18:38:00Z The movie was fashioned as a modern-day fairy tale of a young woman, Anastasia Steele, who falls for a man she thinks is her Prince Charming, only to discover his dark side. 'Grey' area: For a provocative film, many shades of marketing 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The first is Salman Rushdie’s “Quichotte,” a reworking of “Don Quixote” set in modern-day America. Elton John’s Bookshelves Are Meticulous. Just Ask Him. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Yes, there are archival recordings; yes, knowledgeable people speak reverently about the otherwise forgotten geniuses of the genre; yes, contemporary artists like Béla Fleck are present as the modern-day torchbearers. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z So this book is about monster stories, which range from classic fairytales and myths to modern-day horror stories and even true crime stories. "We all want to be the final girl": Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Penny Woolcock directs a new production set in modern-day Asia and featuring projections and aerialists. Classical & Opera Music Listings for Jan. 1-7 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Fiennes filmed the movie in Belgrade, with the Serbian parliament building serving as a modern-day Roman Senate. Fiennes modernizes Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" 2011-02-14T17:14:27Z A multimedia experience allows visitors to play modern-day farmer. Smithsonian celebrates invention in American history museum’s new wing 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Caplan, a wisecracking actress better known for such modern-day comedies as “Mean Girls,” “Party Down” and “The Class,” embraced the unexpected opportunity to play a strong woman from a past era. ‘Masters of Sex’ Recalls the Work of Masters and Johnson 2013-07-27T05:49:04Z Getting the building into shape required a modern-day barn raising. This little butcher shop in rural West Virginia is turning out world-class burgers 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Weren't we America's allies in its modern-day military ventures, rather than its victims? Kevin Macdonald: "I didn't understand Hollywood" 2011-03-17T21:30:00Z But how to adapt Renaissance architecture for modern-day mass tourism? The Taming of Italy’s Most Popular Museum 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z According to History.com, the Greek saint gave away his wealth and traveled the countryside of what is now considered modern-day Turkey. The history of Santa Claus, his red suit and stand-out pop culture moments 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z In one episode, tolling bass tones and thick chords suggest a modern-day New York version of Mussorgsky’s “The Great Gate of Kiev” — call it “The Tollbooths of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge.” Music Review: Simone Dinnerstein Gives New Twists to Classics 2014-01-24T20:42:00Z The sound of the fortepiano is more varied across the registers than that of a modern-day grand, here featuring a harplike middle register, a lower range with a satisfying burr and a sparkling top octave. American Classical Orchestra Ends Its Season in ‘Prague’ 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z I would love to do a modern-day TLC. Becky G Had No Idea She Was Auditioning For 'Power Rangers' 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z I consider myself an environmentalist, yet last weekend I spent five hours in a car dealership going through the rigamarole of getting a new car – arguably one of the most polluting devices in modern-day life. How I deal with the unbearable hypocrisy of being an environmentalist 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z As a singer, his slinky falsetto has been mimicked by a number of descendants, with Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age perhaps the most prominent modern-day practitioner. Jack Bruce, Cream bassist, dies at 71 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Last season — which became a point of parting between devoted and former “American Horror Story” fans — was about a coven of witches in modern-day New Orleans. ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’: Carny cornballs Their survival, their failure and their resilience in modern-day America are the subjects of “There There,” this complex knot of a novel by a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. Review | What does it mean to be Native American? A new novel offers a bracing answer. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z These revolutionaries still wear frock coats and breeches, but when they open their mouths, sound and sense intermix with the modern-day flash of a Kanye West or Drake track. Through 'Hamilton,' the Founding Fathers might once again make history 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z In his new novel, “Agent Running In the Field” — set in modern-day Britain — the main character, Nat, is called out by his daughter about his lack of ethics. Tinker, Tailor, Writer, Spy 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z The modern-day fable stars Wyatt Russell as Dud, a sunny former surfer in Long Beach, Calif., whose mojo tanked after a snake bit him in Nicaragua and his father vanished into the Pacific. The Week in Arts: Tom Hiddleston in ‘Betrayal’; Beck Takes the Stage in Queens 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Ridley Scott is taking a break from biblical plagues to focus on a modern-day plagues. Ridley Scott Is Creating an Ebola TV Series 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Like a modern-day Pygmalion, Goude reworks the women till their perfection becomes supernatural. Paris retrospective celebrates ad man Goude 2011-11-11T12:46:03Z For instance, when asked how the discussion of infinity at the beginning of the show relates to modern-day relationships, he paused before slowly building a formulation. Simon McBurney Discusses His ?Disappearing Number? 2010-07-02T08:19:00Z There are a handful of smart would-be singles: “Fool’s Gold” and “Where Do Broken Hearts Go” are seamless pop perfection, and “Girl Almighty” sounds like a pretty decent modern-day Monkees song, but it’s an outlier. One Direction made it to ‘Four,’ which is more of a feat than ‘Four’ itself It’s complicated between modern-day independent rock bands and their ’90s progenitors, whose poorly postured shadows loom over any lyrics that might be considered “wry” or guitars called “jagged.” Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz Adds Pop Hooks to the Band’s Sharp Edges 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z In one self-conscious moment, the Ain’t Rights talk about eschewing the modern-day promotion of social media, even if it means relegating themselves to obscurity. How D.C. punk influenced one of the year’s most anticipated horror movies 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z His modern-day counterparts - the kind with deep pockets - are going all out to offer extravagant, star-studded weddings to their own Juliets. Lavish weddings the norm for celebrity Romeos 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z All the characters—from a modern-day Penitente and a child suffering from the evil eye to a boa-constrictor breeder—seek transformation and to resolve the messiness of their lives. This Week in Fiction: Kirstin Valdez Quade 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z "Undine" recasts a myth in a modern-day setting. "Undine" is an exquisite, romantic reimagining of an underwater myth using a phallic CGI catfish 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z In some cases, the net effect of this lack of wit in modern-day feuds is a lengthening of their shelf life — in the public’s mind at least. Circa Now: Feuding in 140 Characters 2014-04-25T22:22:54Z After that, a trip to Boston introduces them to the modern-day tea party and has them participating in a Revolutionary War re-enactment. Summer TV: Quick takes on ‘The Last Ship,’ ‘Legends’ and more Gaps between ranks still exist and so could be explored in modern-day drama but, in 21st-century situations, the editorially toxic subjects of racism and snobbery towards so-called "chavs" are more likely to arise. The Paradise: do viewers really need more period drama? 2012-09-25T14:22:53Z A National Book Award finalist, this blistering classic spins the story of Noah’s Ark through a witty, modern-day tale of climate change, producing a shattering vision of an apocalyptic future. 50 notable works of fiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z They Are the World Ostensibly a monument to Brooklyn, this store is, like so many things in modern-day Williamsburg, tourist bait. Critical Shopper: Shopping at Space Ninety 8, the Urban Outfitters Concept Store in Williamsburg 2014-04-09T21:00:29Z Such rides are also prime opportunities for the modern-day matchmaker. With Via, Sharing More Than Just a Ride 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Saint Nicholas, who lived in the fourth century in what is modern-day Turkey, is one of the most revered saints in Russian Orthodoxy. Thousands throng to bow to St Nicholas relics in Moscow 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z “It has modern-day resonance,” Deadwyler said, adding that she has discussed the story with her son because “it would be neglectful for me to not talk to him about the possibilities.” Danielle Deadwyler Is the Beating Heart of ‘Till’ 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z In a modern-day “Antigone,” Shamsie examines the competing identities and loyalties of British Muslims. New in Paperback: ‘Prairie Fires,’ ‘Cockfosters’ 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z But while Paul tries to shut down that unauthorized site, phony Twitter and Facebook accounts using his name start offering comments about the modern-day descendants of Amalek. Book World Joshua Ferris’s ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’ The car, which contains an early version of the modern-day navigation system, is described as being in excellent condition. Looking for a car? Try 007's Aston Martin 2010-10-27T15:46:00Z It’s Perry, now in his eleventyseventh mediocre sitcom in the post-Chandler years, who flails about in the pilot episode as this modern-day Oscar. ‘The Odd Couple’: Not nearly odd enough by today’s standards 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Phnom Penh is the seat of modern-day power. In Cambodia, Along the Path to Something Profound 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Want to see a modern-day actress swan about as Ali MacGraw? As "Godfather" origin stories go, "The Offer" is so bad it's criminal 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z How might modern-day magnates translate the look of their home or office into the afterlife? The Past and Future of Cemeteries 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z In a sense, he’s angling to become the modern-day “Colbert Report” to Mr. Noah’s “Daily Show.” Trevor Noah Sticks Up for N.F.L. Players in War of Words with Trump 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Gilroy goes further, describing the film as a modern-day Horatio Alger story. Jake Gyllenhaal wants you to feel disturbed after watching him in ‘Nightcrawler’ Meanwhile, US Arab comic Dean Obeidallah compared Baron Cohen's portrayal to blackface portrayals of African Americans by white actors, labelling The Dictator "a modern-day minstrel show". Sacha Baron Cohen criticised over 'negative stereotypes' of Arabs 2012-05-17T11:19:56Z The way it succeeds is because Quinn sprinkles modern-day analogies to make the past come alive. Colin Quinn has fun with the US Constitution 2013-05-14T12:11:37Z My conversation with Circus Clown Rico raises one of the key issues in modern-day clowning: the split between circus clowns and clowns who do magic at children's parties or in shopping malls. The wisdom of clowns 2011-03-17T07:59:00Z A new exhibition of ancient clay tablets discovered in modern-day Iraq is shedding light for the first time on the daily life of Jews exiled to Babylon some 2,500 years ago. Ancient tablets reveal life of Jews in Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z NASA's research in controlled environment systems to grow plants was foundational in developing the modern-day vertical farm sector — indoor farms that grow crops in stacks without soil under the purple haze of LEDs. Space agriculture boldly grows food where no one has grown before 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z His wife and surviving family are interviewed, along with students, ex-colleagues, modern-day fighters and Bruce worshippers, some throwing some moves at the camera and imitating the classic high-pitched howl-whine. I Am Bruce Lee – review 2012-07-19T21:00:01Z A professor of history makes a connection between the Confederacy and modern-day conservatives, arguing that democracy has always thrived on inequality. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z The Messners joined scientists in the Galápagos for a week in 2019, shadowing studies of the remaining giant tortoises and the modern-day threats they face. Two Children’s Books Offer Hope for the Environment 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z It crisscrosses between the cities of Haifa, Jaffa, Acre, now mixed Arab-Jewish cities in modern-day Israel. Slumdog movie star turns defiant Palestinian girl 2010-10-07T21:54:00Z After all, the sexual antics of the modern-day campus offer such fertile ground for a social novelist — everyone from Tom Wolfe to Bret Easton Ellis has drunk that up — but Perrotta remains disappointingly demure. The most pleasant novel about pornography you’ll ever read 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Mesopotamia, part of modern-day Iraq, was among the earliest civilizations. Amid jihadi gains, priceless Iraqi artefacts hit black market 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Oh, and the villain of the piece is a developer who wants to build a big-box chain store — the very essence of modern-day shopping, which is in turn the very essence of modern-day Christmas. Television Review: ‘The 12 Disasters of Christmas’ on Syfy 2012-12-07T23:03:24Z Designers were tasked with creating a look for modern-day air travel with upcycled materials provided by Southwest Airlines. ‘Project Runway’ works with human trafficking survivors 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Not merely a saga of coked-up trashy hoods, it's a modern-day parable on loyalty, betrayal and the corrupting influence of power. Imported gems 2010-04-20T12:59:00Z But foremost among his achievements is the creation of Ora, a modern-day Scheherazade and icon of the mourning mother — even though she isn't sure that her son is dead. 'To the End of the Land': A mother's grief and a country's corrosive burden 2010-10-06T23:08:00Z The miracle’s second leg links WIMPs to the modern-day mass of the Higgs boson. Physics confronts its heart of darkness: Cracks showing in dominant explanation for dark matter 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z I barely have the heart to tell you that this modern-day take on Don Quixote is merely a story within another story. Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a shambling ‘Don Quixote’ for our deceptive era - The Washington Post 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z It includes mini-lessons and activities emphasizing ancient Athens and the colonial United States, as well as modern-day activism, integrated with the museum’s exhibitions. At This Museum Sixth Graders Learn Lessons in Democracy 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Frances Ha, by contrast, is about a young woman in modern-day New York puzzling over her future. How black-and-white movies made a comeback 2013-06-29T23:05:47Z It made being back on modern-day Earth feel like a treat. Doctor Who: The Lodger ? Series 31, episode 11 2010-06-12T18:30:00Z The show was to be a kind of modern-day “I Love Lucy,” grounded in their love of canonical duos like French and Saunders and Nichols and May. Kate Berlant and John Early’s Escape from Comic Realism 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z One of the most arresting parts of this unsettling series is its opening credits, a sort of warped Sistine Chapel sequence depicting modern-day figures crying helplessly to the heavens. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Laws of Human Nature, Interrupted -- or, The Case of the Disappearing Bagel 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z And yet this, the director ruefully explains, is just the reality of much of modern-day Romania. 'Beyond the Hills has no obvious villains': Cristian Mungiu 2013-03-07T17:35:43Z The contents of the exhibition, “Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds,” were mined by a commercial treasure hunter and not according to academic methods, a practice that many archaeologists deplore, equating it with modern-day piracy. Treasures Pose Ethics Issues for Smithsonian 2011-04-24T21:56:54Z Armadillo Denmark, Rest of the world 100 mins Janus Metz Despite all this technique, Armadillo faithfully records the routines of modern-day military deployment. Armadillo ? review 2011-04-07T21:00:01Z But I wanted to see what slow travel means to people all over the world and what long-distance trains still have to offer the modern-day traveller. ‘The Godfather of trains’: the Trans-Mongolian from Moscow to Beijing 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Fiennes, who directs and stars in the modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's 17th century tale of a renegade Roman general, said the tragedy is a timeless political thriller about power, manipulation and public unrest. Shakespeare could have been filmmaker, Fiennes says 2011-02-14T17:14:46Z Based on the same book as the 2008 film “Gomorrah,” the show is a brooding, propulsive, totally addictive story of rival gangster clans in modern-day Naples, shot like a Brutalist chiaroscuro nightmare. ‘Fortitude,’ ‘Bosch,’ ‘Gomorrah’: TV Crime Never Sleeps 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Other modern-day Marvel films can feel like endless reiterations of the same underlying aesthetic, interchangeable and structured around similar plot arcs and punchlines. How will "Evil Dead" and "Spidey" director Sam Raimi fare in the MCU? It'll swallow his soul 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s a lyric that typifies Mr. Paisley’s ecumenical instincts, striking a compromise between old-fashioned regional pride and modern-day racial sensitivity. Arts & Leisure: Brad Paisley?s Country Underground 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z “Parasite,” a darkly comic thriller set amid clashing economic classes in modern-day South Korea, made Oscar history on Sunday as the first foreign-language film to win best picture. Perspective | ‘Parasite’ upset means progress. But is it a revolution? 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Our modern-day understanding of food safety allows us to eat medium-rare meat, pinkish poultry and crunchy vegetables where even just a few decades ago they would have been unthinkable. Seven ways you're ruining your food, and why knife skills are life skills | Adam Liaw 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Some of his best films — the modern-day screwball “What’s Up, Doc?” Poitier and Bogdanovich: The Defiant Ones 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z It becomes easy — and honestly, sometimes really satisfying — to narrativize perceived hosts' slights like a modern-day parable. Why are we SO obsessed with stories of hospitality gone wrong? 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z She was rather bluntly expressing her view that a modern-day Tatiana would surely have an affair with Onegin once he finally declares his love. Russian Diva to Open Third Met Season in a Row 2013-09-16T14:39:33Z “I acknowledge my customers for being modern-day revolutionaries without picking up a gun or having to throw a grenade or pick up a picket sign and carry it down the street,” she said. Black Vegans Step Out, for Their Health and Other Causes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Did Noguchi see Rogers as more than a celebrity — even, perhaps, as a modern-day goddess? Ginger Rogers bust, sculptor’s letter displayed at National Portrait Gallery It's a departure from the coming-of-age films of the early aughts that centered on modern-day South Asian assimilation into western communities. Beyond brown shame: Refreshing "India Sweets and Spices" moves past struggles of hyphenated identity 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Vivaldi's Il Gran Mogol will receive its modern-day premiere in January. Vivaldi flute concerto discovered 2010-10-07T09:26:00Z The idea of the mailbox as a modern-day sewing basket proves to be surprisingly profound, perhaps because snail mail is, much like the sewing basket, on the verge of obsolescence in many households. Last Chance: Folk Art Museum Quilts Show Has New Perspective on Form 2013-12-26T21:42:29Z The contrast between the pavilion and the gardens speaks to the many multicultural influences in modern-day Mexico, while the flexibility of the structure reflects the constant change occurring in cities physically, socially, and culturally. Mexican Architect Frida Escobedo Creates a Flexible Pavilion at the V&A 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Resetting “The Arabian Nights” in modern-day Cairo, “Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story” presents an environment of oppressive politics and repressed women. | 'Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story': A TV Host Seeks Fluff, but Real Life Intrudes 2011-08-11T22:45:54Z “As a result, he could write about people who came from money and made money like a modern-day Trollope.” Michael Thomas, Writer and Bête Noire of the Moneyed Class, Dies at 85 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z But the real star of the behind-the-scenes team may be costume designer Melissa Trn, who has had a great deal of tongue-in-cheek fun dressing these characters as modern-day emblems of human folly. When superstar and superfan collide: It's 'Future Thinking' at South Coast Rep 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Does our conception of a modern-day ethnological museum need a dramatic rethink? When a Visit to the Museum Becomes an Ethical Dilemma 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z When construction began, the New York Times referred to the project as a “modern-day Rockefeller Center.” D.C. got everything it wanted out of CityCenterDC — except the crowds 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Travel guides presented a modern-day Underground Railroad to show black travelers which hotels and restaurants would serve them. Review: ‘Driving While Black’ opens road to civil rights 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Smith, in a statement, called Lee “the literary titan of comic books” and “our modern-day Mark Twain.” Stan Lee’s devoted fans can mourn him at Hollywood memorial 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z A group of religious and conservative leaders says it will urge Comedy Central's advertisers not to support a proposed new cartoon that puts Jesus Christ in a modern-day context. Comedy Central chided for proposed Jesus cartoon 2010-06-03T15:34:00Z Lady Daphne Swift is about to live the dream of every Regency-era miss and not a small number of their modern-day counterparts: She’s to marry an earl. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels for November 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The British-born Bloomfield, who now lives part time in Santa Monica's Ocean Park neighborhood, says the failure to investigate the killings reveals a kind of "modern-day apartheid." From Prop. 8 to Joe Paterno, six contenders for feature documentary 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z In the movie, set for release Friday, the pop star and actress plays a successful modern-day author that finds herself trapped in alternate time periods, including the terrifying reality of a runaway slave. Horrors of slavery at center of Janelle Monae’s ‘Antebellum’ 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z None are films whose modern-day equivalents will, I suspect, easily emerge from the new wave of faith films. Gotta have faith: what's your relationship with God at the flicks? 2010-06-18T13:54:00Z Later, he insists that “it might have been otherwise” when considering the emergence of petroleum as the fuel of choice for the modern-day car. A History of the Energy We Have Consumed 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The only exception was after World War I, when Istria became part of Italy while the majority of modern-day Croatia became part of Yugoslavia. On Croatia’s Istria peninsula, a variety of historic influences meld into a beautiful present 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z And she also notes his passion for helping others, becoming Unicef's first celebrity ambassador and setting the modern-day model for today's charitable stars. Kaye's daughter Dena seeks to spread his legacy 2013-03-29T14:21:09Z “The Terror: Infamy” joins the prime time schedule as we're stuck in our own state of disbelief, as the modern-day internment of migrant families plays out in states around the country. The politics of Important TV: Why "The Terror" and "Our Boys" won't get the "Chernobyl" treatment 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Henrik Ibsen’s fairy tale of man’s search for self — plus trolls — arrives in a new, modern-day adaptation from the existentially oriented playwright Will Eno. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Given the attention Yuasa lavishes on these passages, it’s clear that he loves the idea of 14th-century performers rocking out like modern-day arena gods. ‘Inu-oh’ Review: Dazzling Anime Meets Medieval Epic 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z The artworks come from sites in modern-day southern Germany, the Czech republic and into Russia as far as Lake Baikal, and from France and Italy. Ice age carvings: strange yet familiar 2013-02-16T08:01:02Z Astride a white horse and garbed in an elegant cape and crown, she was compared by the press to a modern-day Joan of Arc and called the “most beautiful suffragist.” She Was More Than Just the ‘Most Beautiful Suffragist’ 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z The opera is a singspiel — the German genre of works, usually comic, that incorporate spoken dialogue — and is therefore a genetic ancestor of modern-day musical theater. Music Review: Schubert?s ?Verschworenen? at Manhattan School of Music 2012-04-01T21:50:30Z Shanbhag is an heir to Babel, and this story of a family’s moral unraveling and descent into cruelty after it comes into sudden wealth — capped by a hair-raising ending — already feels like a modern-day classic. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z To make modern-day buttermilk, you just need to culture milk. How to make buttermilk substitutes for fluffy pancakes on the fly 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z A lowly bartender in Little Italy, the butt of constant jokes who must also keep the Duke and his mobsters amused, is an apt equivalent to a modern-day jester. Music Review: An Unsteady ‘Rigoletto’ Rat Pack 2013-01-29T13:33:55Z For "California: The Tempest," playwright Alison Carey relocates Shakespeare's plot to modern-day California and shoehorns in a lot of information about our state that is tenuously related to the story. With 'California: The Tempest,' Cornerstone makes homespun magic 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The first thing that a visitor now hears after stepping off the elevator on the seventh floor is the sound of modern-day Arabic voices. In Transit Blog: Arab Institute in Paris Reopens Exhibition Rooms With Lavish Displays 2012-03-23T10:00:54Z “The Big Lie” argues, in effect, that modern-day liberalism is a not-so-distant relative of fascism, Nazism and the Confederacy. 'The Once And Future Liberal' is a blistering critique of identity politics and a fractured left 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Of course, a century of state-sponsored mass murder in pursuit of the ideal society has made modern-day readers skeptical of such places. Review | Banned in China, Sheng Keyi’s ‘Death Fugue’ is a pungent political satire 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z He and the other producers won’t reveal exactly where their modern-day “Macbeth” ends up, though a shot at the presidency isn’t a bad guess. ‘House of Cards’ Arrives as a Netflix Series 2013-01-18T15:00:00Z This novel features a modern-day historian obsessed with the sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her possibly traumatic past. New & Noteworthy, From the Science of Life to Annie Oakley 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Crawford, author of the book "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age," said Comcast is the modern-day equivalent of oil monopoly Standard Oil of 100 years ago. CEO Brian Roberts bulks up Comcast for the future 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z As Neil Powell points out in his biography of Crabbe, the low‑life characters objected to here are the very ones a modern-day reader finds most compelling. George Crabbe: The man behind Benjamin Britten 2013-06-14T17:00:01Z The film, which begins streaming Tuesday on MUBI, packs a brilliant mother-daughter story — and an important portrait of modern-day capital N’Djamena — into less than 90 minutes. New this week: ‘Turning Red,’ Ryan Reynolds and Mooski album 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z She won last year’s prize for “Flights,” a series of literary vignettes about modern-day travel. Women Dominate Shortlist for Booker International Prize 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z She matched metal elbow-length samurai gauntlets with a wool green suit for the office, saying the suit is modern-day armor for women. Fashion designer Pinto teams with Chicago museum 2012-09-14T19:52:07Z “Adaptation,” its hugely successful counterpart, about an American spy in modern-day Russia, is much lighter in tone but just as resonant in its treatment of the countries’ turbulent relationship. Russia has its own TV show like ‘The Americans’ — but it’s a comedy set during Trump’s presidency 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z SHE arrived like a modern-day Cleopatra, smiling and waving down at her adoring masses from the top deck of a trolley, her blown-out tresses fluttering in the wind. J. Lo: The Sequel 2011-05-13T23:19:29Z Striking 12 OC premiere of this modern-day musical retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Match Girl.” L.A theater openings, Nov. 30-Dec. 7: 'Northanger Abbey' and more 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z The production also raised thorny questions about how to differentiate cultural appreciation from cultural appropriation and accusations, fairly or not, that its white creators had engaged in a modern-day form of blackface. Protests Shutter a Show That Cast White Singers as Black Slaves 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z The action, restrained as it is, takes place in modern-day Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, a city depicted as rotting in its own history. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z He stands and gazes at his audience as if he were a modern-day royal, trying to look casual while holding court. Review: In ‘Köln Concert,’ Dancing Like Everyone’s Watching 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Even modern-day Ojibwa don’t understand the exact meaning of these mysterious pictures. Trekking With Wolves 2010-02-20T06:14:00Z In the first scene of the British composer George Benjamin’s extraordinary opera “Written on Skin,” a group of modern-day angels bustle about in an upstairs room on a two-tiered set. Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z A video clip shot by some modern-day Zapruder shows a middle-aged woman shouting, “You pig!” and throwing something at Packer, who, by the grace of God, survives. With ‘The Nix,’ Nathan Hill announces himself as a major new comic novelist 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Although the modern-day definition does not mention psychopathy or sociopathy – which are different psychological disorders – the term is still used by some therapists and the public to imply someone irrational, inconsiderate and beyond control. Are sexual abuse victims being diagnosed with a mental disorder they don't have? 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z He was also something of an anachronism, dashing and worldly in a way few modern-day writers of fiction are. James Salter, novelist with exquisite prose style, dies at 90 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z I know that may sound a little silly, since Raylan Givens, the hero of the FX series, has always been a modern-day cowboy. 'Justified' Recap: A Big Gun and a Land Grab 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Filling a Spotlight Beyond Broadway What is the career path of a modern-day Cinderella? Music Review: Laura Osnes at Café Carlyle 2012-06-20T20:58:53Z The television series being produced outside Damascus is about a Sufi cleric called Muhiy al-Din bin Arabi, and is set in historic Mecca, the holiest city of Islam located in modern-day Saudi Arabia. Film cameras start to roll again in Damascus studios 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z In total, the perpetrators were jailed for 79 years for modern-day slavery and fraud. My brother was held as a slave for 26 years 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z It isn't easy for studios to keep up the rigorous pace of modern-day horror franchises while still maintaining their freshness or originality. 'Paranormal Activity 5' pushed to 2015, gets a new title 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Woods’ debut novel takes place in three distinct time periods: modern-day Ohio, antebellum New Orleans, and revolutionary Haiti. 7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The characters wore modern-day civilian dress, and sets were almost nonexistent: a couple of shards of antiquity in the first half, nothing in the second. Review: Vivaldi’s ‘Catone in Utica’ Gets a Rare Staging 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z If you're not familiar with Mickle's MO, it's enough to keep in mind that his last movie was an American Gothic-style cut at modern-day cannibals, the 2013 cult hit "We Are What We Are." 'Cold in July' turns up the pulp fiction heat with Texas tale 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Falls and Hwang framed the book of the show with modern scenes set in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where modern-day reincarnations of Aida and Radames seem to find, then lose, then find each other. Drury Lane gets stuck following 'Aida' into slick, shirtless temptation 2011-03-25T20:19:30Z Thus begins a cascade of misunderstandings, deceits and reverses worthy of a modern-day Marivaux. Nathalie Baye: 'Happiness is doing a job you love' 2011-08-04T21:20:01Z Next Thing She hopes to publish her first photography book about she calls the modern-day myth of Persephone. Chuck Grant, Rising Photographer, Shoots for Kodak and Her Sister, Lana Del Rey 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z In the former, Danny Ocean or some similar suave modern-day Robin Hood improvises his way out of trouble and dances off with the loot. Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema – from Oscar-winning strategies to 007’s debt to Hitchcock 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z But this was the kind of modern-day technological minutiae that had the ability to jail me in a very specific cognitive hell. Texting Anxiety Caused by Little Bubbles 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z The latter in particular raised the cathedral’s profile for modern-day tourists from China to the United States. The bells, the bells: Notre-Dame's crumbling gargoyles need help 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z In “The Neutral Ground,” “Daily Show” producer CJ Hunt explores debate over Confederate monuments through the lens of Reconstruction-era myths that still govern modern-day narratives about racism and slavery. AFI Docs shows us where the histories are buried, and why that matters more than ever 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z His Marc Maron interview offered an unflinching look at racial inequality in modern-day America. It’s hip to be square: Hillary Clinton isn’t cool — and she shouldn’t have to be 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z We have come to accept the narrative linking the sixties to modern-day computing—but what happened to the promise of freedom that first animated the heads? The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Beatty’s crackling satire involves modern-day segregation, slavery and a host of racial stereotypes upended. Paul Beatty, Margo Jefferson win National Book Critics Awards 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Both senators described the attack in the very same way on social media: “a modern-day lynching.” Perspective | Cory Booker and Kamala Harris wade into pop culture — and experience the age-old drawbacks 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Williston is now a modern-day Deadwood or Virginia City, with higher average rents than New York or San Francisco. “The Overnighters”: The haunting true story of a 21st-century boomtown 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The Cropredy set included "Palace of Versailles" linking the French Revolution with modern-day France. History man Al Stewart digs deep for musical 'time passages' 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Manley's twist on solving modern-day loneliness is amusing, until it gets creepy. Review: Robots we hate in 'Connecting Circuits' 2013-01-16T03:21:12Z Lyrically, Baker sounds like a modern-day Esther Greenwood, rattling around inside her own bell jar, looking for clarity. Julien Baker Believes in God 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z In this vein, I don’t think Beethoven would like how so many modern-day digital hearing aids massage all kinds of processes into what the wearer hears. I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z "Penny Dreadful" is the latest U.S. television show drawing from Victorian England after shows such as NBC's "Dracula" and Fox's "Sleepy Hollow" also resurrected gothic literary characters for the modern-day audience. Actor Hartnett takes on mystery and monsters in 'Penny Dreadful' 2014-05-11T22:58:16Z “Elementary,” on CBS, is a case in point: It’s a New Age variation on the persona, positing a modern-day Holmes who is a recovering drug addict with daddy issues. The TV Watch: Benedict Cumberbatch’s ‘Sherlock’ Is Back on PBS 2014-01-17T23:38:27Z "The Babadook" is a smart, darkly drawn modern-day horror movie of monsters, memories and mothers. 'The Babadook,' smart and dark, delivers grown-up horrors 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z In this smart, sparkling modern-day Cinderella tale, an aspiring screenwriter who works as a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty realizes that her own dreams and ambitions are worth putting first in her own life. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Anna Sewell’s classic novel about a horse growing up in England is set in modern-day American West in this adaptation. Holiday movies for kids feature compelling stories new and familiar 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z A novel by a Seattle writer about a modern-day British merchant ship encountering "pirates, war lords, rebel insurgents, government agents, shadowy oil interests and enigmatic business magnates" off the Horn of Africa. Newly released books with local ties include 'Kiss'em Goodbye' and 'Out of Body' 2010-03-15T21:31:00Z But it shares with its predecessor a fondness for the subterfuges and archetypes of classic farce, which Mr. Bean translates fluently into modern-day terms. Review: Great Pretenders Pocket Laughs in ‘The Nap’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Nowhere else looks quite like modern-day Israel – the topography, the architecture, the physiognomy of its diverse population. Promise land 2011-01-28T08:52:01Z Millet begins spinning the story of Noah’s Ark through a modern-day tale of climate change to produce a shattering vision of our apocalyptic future. Review | Lydia Millet’s ‘A Children’s Bible’ is a blistering classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Wokeism is a puritanical, destructive society that has been taken over by puritans, modern-day Huguenots who look at the world in this way and it has become a kind of fascism. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z He is actually explaining the significant features of Crac Des Chevaliers – a crusader castle in modern-day Syria. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 8-12 October 2012-10-08T08:00:00Z Because Landau leaves us at the doorstep of the MTV era, we couldn't help but wonder what the modern-day version of the rock 'n' roll billboard might be. 'Rock & Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip' shows grand-scale visions 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z So where are the modern-day equivalents of these incubators of the future? Small club nights just aren't where people go to hear new music these days 2013-03-01T13:00:00Z Next Thing: She can’t reveal much, but she plans to construct a modern-day nymphaeum in Florence, Italy — a natural grotto devoted to nymphs used by Ancient Greeks and Romans. Her Hyper-Realistic Art Is a Parallel Universe 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Rippingly rich satire, the seasonal favorite features Chevy Chase as the bighearted dad, with Beverly D'Angelo as his modern-day Donna Reed, luminescent and saintly even as she sneaks a smoke in the kitchen. 'Christmas Vacation' is a loopy holiday classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z "This is a modern-day Pygmalion with many of the same discomfiting themes," complains the Times' Kate Muir. You review: The Blind Side 2010-03-29T15:01:00Z There’s a little Pete Campbell in each of these modern-day nobles. Review: ‘The Romanoffs’ Is Elegant but Frustrating 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z A growing collection of boutique wineries along Highway 94 added a modern-day element to the experience. In Campo, 25 feet from the Mexican border, California’s Old West roots remain 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z The 2009 film “Stolen,” which charged that there was modern-day slavery in West African refugee camps, ran into criticism after a screening at the Sydney Film Festival in Australia. Documentary Film Festivals Feel Push on Accuracy 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z The first of Giuseppe Verdi's three great middle-period triumphs has been shifted to New York's Little Italy, Federico Fellini's Rome, modern-day Hollywood and even the Oval Office. Sin City Duke: Met moves `Rigoletto' to Las Vegas 2013-01-23T18:25:11Z Pulling off a modern-day romantic comedy is no mean feat, and Mount, who also directs, crafts a charmer that is as crisply staged as it is well directed. 'Against the Wall' at Theatre West 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Yet “Angel Reapers” is not a mere modern-day, secular denunciation of a cult, or of sexual repression. Dance: ?Angel Reapers,? About Shakers, Returns to New York 2011-11-27T05:00:12Z Jefferson supporters ignored the story — which modern-day DNA testing later confirmed — but Callender was never in a position to gather more evidence: He drowned in the James River in 1803. 25 things you might not know about Thomas Jefferson 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z In this opera, a group of modern-day angels look back 800 years to relate the story of a love triangle that turned horrific. Classical & Opera Listings for Aug. 14-20 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Certainly, modern-day Netherlands is extremely conscious that it is now a small country, dependent on European alliances in a way that is manifestly not mirrored in increasingly Eurosceptic Britain. The full story of the British empire is yet to be told 2012-12-28T19:31:12Z This modern-day Undine is, on land, a historian who instructs wealthy tourists on Berlin’s aesthetic and political schisms over the centuries. ‘Undine’ Review: Love In and Out of the Water 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Few directors have been as influential in shaping the modern-day blockbuster, for better or worse, than Gore Verbinski. Cracking the whip: who should direct Indiana Jones 5 now that Spielberg is out? 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z This modern-day story takes place in a North Carolina town ground down by factory closings. ‘No One Is Coming to Save Us’: ‘Gatsby’ gets a revolutionary reboot 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Balu’s painting reckons with the powerful influence of the West on modern-day life in Congo. With Kuba Kings and Kehinde, a Painter Rises Above the Fray 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z There is a brief suggestion that the foundation is nothing more than a money-laundering vehicle for a shady Greek politician, but a novel set in modern-day Greece demands more than this. Skios by Michael Frayn – review 2013-04-28T11:00:02Z As he sees his schemes repeatedly backfire, Mr. Ruffalo’s rumpled character resembles a modern-day Columbo. Movie Review: ‘Now You See Me,’ Directed by Louis Leterrier 2013-05-30T21:29:58Z Keough's Stefani is a modern-day Missy Anne, the smiling bait that lures women like Zola into terrible situations and keeps her in danger by reminding them that friends stick with friends. "Zola" is a cautionary tale about Black women befriending white women 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z The mini-series will be a response to modern-day concerns We see drones. The truth is … emerging – eight things we learned from the new X-Files trailer 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Kent doesn’t try to rationalize — she simply shows all this in a horrid light, allowing viewers to understand the high cost of their modern-day lives. White Filmmakers Addressing (or Avoiding) Whiteness Onscreen 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The film gave its grade school audiences a glimpse of independent girlhood, modeling an inquisitive sense of play in the city that is hard to imagine now in our buttoned-up, fearful modern-day world. The subversive joys of Joan Micklin Silver's little-known New York City short films 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z What might be considered the first chandelier, the “corona de luz,” Azzarito says, was an “iron ring that held candles aloft,” inspired by the medieval oil-cup holders that Crusaders saw in modern-day Turkey. No crystal here: These modern chandeliers break with tradition 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z It’s wonderful that he inspires intermediaries to bring his thought to modern-day readers, but his cogent and humane work doesn’t strictly need intermediaries. He Questioned the Meaning of Life. William James Answered. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z He wanted Americans to face the legacy of slavery head on, and said the country’s aversion to doing so led to countless modern-day problems, including tensions between the police and black Americans. 1999 Rape Case Swirls Around Nate Parker and His Film ‘The Birth of a Nation’ 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Bale calls Hostiles a western with brutal, modern-day resonance. Christian Bale: 'I was asked to do a romantic comedy. I thought they’d lost their minds' 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Bessone found and collected these images — in effect, modern-day scarlet letters — from newspaper archives of the 1930s through the 1970s. Women, divorce and art that turns shame into celebration at Gavlak gallery 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z But what if the modern-day workplace no longer operates under that formula? Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z A modern-day Houston architect, played by Sean Penn in a strictly subordinate role, reflects on his troubled upbringing in 1950s Waco. Cannes: Malick's cosmic film debuts — at last — to boos, cheers 2011-05-16T14:17:20Z In a 2000 article, Variety called it “the first of the modern-day blockbusters,” writing that it had grossed nearly $200 million and saved its studio, Paramount Pictures, “which was facing imminent destruction.” 2010-01-20T06:41:00Z That sort of exchange gave them the idea for a modern-day epistolary novel about lovers named Madeline and Elliot, and their respective best friends, Emily and David, who serve as digital communication advisers. Sloane Crosley Unclasps Cloak of Secrecy About Authorship 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z But only five of the stories in this anthology are set in modern-day Britain. Best of Young British Novelists 4, edited by John Freeman – review 2013-04-16T14:14:05Z But in this novel, that characterization serves as a curious archetype for reviled idealists in modern-day Israel. In the novel ‘Judas,’ Amos Oz wrestles with Jewish attitudes toward Jesus 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z With his dad as his sidekick, this comedian fashioned himself as a modern-day Johnny Carson. 6 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Commercially, his books eclipse Harry Potter or any other modern-day publishing phenomenon -- some estimates say "A Tale of Two Cities" is the best-selling novel of all time at more than 200 million copies. Royal party and read-a-thon mark big day for Dickens 2012-02-03T15:10:56Z But applying a modern-day debate to Downton’s plot actually make much sense. A Pro-Life Episode of Downton Abbey? Not Really 2014-02-10T16:55:12Z But nestled amid these modern-day shrines to sweat and gasoline is a brand-new cultural oasis where high art reigns. Heads Up: New Art Museums Open in Charlotte, N.C. 2010-03-27T03:03:00Z Given the modern-day realities of travel, a little anxiety is inevitable and more common than ever. Perspective | Don’t panic — here’s how to handle your pre-trip anxiety 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Thomas could have paired these two and carried their relationship into future seasons, effectively making Veronica and Logan the modern-day equivalent of “McMillan and Wife.” "Veronica Mars" contends with the mystery and tragedy of growing up 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Only after he arrived in Albuquerque and saw the desert stretching to the horizon, he said, did he realize that the show, in that landscape, could be a modern-day Western. Q&A: Albuquerque’s Role on ‘Breaking Bad’ 2013-08-06T15:54:03Z The Native American flute is one of the oldest instruments in the world, and Flute Quest 2011 in Des Moines celebrates it with a combination of time-honored tradition and modern-day creativity. Cheap Fun: Flute Quest 2011 2011-08-17T22:47:04Z Written by Jill Soloway, "Transparent" is gorgeously grounded in modern-day Los Angeles, where there is nothing but third acts and endless support for both transformation and stagnation. TV Picks: 'Transparent,' 'How To Get Away With Murder,' 'Gotham' 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The latter in particular raised the cathedral's profile for modern-day tourists from China to the United States. The bells, the bells: Notre-Dame's crumbling gargoyles need help 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z It would follow a day in the life of Boromir, struggling to get along in modern-day Britain under the coalition government. After the Grumpy Cat movie, which other memes should be made into films? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z When the novel did finally appear, the uproar put a modern-day Harry Potter release party to shame, with policemen being called upon to restrain unruly customers who “verged on a riot.” ‘Les Misérables’ is not just a great story — it’s a great publishing story 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z In the show, a modern-day college team of slacker basketball players is encouraged to win a game by their girlfriends, who decide to withhold their affections until victory. 'Lysistrata Jones' to jump to Broadway this fall 2011-08-03T16:30:10Z It was a different sort of experience in that I’m a modern-day ultramarathoner. Dean Karnazes: 'When you’re struggling, that’s when you feel most alive' 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Peanuts It's ridiculous to think that the most famous newspaper comic strip of all time hasn't yet been made into a modern-day movie. Which newspaper comic strip would you like to see made as a film? 2010-06-01T16:16:00Z One book I’ve been hugely excited about is Tim Powers’s latest, “Forced Perspectives,” set in the magical underbelly of modern-day Los Angeles. Perspective | The best science fiction and fantasy of the year so far — plus what we’re looking forward to next 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Adès, an accomplished pianist, pays tribute to Chopin by writing modern-day, harmonically spiky, rhythmically fractured mazurkas that imaginatively span the keyboard. 2010-02-11T23:33:00Z Weiss — has drawn criticism and a social media backlash, with fears that a depiction of modern-day slavery would be exploitative and racially insensitive. Amazon’s ‘Black America’ Imagines a New Nation in the South 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Zoroaster, a prophet who lived in modern-day Iran, is viewed as the founder of Zoroastrianism. Freddie Mercury’s family faith: The ancient religion of Zoroastrianism 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Lucashenko is an Aboriginal Australian author and this novel is entertaining, powerful and funny about life as an Aboriginal woman in modern-day Australia. The all-time best summer books, according to our readers 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Despite my annoyance, I secretly named him Kris, for Kris Kringle, because he was a kind of modern-day Santa Claus. He Delivered for Me 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z In the film, Shields depicts Lynch as a kind of modern-day Bartleby, a living and breathing refusal of business as usual. The Profound Silence of Marshawn Lynch 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z In 1954, Newman extended the fanfare with warm, soaring strings for the studio’s new CinemaScope presentation, and that version remained through every visual iteration of the logo up to its modern-day computer animation. 'Solo' hits the big screen minus one classic 'Star Wars' moment: the Fox Fanfare 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The modern-day presidential compound is squeezed in between that palace and the mountain. Special Report: Asia Travel: A Great View of Seoul, if You Follow the Rules 2012-05-02T20:06:05Z Elementary The detective drama starring Jonny Lee Miller as a modern-day Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Watson ends its sophomore season. Thursday's TV highlights: 'Grey's Anatomy' and more 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z He's a modern-day soldier, practiced in stoicism, fluent in the kind of profane banter that passes for intimacy among young British males, and well equipped with graveyard humor. 'Black Watch' review: Battles blaze anew 2011-03-31T05:54:14Z Christmas is a time for Saxons to celebrate traditions that reach further back into their history than the city’s modern-day market. A Modern-Day Christmas Market, Transylvania-Style 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z It’s on a patchwork of subject cultures — roughly corresponding to modern-day Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen — that lay between them. See Ancient Trade Route Treasures at the Met 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The book gives a rare look into the life of a president's father - the first modern-day French president with both parents still living. Sarkozy Sr.'s tell-all book counters critics 2010-03-28T22:31:00Z Bryan Ferry’s “Love Is the Drug” is more time-appropriate with trumpet wails and skittering drums, although Ferry’s own chortles that are a modern-day development. Gatsby Soundtrack Beats On, Borne Back Ceaselessly Into Failure 2013-05-10T15:25:50Z Phillipe opened the show in little silver head horns, a cape worthy of a modern-day bloodsucker and a catsuit with studded adornment to match. The Blonds end fashion week with hot vampires, writhing trio 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z In the 12th century, under King Suryavarman II, the empire reached its apex, stretching into modern-day Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. In Cambodia, Along the Path to Something Profound 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Zimmerman’s incoherent but entertaining production uses the conceit of a rehearsal by a modern-day opera company in which the show’s romantic leads are also lovers in real life. Opera Review: Diana Damrau Takes On ‘La Sonnambula’ at the Met 2014-03-17T22:21:46Z Doug Tallamy, author of a landmark book about ecological gardening, “Bringing Nature Home,” sees a direct link between the decline of fireflies and the modern-day fixation with leaf blowing. Does your garden need a fall cleanup? Not so fast. 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z “The collision between the primitive way of living and modern-day society is traumatic to the people there,” Mr. Gandhi said, “and it’s confusing.” Q&A: Timeless Papua New Guinea 2014-05-02T17:58:57Z Faber describes the book as a "wryly comic yet deeply serious glance at the ultimate insignificance of life and politics, told through the daily lives of four friends in modern-day Paris." Milan Kundera novel 'The Festival of Insignificance' coming in English 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z It also parodies the modern-day folk fan who goes in search of a genuine expression of community identity and finds only Katy Perry karaoke. The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart ? review 2011-02-12T11:51:44Z This modern-day reimagining of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” finds a preschool assistant being pressured to marry a lab assistant whose work visa is about to expire. 10 novels we’re looking forward to this summer and fall 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z This candy emporium is packed floor to ceiling with a colorful cornucopia of modern-day favorites, nostalgic brands and imports. Wrap up New York City for your candy crush 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z But it's the modern-day segments that are the most fun to read. Winter Games by Rachel Johnson – review 2013-03-24T11:00:01Z We don’t have flying cars or murderous androids just yet, but the latter is set in the same modern-day City of Angels the Weeknd wants to flee. The Weeknd’s decade of dystopia 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z There are also contemporary pieces: Displayed on either side of the altarpiece are 12 oil paintings of what McDermott and McGough identify as modern-day martyrs. In London, a Temple Where You Can Worship at the Altar of Oscar Wilde 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z But the most recent paintings, which include the three “Old Books” and another titled “History Book Laying on a Table,” may be taken as modern-day memento mori. Art Review: Ed Ruscha at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea 2012-12-27T23:01:26Z It’s a modern-day Western that takes place in the long shadow cast by past acts of violence. Book review: ‘Black River,’ by S.M. Hulse 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z “This is an artist who I always refer to as a modern-day pirate,” said Anne Pasternak, the director of the Brooklyn Museum. Duke Riley: Grand Master Trash 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Still, Hack is reluctant to compare modern-day Aleppo with the cities ravaged in World War Two. If London were Aleppo - Buckingham Palace destroyed, 4.3 million dead or displaced 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Damon Spiegel, a founder, calls it “a modern-day classifieds for travel.” Practical Traveler: Click Here for an Offbeat Experience 2012-07-04T14:07:40Z Lewis was quite the hellraiser back in the 1950s, and modern-day fans would still like to picture him as a wild child spreading the devil's music. Jerry Lee Lewis lost for words as he turns 75 2010-09-29T09:21:00Z Deutsche Boehmen, or German Bohemia, became one of several largely German-speaking enclaves that formed along the borders of the modern-day Czech and Slovak republics under the Hapsburg monarchy, later the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Bohemia’s Secret Spot for Cross-Country Skiing 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z It's the idea that of this modern-day alternate version of Portland where the park is considered an impassable wilderness where no one ever goes. The Decemberists: The changing of the seasons 2011-01-06T21:30:00Z That’s not far off from Stanfield’s role in “Get Out,” where he’s kidnapped and reappears as a modern-day Frankenstein implanted with an old white man’s brain. Is Hollywood ready for the brilliant weirdness of Lakeith Stanfield? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z When Mr. DiBenedetto learned about Adrift, he said, he realized that partnering with Mr. Bellini would be an authentic way to tie the brand’s history to an unconventional modern-day adventure. Watches That Connect With a History of Exploration 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Softly One Saturday Morning is beautifully shot and subtly directed in a way that enables Djama to portray the reality of modern-day Algeria. New Africa: the film-maker exploring feminism in Algeria 2012-08-24T23:05:17Z This is a tradition Mr. Obama has shirked, the writers argue, making him a modern-day Neville Chamberlain. Review: In ‘Exceptional,’ the Cheneys Make Obama the Villain 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Like a modern-day Music Man, the mysterious doctor dazzles the town gossips with references to “Siddhartha” and Ovid. Review: Edna O’Brien’s ‘The Little Red Chairs’ confronts Radovan Karadzic 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Canadian novelist Michael Crummey completes the shortlist with Galore, in which a modern-day Jonah is discovered alive inside a whale. Impac prize shortlist dominated by three-strong Irish contingent 2011-04-12T12:03:59Z We flash forward to a scene of modern-day dancing, which, in turn, is interrupted by the arrival of four figures representing the forces of religion, capitalism, media and the military. Mutatis Mutandis 2010-08-02T21:16:00Z Dane Cook: Troublemaker Both prolific and polarizing, the 42-year-old comic returns to his stand-up roots to share his perspective on the absurdities of modern-day relationships — particularly those entwined in social media. Friday's TV Highlights: 'Porgy And Bess' on KOCE 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Not that it’s boring: on the contrary, talking with this old-fashioned film star and modern-day sitcom god, this part-time Trump antagonist and full-time schmoozy showbiz personality, is an entirely pleasant experience. Alec Baldwin: 'You naughty English could fold sex into dentistry' 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Yes, she’s smarter than her male captors and she doesn’t want to be “saved,” but she also acquiesces to the genre’s stipulation that she must be — no matter how resilient a modern-day woman she is. Outlander Recap: Feminism and Time Travel in a Bodice-Ripping Romance? Sure! 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z They were hailed as modern-day feminists by some and dismissed as vacuous pop princesses by others, but their success is beyond doubt. Critics pan "charmless" Spice Girls musical 2012-12-12T16:10:56Z The modern-day fundraiser for the president or game of tennis with the prime minister might be seen as tame. From ancient castles to mega-yachts: what history teaches us about the super-rich 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z One mark of an influential artist is the ability to speak through modern-day disciples. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Perhaps that is in part what makes the film such uncomfortable watching, the way it echoes modern-day celebrity train wrecks, from the alcohol and drug abuse to sex with minors. Late-in-life Errol Flynn leers in 'The Last of Robin Hood' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z But no sooner does the play begin than we find ourselves in a carpeted modern-day boardroom. Review: ‘Art’ and ‘Saint Joan’ 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z The finished product, Second City's History of Chicago, previewing in December, will likely lampoon familiar territory, such as the weather, notorious traffic jams and some famous modern-day names: The mayors Daley. Famed comedy club seeking laughs in Chicago's past 2011-11-05T14:53:08Z Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album and the modern-day music festival. A Look at the Set of Tommy Hilfiger’s Spring 2015 Show 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Near the end of “Black No More,” over an aggressive rap beat, a white antagonist asserts that Black lives don’t matter, a perceived reference to the modern-day Black Lives Matter movement. The Evolution of Black Music, and a Man’s Soul, in One Show 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z So Pony World Theatre's production, marrying the Russian writer's scripts and a modern-day office setting, seems not too far-fetched. Top arts and entertainment picks for Nov. 13-19 2011-11-10T20:56:48Z Located in a pastoral setting, this centuries-old chateau melds modern-day comforts with an old-world vibe. A week-long, 80-mile walking tour of picturesque Brittany is a step back in time 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Mary Gordon considers this question — and our retributive impulse — in her morally complex novel about a long-ago crime and the modern-day television host determined to seek vengeance for it. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z What is the appeal, for a modern-day girl, of becoming Queen and dealing with all of the hullabaloo that goes along with it? Motherlode: One Lucky Prince 2011-04-28T15:30:39Z And they say modern-day television is intellectually stupefying. Last night's TV: Christmas with Gordon; Come Dine with Me: Celebrity Christmas Special; Jimmy's Food Factory; Nigella Kitchen; Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers 2010-12-23T07:59:01Z It is because of that modern-day Vesuvius – coronavirus – that Hanks and I are talking through screens, and he is promoting a film that will be streamed on Apple TV+ instead of released in cinemas. Tom Hanks on surviving coronavirus: 'I had crippling body aches, fatigue and couldn't concentrate' 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z A mystic, flat-topped mountain on the Venezuela-Brazil border that perplexed 19th-century explorers and inspired "The Lost World" novel is attracting ever more modern-day adventurers. Adventurers flock to Venezuela's 'Lost World' mountain 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z I’m left wondering why heroin is so alluring for the hegemonized, modern-day consumer subject. “I should be among the dead”: Young, white, and economically advantaged, I was hungry for meaning and found heroin instead 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Their work here goes beyond guiding readers to the best suppli and carbonara; it connects the city’s signature dishes to its history and modern-day culture. 6 Cookbooks That Double as Guidebooks 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Tauck’s guides also provided a diverse sense of modern-day Budapest, including a Monday late-night visit to some “ruin bars” — established by local entrepreneurs to transform decrepit prewar buildings into colorful, jazzy watering holes. Swapping a boat for a bus to explore Prague, Vienna and Budapest 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z That's how Time, our mythical narrator, sums up the fanciful events in “Melissa Arctic,” Craig Wright’s modern-day transposition of “The Winter’s Tale.” 'Melissa Arctic' an updated twist on 'A Winter's Tale' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Both modern-day knights suffered wounds — a bruised elbow for Thompson, swollen knuckles for Venezia. Have at thee! Special Forces veteran revives medieval combat skills. 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Sarah Cubbage’s wonderful costumes — breeches and pompadours mixed with stone-washed tights and sneakers — foreshadowed the gleeful anachronisms and salty modern-day vernacular in Mr. Buggeln’s script. | 'Hater': An Updated ?Misanthrope? at the Ohio Theater 2010-07-22T22:11:00Z It's about a modern-day woman who goes on an adventure far below the streets of New York City, where she encounters characters from the classic tale. Janet Dacal to star as Alice on Broadway 2010-10-12T21:20:00Z Waiting In The Wings is two-and-a-half minutes of modern-day surf pop. June's best music from across the MAP 2012-06-13T10:52:13Z "Same as It Ever Was," "Shake Our Way Out," "Made My Peace" and "Peace I Need" are all good examples of challenging the modern-day short attention span. Gov't Mule embraces Pink Floyd, peace and protest: "We're in some pretty precarious times" 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Set in modern-day Kazakhstan, where the quiet is broken only by brutishness, this classically shot and edited film is a spare yet entrancing tale drawn with precise strokes. Movie Review: ‘Student,’ Directed by Darezhan Omirbayev 2013-05-30T22:51:36Z The new exhibition records the process by which the occupant of 221B Baker Street became a modern-day myth, at times straying far from what Conan Doyle wrote in 56 short stories and four novels. The changing face of Sherlock Holmes 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z We’re completely stripping off all the paint, putting new modern-day paint on it. Just Asking: The construction manager for the Capitol dome restoration project on the layers of history 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The goal is to retrace the path of the Domínguez-Escalante expedition, which carved an irregular circle of 1,700 miles through modern-day New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona, then mostly terra incognita to Europeans. They’re Not as Famous as Lewis and Clark, but They Should Be 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z In another, he strategizes with his team about safety procedures for traveling through places that may have once been considered sundown towns, showing how racism persists in modern-day Kentucky and the nation. ‘From the Hood to the Holler’ Review: A Race to Galvanize the Poor 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Versatility is a chief characteristic of the dish, its many forms through history serving as evidence of its long journey from modern-day North Korea to South Korea and all across the Korean diaspora. Bulgogi, Any Way You Slice It 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z T's pick of the night was Taylor Swift in Donna Karan Atelier, whose eggplant dress simmered with the type of grandeur befitting a modern-day Grace Kelly or Veronica Lake. | The Golden Globes 2013-01-14T17:47:18Z The entire series rested on Selleck’s shoulders, and to simply palm it off with some modern-day B-list milquetoast is immediate death. It was acceptable in the 80s: why Magnum PI should be spared reboot hell 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z No sly asides, no double entendres and nary a hint of modern-day gender politics dilute this poetically, if not prophetically, imagined storybook fable. In 'Cinderella,' goodness and fairy tale innocence rule 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z July 2, “David & Jonathan, a “modern-day retelling of the biblical story” set in a contemporary black church. Land of the free: No-cost activities in and around Seattle 2013-06-26T22:29:21Z In a Jewish marriage, the modern-day ketubah, a prenuptial agreement, is standard and unorthodox. The Jewish Prenuptial Gets an Artsy Update 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z It becomes easy — and honestly, sometimes really satisfying — to narrativize perceived hosts' slights like a modern-day parable. Why are we SO obsessed with stories of hospitality gone wrong? 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z When this whimsical, tender production by David Freeman opens, we see a group of athletes in colorful modern-day gym clothes, working out. Music Review: Garsington Opera’s ‘Olympiade’ by Vivaldi, in England 2012-06-24T22:11:06Z Between them they confuse and manipulate the four lovers who, being modern-day young things, are obsessed with rock music, smartphones and themselves. Cos? fan tutte; Dream Hunter; Commotio; Stephen Hough, LPO/Alsop ? review 2012-02-12T00:06:08Z And I feel like fine dining around the world is kind of a wave right now — it's a modern-day topic that people talk about. Netflix's Thai film "Hunger" was supposed to make you feel "uneasy" and grossed-out says director 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z Somehow, former prisoners and guards from the famed lockup are reappearing in modern-day San Francisco. Monday TV Picks: Fox's new 'Alcatraz' 2012-01-13T23:07:11Z A gaggle of nonspeaking actors with notepads mills about like obsequious officials or timid modern-day reporters, a powerless public hanging on every interaction of the royal family and the King’s enemies. Review: A Long-Awaited New Opera Is a Raucous Beauty 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Some contemporary theological scholars disagree over whether this portrait is prescriptive for modern-day followers or simply descriptive of expectations of the time, but such discourse was flattened in the lilac room. On "engagement chicken" and redefining the meals for which we marry 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z American audiences will have no problem sizing up the situation as a quagmire, even without the production’s modern-day setting, complete with tan-colored fatigues that would not look out of place in Afghanistan. Review: ‘Troilus and Cressida,’ a Trojan War Love Story 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z One of them, bloodily pierced by eight dental mirrors, might be a modern-day Saint Sebastian, martyred at the orthodontist’s office. Review | In the galleries: Animator finds playful inspiration on both sides of the border 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z In any case, modern-day iterations of the dish show that how it’s served is open to interpretation. Frito Pie: The halftime indulgence that has made it to restaurant menus 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z When news of the ice in Calcutta circulated, British merchants in Bombay, modern-day Mumbai, excitedly raised money to build an ice house in the city's docks. The icy backstory to that "clink clink" you’ll hear when raising a toast to the end of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Eicher – quite rightly – opted to treat the soundtracks of Nouvelle Vague films as a form of modern-day opera. ECM: In search of free jazz and free expression 2013-03-26T14:00:31Z "Steve Slater is the modern-day equivalent of Charles Bronson in 'Death Wish' -- except, of course, there's no artillery, bloodshed or permanent damage in this particular example of brand vigilantism," he said. Jetblue folk hero electrifies news media, ad firms 2010-08-12T13:57:00Z Ruins of the Punic district are seen in the ancient city of Carthage, in modern-day Tunisia. A story of Hannibal offers a lesson to the modern world 2010-07-06T13:13:00Z Within hours, now Democratic presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Cory Booker — both African-American — compared the attack to an “attempted modern-day lynching.” Smollett story shows thin line between news and social media 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature by William Corliss One of at least 18 hardback volumes of anomalies collected by this modern-day Charles Fort. Mark Pilkington's top 10 books about UFOs 2010-09-01T11:29:00Z It’s hard to imagine what Hardy would have made of these modern-day interpretations, since what he saw in his day was relatively crude. The Return of the Hardy Novel to the Screen 2012-07-13T16:29:16Z A modern-day social critic with nary a concern for modern-day standards of political correctness. David Sedaris discusses prison pen pals, pandemic sensitivities and that apology he’s never going to give 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Others slammed the series for creating false stereotypes that don't mesh with the modern-day Mormon majority. Mormons view 'Book of Mormon' more as opportunity than offense 2013-01-06T05:49:27Z A look at how to navigate modern-day challenges, from the rise of technology to national security. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Could there be some relationship between the rationalist philosopher Rushd and the modern-day novelist Rushdie? Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a swirling tale of genies and geniuses 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z That was the challenge faced by about two dozen people on Monday night who took part in “Pilgrimage,” a modern-day version of that medieval peregrination. In Make Music Winter, Critics Find Their Inner Yodelers and Pilgrims 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Nor will he criticize farmers who embrace modern-day machines and chemicals, including those who use the weedkiller glyphosate, the subject of intense debate in Europe over its potential health risks. French farmer finds happiness in life before machines 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Such an attenuation of misogynist violence makes the opera a bit more palatable to modern-day audiences. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Nor will he criticize farmers who embrace modern-day machines and chemicals, including those who use the weedkiller glyphosate, the subject of intense debate in Europe over its potential health risks. French farmer finds happiness in life before machines 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z The New Yorker staff writer delivers an essay collection exploring the myriad modern-day forces deranging us, our ideas and our cultural values. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Adding a degree of difficulty, “The Last Tycoon” will serve as a vehicle for commentary about modern-day Hollywood and America as a whole. Amazon Tackles Hollywood’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Obsession 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Supreme Court will pepper lawyers with questions, possibly signaling how they might rule, during a modern-day record six hours of oral arguments from Monday through Wednesday. Obama healthcare law faces high court hearing 2012-03-23T11:20:00Z George claims that change reflects the fact that vampire stories mirror the anxieties embedded in modern-day culture. University conference sinks its teeth into vampire fiction 2010-04-05T23:05:00Z At the end of Act 2, when fighters from several cantons pledge rebellion in a thrilling chorus, those modern-day observers strolled by again. Review:"Williams Tell" celebrates all things Swiss 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z A new free app, Porter & Sail, wants to be the modern-day version of the old-fashioned hotel concierge. Hotel and Resort News: Boston Stay With a View of Fenway 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z As our critic Molly Young wrote, “Demon blossoms into an authentic artist and reaps all the rewards associated with that calling in modern-day America: obscurity, instability, compensation best measured in units of peanut.” Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z As well as exploring the BBC's history, Yentob said he wanted the attraction to allow visitors to experience how modern-day shows such as Strictly, Top Gear, Doctor Who and Sherlock are made. BBC Television Centre to be redeveloped as a 'digital experience' 2013-03-31T17:29:01Z But in modern-day journalism, he's a celebrated go-getter. 'Nightcrawler' shows how the news worm has turned 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Egypt may have the biggest pyramids, but Meroe, located in modern-day Sudan has the most. 8 Awe-Inspiring Pyramids From Around the World 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Hewson’s crime novel, the ninth in a series, is like a satisfying “Law & Order” episode set in modern-day Rome. Newly Released Books 2011-04-20T22:05:44Z “Dark Time in the Revolution” tries to square modern-day America with the nation Tom Paine was defining when he wrote “Common Sense.” Laurie Anderson?s Heart, Politics and Processors 2010-06-25T16:17:00Z We realized early on that in discussing any set of moral problems, even in the extreme abstract, you’re going to end up running alongside the car of some modern-day issue. ‘The Good Place’ Finale Finds the Meaning of Life: ‘Yep, Nailed It’ 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Still, in its overall musical character, “Curlew River” is like a modern-day medieval liturgical drama. Ian Bostridge Stars in Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Ms. Mein’s figurative sculpture “Le Songe,” or “The Dream,” represents a distorted squatting female form that appears to be metamorphosing into another organic mass, something of a modern-day Daphne. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Belgian Artists Making an Impact, at Home and Beyond 2011-10-13T11:00:13Z Here is a guide to finding artisan spices in modern-day Mumbai. In Transit: In Mumbai, Where the Spices are Fresh 2011-02-24T11:00:43Z Disneyland’s Matterhorn Bobsled, opened in 1959, sparked their modern-day renaissance, and for one simple reason: its tracks were made of steel, rather than wood. My first rollercoaster ride: are they really safer than a golf cart? 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z It read like the work of a modern-day pamphleteer or like someone lancing a pernicious boil. Critic's Notebook: Kindle Singles, Genre Between Magazine Articles and Books 2012-03-06T13:00:00Z While Cinerama only made a handful of films, “it was the first of the modern-day wide-screen processes.” Long Before Imax, the Curious Tale of Cinerama 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z He's taken poor, rich Zuckerberg and installed him as a modern-day Daniel Plainview; a man who gains the world but winds up hunched miserably over his PC; refreshing, refreshing for all that he's worth. When the alpha nerds kicked ass 2010-12-16T22:01:00Z So, what was the dress code for a modern-day “Bolter” party, not to mention the code of conduct? The Life of Many a Party 2010-08-11T23:51:00Z Another episode, “Capitalism,” links the business of breaking and exploiting Black bodies with the modern-day economic system that exploits labor for capital. Perspective | Nikole Hannah-Jones isn’t done challenging the story of America 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z There are no aliens in "Life in a Day", although there are a few goat herders who might pass for modern-day cowboys. No aliens, no superheroes, just "Life in a Day" 2011-07-29T22:35:30Z Then comes another recitation of miles traveled, excerpts from the diaries and explanations of how the diarists’ accounts helped Ragen’s modern-day expedition members unearth what they believe was the route. ‘The Meek Cutoff’: Pioneers stranded in the Oregon desert 2013-08-07T22:01:43Z Hollywood heartthrob Matthew McConaughey took a break from romantic comedies in "Killer Joe", a comic modern-day Western about a cop who doubles as a hitman. Venice film festival wins on points, lacks knock-out 2011-09-09T13:29:02Z After all, German actors are able to play Shakespeare in their own modern-day German, while British actors play Shakespeare in early-modern English. Friends, Germans, countrymen: the long history of 'unser Shakespeare' 2010-10-06T12:01:00Z The two fumble through the redefined emotional landscape of modern-day relationships, forced to relearn how to love and be loved. Carpetbagger: Eclectic as Ever, Sundance Unveils Competition Lineup 2011-11-30T21:00:03Z Through Mr. Sattin’s research, which includes years of travels with modern-day nomadic peoples, he aims to correct that oversight by showing how nomadic people have contributed to human progress and development. Beyond Borders: A Deep Dive Into the Nomadic Way of Life 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z This low-slung, earth-colored village, with its rough and uneven stone streets, is one of the four communities that make up the Acoma Pueblo, which is one of the state’s 19 modern-day pueblos. Searching for the Ancestral Puebloans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z It’s because "House of Blue Leaves" is a modern-day masterpiece. Spring Performance: Theater: Been There, Done That, and Now Going to This 2011-02-20T02:01:27Z The new Web series is a gay, modern-day "I Love Lucy" of sorts, following the wacky trials and tribulations of a celebrity's spouse — Brad — in roughly three-minute episodes. Actor-activist George Takei takes command in cyberspace and beyond 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Little is known of his birth, which took place around the middle of the 15th century, somewhere near the modern-day border between France and Belgium. The Renaissance’s Most Influential Composer, 500 Years Later 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Ivey described the piece as a “modern-day fable rooted in stark reality” that “explores what it means to be a Sikh American in this day of racism and fear.” Lauren Yee and Jaclyn Backhaus Win Horton Foote Prize for Plays 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Civil rights activists likened the restriction to a modern-day poll tax and argued that when voters passed Amendment 4, they understood it as completion of time served. In 2018, Florida enfranchised former felons. They’re still fighting for the right to vote. 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z It’s a treat to see Henson, Oscar-nominated as Benjamin Button’s saintly adoptive mother, strut a modern-day sexual confidence, even if her Lauren has to suffer a comeuppance. Think Like a Man: Men and Women Behaving Bedly 2012-04-19T17:07:29Z Silicon Valley moguls, N.F.L. stars and Olympians flock to “Stoicon,” an annual conference of modern-day Stoics who spend a week attempting to “think like a Roman emperor.” Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Turner skillfully uses some modern-day analogies, but her great accomplishment is to immerse readers in 12th-century Japan in all of its gore and glory. Best children’s and YA books for March 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Unabashedly a throwback in notion and execution, this new disc comprises six modern-day ghost stories, swaddled in rich, harmonically sophisticated arrangements and adorned with woodwinds and vintage keyboards. Music Review: Steven Wilson at the Best Buy Theater 2013-04-28T21:00:18Z This modern-day gloss on the classic locked-room mystery takes place in a remote mansion high in the hills of southern India. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z A modern-day equivalent would be using a picture of an eye to represent “I” — a linguistic concept called the rebus principle. How the sexy peach emoji joined the resistance 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z But the movie’s caffeinated juice is supplied by the actors playing the three Oodie brothers: cretinous, tattooed, muscle-bound hit men who are the ruling outlaws of this modern-day Wild West. Movie Review: ‘The Baytown Outlaws,’ With Billy Bob Thornton 2013-01-10T22:52:00Z Vocal imitations of other animal sounds, however, may have been used for hunting, like a modern-day duck call. Who invented music? The search for stone flutes, clay whistles and the dawn of song 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z There are a number of things you expect to see in a modern-day music video partly based in a club. Daithí – Chameleon Life feat Raye: New music 2013-05-29T06:00:00Z It remains to be seen whether she reflects the modern-day woman still fighting to break through the glass ceiling, or simply the sorry soul in all of us who always seems stuck at number two. Megan Draper and TV?s Best Female Characters: TIME Gives the Bechdel Test 2012-04-30T10:45:05Z Such insights into the strange gestation period of the 21st-century blockbuster paint a picture, both fascinating and terrifying, of film-makers as modern-day Victor Frankensteins, constantly splicing together old parts to create new forms. Rise of the apes: how Rogue One's strange birth lays bare Hollywood's imagination drought 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Is Trump a very stable genius or the modern-day Nero? Perspective | ‘We’re not doctors’: The perils for journalists in assessing Trump’s mental health 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z But as last week’s very fine episode ended, his modern-day sidekick, Lt. 'Sleepy Hollow' Season 2 Finale Recap: Abbie Goes Back 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z A formerly abandoned livestock pasture, the hacienda abode is today like a modern-day Garden of Eden, with sculptured hedges enclosing beds of impatiens, a hillside lawn, and bougainvillea and hibiscus draped everywhere. In Southwest Colombia, Treasures Are Forbidden No More 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The material — the story of a modern-day cowboy who breaks into jail to rescue his best friend — is original for a western, and gets better as it goes along. Kirk Douglas’s Film ‘Lonely Are the Brave’ 2012-07-28T22:47:18Z That’s a lot — I would argue enough — but Shipstead has boldly complicated this gripping historical novel by weaving in a modern-day story set in Hollywood. Review | Maggie Shipstead’s ‘Great Circle’ is a soaring work of historical fiction and a perfect summer novel 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z The dilemma of the modern-day movie reboot, particularly in Hollywood’s current I.P. gold-rush era, might be called the “super size me” problem. ‘House Party’ Review: A Rager Gone South 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z My mother was thrilled and began filling a series of plastic bins with cookware and china as a sort of modern-day hope chest. On "engagement chicken" and redefining the meals for which we marry 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Today, Carnival is a nexus of past and present: the gravitas of historical rituals and classic Carnival characters collides with modern-day hedonism. Carnival Roundup: Carnival: A Party to Remember, an Island at a Time 2012-11-09T19:19:31Z Too often, modern academics approach Benjamin as a Rorschach test, gazing at the text and thereby gauging their own predilections toward Marxism, poststructuralism, sociology, Jewish mysticism, urban theory, or modern-day Dadaism. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z Geffen is hardly some modern-day version of Andrew Carnegie, who made his fortune from steel and financed one of the great waves of philanthropy in the nation’s history. One More Project for David Geffen: Building His Legacy 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Then DiMaggio broke George Sisler’s modern-day record of hits in 41 consecutive games. Perspective | Joe DiMaggio’s hitting streak still a record 80 years later 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z We wanted to juxtapose this story with the modern-day prison system and police brutality, to show we shouldn’t be repeating these mistakes. When Pyer Moss Brought Police Brutality to the Runway 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z In Adam Bock’s “Before the Meeting,” the walking dead are recovering modern-day alcoholics and drug addicts, setting up a church basement for a series of 12-step meetings. On Adjacent Stages, Two Haunted Houses, Circa 1882 and 2019 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z And then, of course, there's Alex, the comatose modern-day cop, struggling to get back to her daughter. Ashes to Ashes: co-creator Matthew Graham says goodbye to Gene Hunt 2010-05-21T21:00:00Z "Both films obviously feature princesses, but they are really modern-day characters with purpose and passion." 'Cinderella' to be paired with 'Frozen Fever' short film in theaters That may not be the way Chicagoans see themselves, but it describes the city’s image as viewed through the lens of modern-day television. Chicago News Cooperative: Crime, Sex, Politics and Regular Folks 2011-09-24T23:40:10Z Hailey, a tall and lean 50 years old with a no-nonsense demeanor, is yet one more embodiment of modern-day Roanoke — an enterprising DIYer with a strong affection for the outdoors. In Roanoke, Va., discovering a gateway to outdoor adventure 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z The latter in particular raised the cathedral's profile for modern-day tourists from China to the United States. The bells, the bells: Notre-Dame's crumbling gargoyles need help 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Free radicals are teeny molecules released in our modern-day environment and produced when our body breaks down certain foods. A parental primer on kids’ nutrition questions 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z When, in this production’s dispiriting coda, modern-day equivalents of Alice and the Knave repeat their duet, it’s a final, fatal example of thorough craft running ahead of insight. ‘Alice’s Adventures’ in Ballet, Love Story Added 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Last year we took 180 people to Bestival," says Curtis, a serene, and self-confessed modern-day hippie, "and this year it'll be closer to 200. Gavin Turk's fairytale project 2011-07-15T23:05:47Z According to the publisher, Cummings “powerfully weaves together the urgent drama of modern-day politics and the defining stories from his past.” June release set for book by the late Rep. Elijah Cummings 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z It's a story of the devastating toll of drunken driving, but also a modern-day parable of loss, celebrity and one man's quest for redemption. Parole battle pits Sinatras against killer of singer's close friend 2010-07-24T22:34:00Z She is also one of the documentary’s modern-day interview subjects. ?The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975,? Temperate Militants 2011-09-02T19:13:02Z So we meet our bookish millennial heroine — a modern-day Elizabeth Bennet, if you will. Review | In ‘The Bookish Life of Nina Hill,’ Abbi Waxman introduces a modern-day Elizabeth Bennet 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z How Chevalier renders Iago’s scheme into the terms of a modern-day playground provides some wicked delight. Tracy Chevalier’s ‘New Boy’ illuminates the peculiar trials of our era 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Currently on view at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., the exhibition also includes 12 black and white photographs by Shoals resident Alexandra de Steiguer comparing modern-day locations with Hassam’s interpretations. The quest to retrace the tracks of seascape painter Childe Hassam 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z The modern-day tolerance of William and Middleton's living arrangements, many say, just brings the House of Windsor in line with the times. UK royal bride's virginity no longer an issue 2011-04-08T11:18:08Z Many of the modern-day practices of Halloween and even its name were influenced by Christianity. Tricking and treating’s long history 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z But the president’s misstep around Charlottesville was significant in that it sent more than a wink and a nod message to the haters in this country, the modern-day Klansmen, the alternative right, the neo-Nazis. The president of the National Urban League discusses the state of black America 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Chatty Brit explorers regret discovering a modern-day Lost World in the Congo in this low-budget cross between Monsters and Jurassic Park. This week's new films 2012-08-10T23:05:23Z One surprise is the Andes Hotel, which was founded in 1850 and still offers lodging and liquor, with modern-day drinkers happily occupying the hotel’s spacious front porch. Journeys: Correspondents Select Some of Their Favorite Roads 2012-05-20T22:47:22Z In Southern California, where Walt Disney pioneered the modern-day theme park in 1955, the soon-to-open Potter attraction is expected to similarly boost attendance at Universal Studios Hollywood. Hogwarts, West Coast edition: New Harry Potter theme park set to open in California 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Amos Workshop production of an immersive musical thriller about an American adrift in modern-day Ukraine. L.A theater openings, May 7-14: 'Archduke,' 'The Designated Mourner' and more 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Founded in 1669 by Louis XIV, and with a modern-day budget of over 200 million euros, the Paris Opera is one of the oldest and most powerful music-theater companies in the world. After a Long Search, Paris Opera Names a Director 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z It charts the days from when it was a middle-class Victorian pastime, to the modern-day game which involves large sums of prize money and sponsorship deals. Author's tribute to tennis greats 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The festival will include plenty of straight-faced homage mixed with modern-day star power. Albert Camus, Stranger in a Strange Land: New York 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z More than 140 works by 45 master folders from around the world showcase origami and its modern-day application in the fields of mathematics, engineering, design and the global peace movement. Visual arts calendar 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Directed by Noah Baumbach, and written by the two of them, it is a knowingly exuberant study of a dizzy New Yorker struggling with post-college maturity, which some have likened to a modern-day Annie Hall. How female actors are rewriting Hollywood's script 2013-07-11T17:00:01Z His laboratory, located in Menlo Park, New Jersey, became the model for the modern-day industrial R&D lab. Excerpt: Up-All-Night Success Stories from The 24-Hour Genius 2013-06-19T14:56:02Z Mr. Moffat, also a producer of the modern-day Sherlock Holmes series recently spoke to ArtsBeat about the latest “Doctor Who” holiday special and the challenges of running two shows simultaneously. ArtsBeat: Time Lords A-Leaping: Steven Moffat Explains the 'Doctor Who' Christmas Special 2010-12-20T17:13:14Z A preposterously weird little novel that’s more brilliant than it has any right to be: a modern-day crime of passion based on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” narrated by a fetus. Notable fiction in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z I professed my love for the way he and his teammates had played, but he detected criticism of modern-day Russia. Cold War Puck: The Beauties of Russian Hockey 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z For instance, tentpole film "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," a modern-day prequel to the classic sci-fi tale about chimps that launch a revolution, generated bigger audiences than industry pundits forecast. Analysis: Fox wounded, but not because of News Corp crisis 2011-09-30T21:51:53Z "I wouldn't call myself that," he says in a faint attempt at modesty, "but fans on Twitter call me the modern-day Fela or Marley or Dylan, you know." Wyclef Jean: 'Fans are calling me the new Dylan' 2010-12-05T21:30:00Z Two are modern-day originals, while one is a classic, or at least a version of one, tweaked in small but crucial ways. The Tipsy Diaries: 3 Cocktails That Share an Exquisite Secret 2011-01-06T22:30:13Z Exhibits include some 30 passports, including a German Jew’s passport stamped with the letter “J” in the Nazi era, a “Nansen passport” for stateless refugees from 1937 and a modern-day provisional refugee passport. Berlin museum centering on Germans expelled after WWII opens 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z In 1833 Tudor was approached by Samuel Austin, a merchant of silks and spices, to ship ice to Calcutta, modern-day Kolkata, 16,000 miles away, as ballast to add weight to his empty ships. The icy backstory to that "clink clink" you’ll hear when raising a toast to the end of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Last month, he won his first Emmy for his role as a modern-day Sherlock Holmes in the BBC television miniseries "Sherlock", which airs on PBS in the United States. Working with Cumberbatch, co-stars get challenged and 'batched' 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Set in modern-day Guam, it combines the glamorous locations and snappy dialogue of Magnum PI or Hawaii Five-0 with the fact that the hero is physically unable to die. "It's Lost meets Heroes in real time ? kind of like 24' 2010-06-11T23:07:00Z The transposition to modern-day New York is a mistake, too, as the characters still seem stuck in the late 1960s in their gender politics, language and hangups about marriage. Company ? review 2011-02-10T17:35:05Z Where would a modern-day Cinderella spend a romantic afternoon with her prince? Video: Tony Awards: In Performance With Courtney B. Vance 2013-06-03T16:13:06Z It’s hard to imagine anyone else who could find this much life in the show’s modern-day Job. Review: Mark Ruffalo, Times Two, in the Saddest Story Ever Told 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z But one wishes that the author had delved more deeply into the relationships, history and culture of the modern-day melting pot. ‘You Don’t Have to Live Like This’ review: Trouble rebuilding Detroit 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z “We add art. You add expensive lighting. The island becomes sort of the modern-day dining table.” In the Kitchens of the Rich, Things Are Not as They Seem 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z “I think he hustled me there at the end, like one of those hustlers working a pool table,” Ms. Crowder said of Mr. Luke’s modern-day Cupid arrow. Cupid’s Arrow in the Form of a Dart 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Despite his extraordinary skill as a modern-day social critic, Coates never intrudes on the stately, slightly antique voice of his narrator. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z In the US, an organisation called the Philoctetes Project performs ancient military dramas in order to help modern-day soldiers deal with post-traumatic stress disorder. Why the tale of Achilles and his lover still has the power to move us 2012-06-02T23:06:04Z To modern-day readers, Crabbe's treatment of Grimes, Ellen and others – a mixture of compassion and sermonising – points forward to the novels of Dickens. George Crabbe: The man behind Benjamin Britten 2013-06-14T17:00:01Z The trophy for best British newcomer went to Sally El Hosaini for "My Brother the Devil," the story of British-Egyptian brothers struggling with conflicting loyalties and identities in modern-day London. 'Rust and Bone' named best picture at London fest 2012-10-21T00:08:52Z Though the new film retains the period setting of the 1897 Edmond Rostand play it was based on, Dinklage detects many modern-day parallels. Peter Dinklage on ‘Cyrano’ and Life After ‘Game of Thrones’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z "The Almighty Johnsons" — Norse gods of old turned modern-day Kiwis — return in the imported fantasy drama's sophomore-season premiere. TV This Week Nov. 2 - 8: The Game, 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Their works “have become the cornerstones of the comic book industry and remain a virtual master class for modern-day creators on how to craft compelling and innovative superhero narratives,” he wrote in an email. Harvey Awards to Induct 6 New Hall of Fame Members 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z What was old Bert Middleton's childhood like, his unseen modern-day interviewer asks at the start of episode two. The Village; Arne Dahl – The Blinded Man; Catchphrase – TV review 2013-04-08T06:00:19Z Supernatural comedy, psychological mystery, modern-day parable, “Walter” is a little of all of these — another way of saying it can’t decide what it is or what story it wants to tell. Review: ‘Walter’ Is Obsessed With Fate 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z What a thrilling new accoutrement for the modern-day celebrity! Oh great and gentle muse, inspire Beyoncé with the genius of poetry 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Odyssey lost every round in federal courts as the Spanish government painted the company as modern-day pirates. Spain allows first glimpse of shipwreck treasure won from US salvage firm 2012-11-30T14:59:16Z And they just started a new series for CBS called “Elementary,” which is a modern-day Sherlock Holmes based here in New York with Lucy Liu in the role of Watson. The 30-Minute Interview: The 30-Minute Interview: Alan Suna 2012-07-17T20:58:33Z But based on the first episode, it certainly gives them a modern-day relevance, perhaps unintentionally. Television Review: ‘The Men Who Built America,’ on the History Channel 2012-10-15T21:45:53Z But what’s especially remarkable is that the modern-day scenes interwoven with Pericles’ ancient adventures feel no less electrifying. Review | Mark Haddon’s ‘The Porpoise’ sounds like homework. It’s actually fantastic. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z “Experts examined the instrument in Sofia and it is thought to be a replica training violin, made in either Germany or the modern-day Czech Republic no more than 100 years ago.” Million-Dollar Stradivarius Violin Stolen, Recovered—Then Found to Be Fake 2013-03-27T15:44:33Z The Darlings also have been transported forward in time, from Victorian England to modern-day Tulsa, Okla. Soon Wendy will travel to Neverland, accompanied by her younger half brother, Michael, and eventually Lily. What if Wendy and Lily Voted Peter Off the Island? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z And the series opens in a diner in a desert, as if it were a skewed modern-day western. ArtsBeat: A Strange, Familiar Place in ‘Planetary Omnibus’ 2014-02-20T21:09:02Z “The Farm” is a largely naturalistic book set in a modern-day New York, where the immigrants live in Flushing and the rich live on Park Avenue. Can Surrogacy Remake the World? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z In “Junk,” Akhtar has written a modern-day morality tale that scrupulously questions the possibility of moral choice in a world where money, the new might, now makes right. Seduced by Ayad Akhtar's 'Junk,' the new play that picks apart the Wall Street playbook 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Fincher's thriller is already exciting rave reviews and looks set to spark flurried debate over its fractious take on modern-day marriage. Gone Girl unleashes battle of the sexes at New York film festival 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z The prominence of metallic gold and silver recalls medieval and renaissance religious art, also an influence on the Venezuela-bred D.C. artist’s suite of modern-day Madonnas, exhibited last year at Honfleur Gallery. In the galleries: Delineating a cultural frontier 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z To pick my favourite modern-day invention is truly a Sophie's Choice scenario. How great is the automated lacing system? 2010-09-01T07:59:00Z Mr. Moffat, who is also a producer of the modern-day Sherlock Holmes series “Sherlock,” spoke recently to ArtsBeat about the latest “Doctor Who” holiday special and the challenges of running two shows simultaneously. ArtsBeat: Time Lords A-Leaping: Steven Moffat Explains the 'Doctor Who' Christmas Special 2010-12-20T15:45:16Z In 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took to rhyming verse in response to what he saw as unfair criticism, so it seems entirely appropriate that his modern-day adapter Mark Gatiss might do the same. Is Sherlock worse for too much action? Gatiss sends his verse reaction 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z It defines this age of violent Islamist radicalism, yet the meaning of the word and its relevance for modern-day Muslims are both contested. Men of war 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Now floating in time, their callous disregard for everyone else becomes eerily reminiscent of certain modern-day banking practices. Review: Timeless greed stars in 'The Little Foxes' 2010-09-22T19:44:00Z Oddly, the movie does begin with a halfway-decent gag: bottles of milk have crude line drawings of missing children on them, like milk cartons in modern-day America. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters – review 2013-02-28T15:29:01Z At other points, O’Connor dons the voice of a modern-day historian and dispassionately explains, say, the conditions of sex work in late 18th-century America. ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Though they always intended to focus largely on archival footage, the circumstance led them to keep the film entirely in its period, without the modern-day reflections of talking heads. At Sundance, documentaries resurrect lost eras of music 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Francis, leader of 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, spoke of their shared "horror in the face of the scourge of human trafficking and forms of modern-day slavery". Pope, Anglican leader join forces against human trafficking 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z A riff on “The Great Gatsby,” this debut novel centers on the fates and fortunes of African-American families in modern-day North Carolina. Paperback Row 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Even the sale won’t create a financial windfall, he said; after his debts are settled he doesn’t expect to clear enough to buy a new place to live in modern-day Fremont. Brad's Swingside Cafe counting down its final months 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z And in North America, the powerful indigenous urban center of Cahokia, in modern-day Illinois, boasted around 30,000 residents—more than lived in colonial Boston, Philadelphia, or Charleston. How to Talk to Kids About America Before Columbus 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Even modern-day New York looks different with an orphan and a billionaire as tour guides. Forget the winter chills with a movie 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z He said modern-day witches don't look for spirits indiscriminately. Real witches cry foul at portrayal on "True Blood" 2011-08-12T18:53:24Z The lands depicted in the codex stretch between modern-day Mexico City and Atoyatempan, a town in southeastern Mexico. Rare 16th-century Mesoamerican codex goes online at the Library of Congress 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z The book, due out May 1, tells the story of a catatonically depressed woman named Lucy, also 38, who slumps around modern-day Venice Beach, Calif., aimless and alone. In ‘The Pisces,’ a Woman and a Merman Fall in Love. Aquatic Erotica Ensues. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z I saw no difference between his acts and the modern-day acts of Warren Jeffs, whom I abhorred. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z It’s a fantasy about turning Roberts herself into a modern-day Audrey Hepburn, prim and elegant and absolutely certain to know which type of fork is appropriate for each course. Pretty Woman at 30: conservatism, materialism and glowing star power 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Based on the Book of Job, Leviathan tells the story of a man battling endemic corruption across the church and state and modern-day Russia. Cannes 2014: Winter Sleep takes Palme d'Or in ceremony of upsets 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z In “Seaweed Chronicles,” Susan Hand Shetterly introduces us to the cultural heritage of seaweed in the Gulf of Maine and to the industry and politics of modern-day seaweed growing and harvesting. ‘Seaweed Chronicles’ Review: A Fragile World at the Water’s Edge 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Spike Lee himself has often been condemned for portraying African-Americans in a negative light, although his criticism of Perry seems more in line with Lee's own movie from 2000 about modern-day minstrel shows, "Bamboozled." Tyler Perry vs. Spike Lee: Let's bring the Jews into this! 2011-04-20T20:06:00Z The Anglo-Saxon poet, arguably, was a little more respectful of women and less likely to insert the disclaimer "no homo" into an account of male companionship than his modern-day heirs, but the point basically holds. 50 Cent's Twitter feed 2010-09-26T21:30:00Z "But we don't want to be modern-day France either." Controversial 'Death of Klinghoffer' goes on at Met Opera House despite protests 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z A: It's a modern-day origin story, set now. Freida Pinto rises up in new "Planet of the Apes" 2011-08-04T17:50:53Z And it is this point in the story that the modern-day turkey gets its name. Talking turkey! How the Thanksgiving bird got its name (and then lent it to film flops) 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z I wanted to create modern-day goddesses and wearable art. Dressing Brides for ‘Their Red-Carpet Moment’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z In the piece's last movement, they incant a list of modern-day appliances and other conveniences that rely on fossil fuels. Julia Wolfe's Pulitzer-winning 'Anthracite Fields' makes its West Coast debut at Disney Hall 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z No danger of that in the first episode, which reveals an accumulation of unsolved killings, a modern-day pro-Devil conspiracy and some new scholarship about the father of our country. Television Review: In ‘Sleepy Hollow,’ Crane and His Nemesis Land in the 21st Century 2013-09-15T21:55:39Z "Jurassic Park" thrilled audiences in 1993 with its modern-day dinosaurs developed from DNA in fossils that wreaked havoc upon a theme park where, instead of enjoying the wonders of science, the guests got eaten. Spielberg plans return trip to "Jurassic Park" 2011-07-22T22:42:16Z Unlike most modern-day cereals, Granula was devoid of sugar and instead, made from just graham flour and bran. The top 10 breakfast cereals ranked, according to Reddit 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Plot In early 1930s Berlin, a group of artists reacts to rising fascism, their narrative occasionally interrupted by a modern-day New Yorker named Zillah. My First Produced Play? Ah, I Remember It Well. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z So it stands to reason that the military would reinstate officers who might be described as modern-day Monuments Men. A few good Monuments Men: Saving art from looting and destruction — especially in the Middle East — is a military matter 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Due to Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada establishing a pottery there in the 1920s, St. Ives is also known as a modern-day center of British studio pottery. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z All the modern-day examples tend to star minor WWE wrestlers, go straight to DVD and appear to have a budget of about 12p. The Expendables: get out the body bags 2010-06-15T15:16:00Z In modern-day Los Angeles, a stolen Chaim Soutine painting links Rose, who escaped from Austria on the Kindertransport, and Lizzie, a younger woman mourning her father’s death. Paperback Row 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The last chapter of Ruthless Romans, for example, portrays modern-day Zimbabwe and essentially asks, is this any different? Terry Deary: The man behind the Horrible Histories 2012-07-13T23:10:02Z Mr. Moffat, also a producer of the modern-day Sherlock Holmes series “Sherlock,” recently spoke to Dave Itzkoff about the latest “Doctor Who” holiday special and the challenges of running two shows simultaneously. A Word With: Steven Moffat: Christmases Past, Present and Sci-Fi 2010-12-24T22:27:10Z Gay characters are common on modern-day TV programmes in the US, but many of those shows are exported all over the world. Gay TV characters 'changing world' 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z “Shiv” is part of Kapil’s “Displaced Hindu Gods Trilogy,” which riffs on fanciful modern-day incarnations of Hinduism’s top trinity of deities: Brahma, Vishnu, and, in this case, Shiva. 'Shiv' connects the everyday and the metaphysical at Boston Court 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z When they coined the phrase "girl power" they were hailed as modern-day feminists by some and dismissed as vacuous pop princesses by others. Spice Girls musical tests Girl Power's stamina 2012-12-11T12:29:12Z Kris billed the show as a “modern-day ‘Brady Bunch.’” Keeping Up With the Kardashian Cash Flow 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Not just any baby sitter would do: I imagined a modern-day governess. My bad baby-sitter years 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z We then skip forward 5,000 years to modern-day Kahndaq, a poor yet futuristic country that, for generations, has been under siege by various mercenary groups. ‘Black Adam’ Review: Heroism, but Paint It Black 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z In London, a city I have lived and worked in for close to two decades, there was a tenfold increase in the number of victims of modern-day slavery between 2013 and 2018. Beaten, raped and forced to work: why I'm exposing the scandal of Nigeria’s house girls 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Now the producers of “Confederate” are responding to critics who did not appreciate the fact that HBO greenlit a series written and created by two white men envisioning modern-day slavery. “Game of Thrones” producers defend “Confederate” after backlash 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z And now we turn to the modern-day Branwell Brontë, Rob Kardashian: the brother whose talents have for too long been overshadowed by his flashier sisters. Rob Kardashian fails spectacularly at being a ‘great Husband’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z "Attack the Block" is modern-day David versus intergalactic Goliath story, in which wolf-like, predatory extraterrestrials drop out of the sky and land in a park near a council estate in London. Before John Boyega became "Star Wars" hero Finn, he was far more revolutionary in "Attack the Block" 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Lowry's paintings and sketches continue to intrigue modern-day audiences. Lowry at the Lowry: 200 paintings and drawings brought together in Salford 2012-07-06T11:58:49Z Since Eumedes sought to colonize parts of modern-day Italy, he would have surveyed the land for settlements; Turnus sardonically suggests using his dead body as a measuring stick. The ancient history of adding insult to injury 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z “We like to put people on pedestals — and bring them down,” she said, adding that many people enjoyed a modern-day pantomime. The Enduring Appeal of ‘Wagatha,’ Now on Stage and Screen 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z “West Side Story” transplanted Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” to the streets and gangs of modern-day New York. Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That was Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Before I educate you about these “keen, kooky, modern-day dinosaurs,” let me introduce you to Gaucho’s co-star. Ostriches Don’t Actually Bury Their Heads in the Sand 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Gyda Valtysdottir’s cello takes on the guise of a modern-day Orpheus and the spectral sounds of the underworld as she layers her performance on top of two prerecorded tracks. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Graeber is cautious when writing about modern-day patients who have experienced miraculous recoveries — new treatments that leave them cancer free after all other conventional attempts have failed. Could Immunotherapy Offer a Cure for Cancer? 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z In the first of his sequels, the Pott family is long gone, replaced by the modern-day, biracial Tooting brood, complete with a mom, a 15-year-old daughter who always dresses in black and two sons. Ian Fleming's magical Chitty car flies again 2012-03-08T16:41:14Z Evidence suggests that D.A.R.E. and Scared Straight—modern-day programs similar to the Youth Study—may have been counterproductive, too. The Trouble with Crime Statistics 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Director Damiano Michieletto was restrained but effective in a production that moved the action from 19th century Paris to the French capital of today and the characters from bohemians to modern-day dropouts. Strauss' 'Ariadne,' Puccini's 'Boheme' both please 2012-08-06T23:01:05Z Critics were scathing about the show’s gossamer-thin plot, but McLamore explains that Cats is indebted to the theatrical tradition of a revue, rather than being driven by narrative in the manner of most modern-day musicals. ‘I’ve seen it 703 times!’: Cats superfans on the show’s magical appeal – and the new movie 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Markus published three books of photographs of modern-day cowboys taken on remote ranches, starting in 1985 with “After Barbed Wire: Cowboys of Our Time.” Kurt Markus, Photographer of Cowboys and Models, Is Dead at 75 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z The parable of Lucy and the football became our modern-day version of the myth of Sisyphus. Where has this Barack Obama been? If Obama had governed like this in 2009, he’d be a transformational, historic president 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Those ideas are being reinvigorated now with efforts to launch a modern-day Poor People’s Campaign spearheaded by the North Carolina pastor William Barber. A 50-year-old mystery: Who’s that wading in the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z "Daddy Lessons" samples "Long Time Gone," a 2002 Dixie Chicks song that criticizes modern-day country as music that "ain't got no soul." America needs the Dixie Chicks' candor and audacity now more than ever 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Along with her three sisters, they become the modern-day Jem and the Holograms. Watch the First Trailer for 'Jem and the Holograms' 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z His novel, which was named a 2015 Notable Book by The Washington Post, is a dazzling, disturbing story about a young man trying to free his mother from virtual slavery on a modern-day produce farm. The 2016 finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z In the revival, which is headed for the Ethel Barrymore Theater, Mr. Crudup will play Bernard Nightingale, a modern-day professor investigating Byron’s life. ArtsBeat: Why Wait 200 Years? 'Arcadia' Revival, With Billy Crudup, Coming to Broadway Next Year 2010-12-29T19:17:54Z “He is a modern-day Roald Dahl in how he can weave the humor and the horror into a whimsical and perfectly inappropriate package.” When Henry Selick and Jordan Peele Team Up, Things Get Wild 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z What I’m not seeing are any considerable number of first-rate large-scale Broadway musicals, the modern-day counterparts of such beloved golden-age shows as “Oklahoma!” and “Guys and Dolls.” What’s Wrong With the Broadway Musical? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Gray reinterpreted the ancient geometric patterns found on the magnificent dome of Iran’s early-17th-century Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque in Isfahan—a Unesco World Heritage Monument—into striking, modern-day designs for her latest collection. The Ruby Tree Collection for Harrods 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z What is Burger King’s Mac-and-Cheetos if not a modern-day Karma Sutra of stunt food? Burger King’s Mac n' Cheetos: a logical step in America's quest for innovation 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z But Mr. Musto, who is 54, defies the definition of a modern-day celebrity gossip. 2010-01-29T23:40:00Z Senate more than a dozen years ago to raise awareness about the existence of, and the evils associated with, human trafficking and modern-day slavery. What is human trafficking? 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z My kids are grown, and I don't have to contend with modern-day extreme parenting, which for Amy includes mindfulness classes and organic gardening playgroups. The heavy mask of perfection in "Beef" speaks to many women’s fear of revealing their true self 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z Though Hersov is careful not to push these parallels too far, his staging vividly brings to mind the callous egotism of modern-day Svengalis. Pygmalion 2010-05-18T20:29:00Z The modern-day Abeona — the goddess of journeys — dispenses wisdom like a vending machine. Traveling alone isn’t for everyone — but for these adventurers, it’s the way to go 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Hammond wrote the book for “String,” a modern-day fable that debuted in Washington last year. Three Musical Theater Writers Receive $100,000 Kleban Prizes 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Vincent said the scent works on women of all ages and isn’t overpowering like many of the modern-day fragrances. Old Standbys, New Stand-Ins: Classic Beauty Products That Still Deliver 2012-09-12T22:46:16Z Two novels arrive in October: “Longbourn,” by Jo Baker, “P&P” from the servants’ perspective, and a third installment of the Bridget Jones story, a modern-day adaptation of “P&P” by Helen Fielding. On Austen, New Books, Banknotes and Board Games 2013-08-08T23:29:06Z An 18th-century apothecary covertly sells poison to oppressed women, while a modern-day historian investigates a resulting tragedy. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Timothy Olyphant plays Raylan Givens, a modern-day Kentucky lawman with something of the old west about him, from his boots and stetson to his taste for a shoot first, questions later brand of peacekeeping. Catch-up TV guide: from Dates to Glyndebourne 2013-06-22T05:00:05Z Chris Malone’s modern-day fetish figures, streamlined yet earthy, combine natural and man-made materials. Review | In the galleries: The past invades the present in paintings by Gregory Ferrand 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s between being a traditional singer-songwriter and a modern-day pop star, and more than any of her millennial peers, she balances both sides with aplomb. Ellie Goulding brings pop-star panache to Merriweather Post and still keeps it real 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z The modern-day setting that frames these dramatic events seems comparatively staid, but it serves its own grim purpose by suggesting that little has changed for young women — or even older women. ‘The Girls,’ by Emma Cline: Charles Manson, reimagined 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z I told my friend I wanted to break my brain and put it back together again While descended from Buddhism, the modern-day courses are secular in nature. My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Neary is a modern-day Sherlock Holmes who can see what ordinary people cannot — only where Holmes brings clues to light, Neary is content to linger in the dark. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension provided factual information about modern-day forensics and consulted on the accuracy of the exhibition. Museums Special Section: Entering World of Literature’s Great Sleuth 2014-03-19T20:37:03Z We talked a little bit about the music, the costumes, the locations, what a dreamy and mixed-era approach to what I think was modern-day L.A., and I'm sure this was intentional. Carey Mulligan on "Promising Young Woman," a feminist revenge story for the ages 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Dan Slater’s “Love in the Time of Algorithms” explores the history and modern-day implications of the explosive growth of online dating, now a $2 billion business in North America. The billion-dollar business of online dating 2013-02-28T00:10:44Z Martin is the modern-day Johnnie Cochran, minus the bling and the brashness, but with swag intact. Billy Martin: Washington’s go-to lawyer when you’re in trouble. Real trouble. 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z They were unmasked as the publication date neared, and outcries of privilege, appropriation, racism and modern-day blackface hit the Internet. Weeknight Vegetarian: Black bean tortas, hold the expletives (and the appropriation) They stayed as far away as they could from the modern-day politics that swirled around the rest of the city. ‘No one talks about that. No, no no!’ At a reunion of presidential descendants, don’t ask about Trump. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Watchmen also ploughed a fine period furrow, depicting its superheroes cutting a swath through the 20th century like modern-day Titans in tight-fitting clothing. X-Men: First Class trailer is no Batman Begins 2011-02-11T12:36:34Z The consequences of Dave’s transgression — he’s fired from his teaching job, divorced by his wife and exiled from the modern-day Eden of Omaha, Neb. — leave Jim in an uncomfortable spot. What America Gets Wrong About Tracy Flick 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z With this book, he joins a group of detractors of modern-day American conservatism who are sympathetic to many of the ideas of conservatism but harshly critical of how it is now practiced. ‘Chicagonomics’ and ‘Economics Rules’ 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z It is the latter pair's 400-year-old journey from the Netherlands to New Amsterdam and onwards through modern-day America that provides the heart of the narrative. Mission Drift ? review 2011-08-09T17:30:01Z Whether you want modern-day royalty, supernatural powers or just supernaturally competent women running the show, here are four new romances that will sweep you away. Four Delicious New Romance Novels 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z “They’re still answering the call,” Swanson writes of the modern-day Rangers. The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z It’s the modern-day version of the office pool. How crowdfunding has become the new American way of death 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Aucoin and Ruhl met for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant and decided to adapt Ruhl’s modern-day retelling of the legend focusing on Eurydice’s point of view, rather than Orpheus’ descent to Hades to rescue her. Aucoin’s ‘Eurydice,’ modern retelling of myth, opens at Met 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z “Nomadland” is a portrait of modern-day independence on the American frontier. With quiet humanity, Chloe Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ makes noise 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z These days, the Legion of Honor has a money problem, perhaps a reflection of its diminished status in modern-day French society. | Much Ado About the Legion of Honor 2013-08-02T15:37:00Z As in "Enchanted," that would be modern-day America, this time New England rather than New York. Fairytales with a twist: 'Once Upon a Time' and 'Grimm' 2011-10-22T04:03:04Z Another on HuffPost Women’s Facebook page similarly claimed: “This is the modern-day version of commitment phobia and inability to truly have an emotionally intimate relationship. We can’t be in ‘half’ a relationship. “I want to be single — but with you”: Viral essay’s popularity shows just how terrified people are of conventional couple-hood 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Other exhibits, like “Invisible: Slavery Today,” explore modern-day human trafficking. From Chili to the Underground Railroad, Cincinnati on a Budget 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z But what a remarkable moment for these authors to be thrust into the modern-day spectator sport of book celebration. The book is dead. Long live the book festival. 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The Hollywood studios' industry-wide conversion from 35 mm film to digital satisfies modern-day demands for crisp clarity, cost savings and special effects like 3-D. Digital film switch daunts historic movie houses 2012-02-18T20:16:05Z In Ms. Lawrence’s watchful, precise and quietly heroic performance, Ree is like a modern-day Antigone, making ethical demands that are at once entirely coherent and potentially fatal. | 'Winter?s Bone': Jennifer Lawrence in Debra Granik?s Bleak Ozarks Film 2010-06-10T21:59:00Z Instead, he's drawn into a classic country-house mystery involving eccentric artists, a vandalized tomb and a modern-day murder aping the death of the tomb's resident. New in crime fiction: Benjamin Black and Jacqueline Winspear 2010-04-07T23:22:00Z In a routine for "Revolver", she wielded a Kalashnikov rifle, used by many modern-day insurgents, while one of her dancers favored an Israeli Uzi. Kicking off tour, Madonna shows she's no lady (Gaga) 2012-05-31T22:20:47Z His career move from cushy corporate job to international aid work, which rattles his loved ones, could be a compelling, if familiar, indictment of modern-day complacency. ‘This Space Between Us’ Review: A Do-Gooder Faces a Chorus of Resistance 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z It's one example of a mushrooming number of modern-day versions of the primitive cigar box instruments of yore. Cigar box guitar on a smoking hot roll 2011-04-02T01:32:41Z Corn was brought to numerous European countries by 15th century traders from modern-day Mexico. Why this classic Romanian-Jewish dish is nearly impossible to find 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Meanwhile Hunt returned to his CID world to greet another confused modern-day detective in a mirror of Sam Tyler's arrival in the very first episode of Life On Mars. Ashes to Ashes: co-creator Matthew Graham says goodbye to Gene Hunt 2010-05-21T21:00:00Z In a teepee in remote Washington State, he's raising six children like a modern-day Swiss Family Robinson. 'Captain Fantastic' is a Swiss Family Robinson for today 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “There are still taxonomists,” according to Gollner, “who refer to the paintings in their efforts to unravel the past and contextualize modern-day science.” Perspective | These U.S. Agriculture Department paintings of fruits and nuts are actually stunning 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Mr Gekoski gives this modern-day Scrooge three visitations that pry him open bit by bit, but Darke’s redemption is nothing like what the “slobberer” Dickens would have conjured. “Darke”, an unforgettable figure 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z We started with those car windows, and took detours through the surveillance state, privacy vs. publicity, and modern-day Caribbean pop, appropriated and not. Popcast: The Return of New York Rap 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The show puts the Son of God in modern-day Compton, where he curses, hangs out with drug dealers, changes bottled water into cognac, and smokes blunts. REVIEW: Black Jesus Laughs With, More Than At, Its Son of God 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z It also introduced “Frequency,” the TV version of a 2000 film in which a modern-day woman speaks to her deceased dad, who is still alive in the past, via a dusty ham radio. Opiate for the Masses: “Making History” and “Time After Time” add to this season’s TV travel addiction 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Finally, stand-up comics Kevin Hart and Bill Burr have a half-hour untitled scripted series that's billed as a modern-day take on "The Odd Couple." Comedy Central plans sex talk show, Jesus cartoon 2010-05-06T05:29:00Z Meggido’s play tries to connect the conniving if doomed charmer Johnson may once have acted onstage to the modern-day leader who has been repeatedly called out for deceit. At Edinburgh’s Festivals, Big Names and Live Issues 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Sarah Burton channeled a new take on classicism for a modern-day bride who will one day be queen.” On the Runway: Simplicity Wears the Crown 2011-04-29T20:29:38Z Like a modern-day White Rabbit, he was wearing an enormous orange watch, but didn’t seem to be in any particular hurry. Critical Shopper: Swimsuits at Zimmermann and Malia Mills 2012-06-19T18:14:51Z In 1957, Prince did “West Side Story,” a modern-day version of “Romeo and Juliet” told against the backdrop of New York gang warfare. Towering Broadway director and producer Hal Prince dead 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Tourmaline was the first gem to be excavated by modern-day miners in America; the original dig took place in 1820, on Mount Mica in Paris, Maine. Think Freeport is all outlets? Made in Maine shops will show you otherwise. 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Whoever is his modern-day analog, back in the day — before Annie Hall or Blue Jasmine, —Allen was a stand-up comic. Rare Woody Allen Stand-Up Comedy From the 1960s to Be Released 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Her debut has already attracted praise from the likes of Jonathan Franzen, while Curtis Sittenfeld, the author of American Wife, has hailed it as a modern-day version of The Bell Jar. Confessions in new women's lit: Emily Gould, Meghan Daum and Sloane Crosley 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Certainly the characters who populate his stories are more immediately recognisable and the scenes often unfold in modern-day Manhattan and New Jersey, or a twisted version of those places – "Lipsyteland". The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte – review 2013-07-07T10:00:00Z “Our modern-day trickster god,” he writes, “Bill isn’t just being a clown. He has a tao, a way of being, a philosophy of life.” This Season’s Best Books on Hollywood 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z And in this fantastical modern-day version, there are tensions between the couple from the start. Juilliard Stages an Orpheus Rarity From Opera’s Early Days 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z It was also the first trip for Rebecca Dagnall, a photographer from Perth, Australia, who used modern-day photos to create post-Impressionist landscapes in the tradition of Australia’s 19th-century Heidelberg Art School. A Photo Show Where Exposure Has Two Meanings 2010-09-29T13:15:00Z The violin, the voice of this modern-day Scheherazade, enters playing elegiac lines that keep breaking into skittish flights. Review: John Adams Unveils ‘Scheherazade.2,’ an Answer to Male Brutality 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z What if there were a Taliban parachutist living in a shed in modern-day Garmouth? Nina Bawden's Carrie's War speaks a truth about the ripple effects of conflict 2012-08-24T16:30:00Z In the most magical way, the narrative seems to melt, transforming this modern-day crime into the ancient tale of Pericles. Review | Mark Haddon’s ‘The Porpoise’ sounds like homework. It’s actually fantastic. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, Jefferson nervously eyes Sally on a modern-day subway car. ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z As the Guardian reported in October 2014, bringing the story to nationwide attention for the first time, Lacy began to pose a terrible question: had her son been the victim of a modern-day lynching? Always in Season: behind the painful film about lynching in America 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z That's more than enough money to make a modern-day blockbuster without doing anything as drastic as setting it in Milton Keynes. 'We're gonna need a smaller boat': where should Pirates of the Caribbean 4 make its savings? 2010-05-06T13:13:00Z Grammer described the process as "figuring out a way to update a Shakespearean tragedy into a modern-day tale without being grotesquely obvious." Kelsey Grammer, the Boss of Chicago 2011-07-01T07:00:00Z Her first documentary, “In Our Backyard,” depicts the unspoken world of sex trafficking through the emotional stories of recent survivors and the work of advocates fighting to end this form of modern-day slavery. Sex trafficking in Brooklyn film demands visibility, accountability: “Everyone knows that the police won’t do anything” 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Biologists, virologists and engineers are just some of the modern-day scientists who become “enemies of the people” by trying to save them. Review: In ‘Enemy of the People,’ Water and Democracy Are Poisoned 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z The Reddit user who shared the disgruntled note characterized the neighbor as being a "Karen," a modern-day pejorative used to describe an entitled or unreasonably demanding woman. Dad rips into neighbor who reported family’s tree fort to HOA: 'You’re safe now' 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Kent latched onto these themes in response to a modern-day world filled with outrage and lashing out. When Rape Onscreen Is Directed by a Woman 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Other writers: St. Louis resident and Chinese expat Qiu Xiaolong is the author of the Inspector Chen mysteries, set in modern-day Shanghai. Readers' favorite international mysteries, Part II ? all around the globe 2010-12-29T22:49:04Z “I learned so much from Harvey. . . . When people say he was a modern-day Louis B. Mayer, he was.” Violence. Threats. Begging. Harvey Weinstein’s 30-year pattern of abuse in Hollywood. 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z An artistically satisfying after-hours event goes further than simply throwing together quirky attractions, like a modern-day version of a Victorian fun fair for young professionals. Arts: After-Hours Programs at Bay Area Museums: An Uneven Mix 2010-04-17T00:02:00Z Because implicit in the modern-day identity crisis of what Miss America should be is the assumption that, international health crises aside, she would be delighted to whip up some brownies, crown firmly in place. Former Miss America Kate Shindle Revisits Favorite Haunts 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The prolific and popular author who took readers back to the old American West in his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Lonesome Dove” and returned them to modern-day landscapes in works such as his emotional “Terms of Endearment.” Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The novel centers on a young, poor woodworker named Joshua — the Hebrew name from which “Jesus” derives — who settles in a small town in modern-day New York State. Rev. Joseph F. Girzone, Author of ‘Joshua’ Novels, Dies at 85 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Yes, there is war and death and romance, but this film is meant to be a modern-day throwback to old-fashioned movies, not some highbrow art-house masterpiece. What is Sir Ben Kingsley doing in “The Ottoman Lieutenant”? 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Was it always your intention to play both Ben, the modern-day character, and Herschel, his great-grandfather? Seth Rogen and Seth Rogen on Playing Ancestral Homies 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z The book "Girl Online" is described as "a modern-day Notting Hill for teens, where an ordinary 15-year-old girl’s relationship with an American pop star goes viral as her anonymous blog is exposed to the world." YouTube star Zoella breaks British book sales record 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z “Ultimately, theirs is one of the most riveting stories of our time: a modern-day Greek tragedy about money, power, lies, family, truth and consequences,” a statement from the publisher said. ArtsBeat Blog: Madoffs on Madoff: Publisher Speeds Up Release of Book 2011-09-15T13:43:09Z In the show, a modern-day adaptation of Sherlock Holmes’ detective stories, Watson’s ethnicity is never an issue. Hooray for Joan Watson: Why well-rounded Asian-American characters matter 2014-01-22T23:59:00Z And yet, Joséphine throws us into the modern-day friction of gender, race and power. Discovering Joséphine Bonaparte in Martinique, Italy and France 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Chi-Raq” Spike Lee serves up one of his most exhilarating, heartfelt, urgent movies in years in this wildly imaginative retelling of the ancient Greek play “Lysistrata,” this time transposed to modern-day Chicago. The best movies of 2015: ‘Spotlight,’ ‘Love & Mercy,’ ‘Creed’ make the top 10 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The playwright also uses them to expound on various modern-day trends that seem to irk or amuse him: yoga, food culture, acupuncture. Theater Review: In ‘Why We Left Brooklyn,’ Angst Reigns Supreme 2013-09-06T20:59:52Z That suggested a modern-day action retelling, which was reinforced by the movie's famous point-of-view shot of an arrow zeroing in on its target. Robin Hood's appeal tested again at Cannes 2010-05-12T01:41:00Z And that the modern-day piano wouldn’t be with us if a deaf person hadn’t demanded its existence? I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z A decade ago, he appeared on Broadway in a modern-day production of “Julius Caesar.” Supporting character: Washington-raised actor in two top D.C. series 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Here, Delhomme answers some questions on the modern-day hipster, today's art scenes and provides his take on a still-relevant source of inspiration, Wolfe's "The Painted Word." | 'The Painted Word' 2012-11-07T20:00:17Z Scrooge feels like a modern-day mogul, exploiting warehouse workers on zero-hours contracts. Stephen Graham: ‘The Irishman was my Champions League final’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z We had no trouble rejecting a letter that called someone a modern-day Hitler, a thug or a racist. Running the Park Slope Food Coop newsletter taught me not to believe in conspiracy theories 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z “It’s the modern-day version of watching paint dry, except you might be broken up with by the time the dots deliver.” Texting Anxiety Caused by Little Bubbles 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Her teenage son, Bones, discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town, leading to an adventure that will apparently weave elements of fantasy noir and suspense into a modern-day fairytale. Doctor Who star Matt Smith set to dematerialise in How to Catch a Monster 2013-02-07T12:17:03Z What many don’t know is that this modern-day slavery happens right here in the United States. The scourge of human trafficking: It’s not just other countries’ problem 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z The cast of characters, which includes double-crossing lawyers, a U.S. attorney and arbitrageurs galore, represents a modern-day version of the barons jockeying for the crown in Shakespeare’s English histories. Seduced by Ayad Akhtar's 'Junk,' the new play that picks apart the Wall Street playbook 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z For one, Payne shot the film in black and white, a rarity in modern-day cinema but a good vehicle for the stark Nebraska landscapes and weathered faces. 'Nebraska' melds melancholy and humor in film homage to heartland 2013-11-13T13:06:00Z I’m not saying that Hannah Montana is a millennial Tiresias — a modern-day seer with supernatural visions of the future — but I’m also not not saying that. 'It's ghost slavery': the troubling world of pop holograms 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z The Walk Free Foundation estimates there are nearly 36 million men, women and children held in modern-day slavery. If We Can’t Measure Slavery, Does It Exist? 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Senate to denounce attacks against him as “modern-day McCarthyism.” Media fight takes on an unusually personal tone 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The modern-day equivalent may be when someone who is addicted to a particular video game insists on giving you a lengthy report on his latest exploits. Movie Review: ‘Man at War,’ Directed by Jacek Blawut 2012-11-22T22:04:44Z But do expect to hear some tasty stories about magic tricks of yore, and to see some pretty baffling modern-day magic by Mr. Cohen as well. Television Review: ‘Lost Magic Decoded,’ With Steve Cohen 2012-10-17T21:55:03Z Her conclusion — about Hamilton, and what she suggests is wishful thinking on the part of many of his modern-day admirers — is blunt. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z The bad guys are modern-day Austrians, portrayed as cold, arrogant enemies of truth and justice. Review: ‘Woman in Gold’ Stars Helen Mirren in Tug of War Over Artwork 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z It was as if the heath scene in King Lear had been turned into a whole play, only set in modern-day Brighton, with lots of gratuitous shots of the beach. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z Precious metal was neither absent from nor undesirable in the region of what is modern-day Peru, and it was used in all kinds of glittery ways. When are feathers worth more than gold? 'Kingdoms' exhibition answers with spectacular finds 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Everything flips in the modern-day second act, with much of the fun coming as actors switch roles. Michael Kahn on a dreamy ‘Cloud 9’ at Studio Theatre 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z He’s mostly irritating, as always, but when on the telephone with his daughter, griping about her modern-day education, his charming-curmudgeon routine comes through. 'Broadchurch' Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: Deep Breaths 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Catch the fall season finale of this newspaper drama created by Tom McCarthy, the director and co-writer of “Spotlight,” an Academy Award best picture winner and one of the best modern-day films about journalism. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Walking Dead’ and the Latin Grammy Awards 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z That’s because the modern-day ha-ha! probably evolved as a form of communication. 13 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Laughing 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Weiss has delivered a praiseworthy and concise brief against modern-day anti-Semitism, but if she thinks this long tradition is ultimately compatible with contemporary American liberal beliefs, she might want to take a closer look. The Persistence of the Oldest Hatred 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z But in modern-day life, there is no more going to Grandma and making pickles or anchovies.” I ate lunch with a legendary Sicilian cook and didn’t even know it 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Production Code enforcer Joseph Breen scrupulously monitored “Road to Zanzibar” to forestall any unseemly displays of female flesh, Giddins notes dryly, “while expressing no qualms about depicting a public slave market in modern-day Zanzibar.” Review | How Bing Crosby bounced back from personal and professional malaise 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Arthur has little, if any, connection to the modern-day Purdue Pharma other than the fact that he owned a third of the company’s first incarnation, Purdue Frederick, until his death in 1987. Patrick Radden Keefe Lays Bare a Drug Crisis Fueled by Family Greed 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Ghesquière’s modern-day stray cats had patchwork jackets sassed up with leopard print, but also great tailored pieces, like cocooning, almost corseted-looking blazers. Louis Vuitton Cruises in Japan 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Half a century later, Hendrix’s spirit lives on in some of Seattle music’s modern-day luminaries — as do the effects of racism Hendrix endured throughout his lifetime. 50 years after death, Jimi Hendrix continues shaping Seattle music, as same racial inequities persist 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Basilio came across as the operatic prototype of a cynical, modern-day political operative whose repertory of dirty tricks has hardly dated. Trump Has Changed a Night at the Opera, Too 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The answers—in modern-day interviews—make us rue the losses even as we thrill to the evidence that this or that alum is still with us. When America acted up against AIDS 2012-09-30T14:01:00Z The High Museum is still planning its exhibition, while MFA Houston curator Alison de Lima Greene said the museum will focus on portraiture and celebrity from ancient times to modern-day selfies. The Obamas are going home to Chicago — in portrait form, at least 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z So this weekend faces two daunting challenges: to vanquish his enemies in mythological Norway and modern-day New Mexico, and to top 's $86.2-million box-office haul. Thor: A Minor Marvel 2011-05-04T17:05:00Z It’s the simple reason “Second Act,” her first film in three years and her long-awaited return to the glossy, modern-day fairy tale, exists. With ‘Second Act,’ Jennifer Lopez makes her own opportunity 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Then I reached out to some modern-day late-night hosts and really picked their brains. "Maisel" and "Veep" star Reid Scott on why he loves playing "the bully types" 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Activist ambitions fully come into play in the final gallery, where we are urged to become “modern-day abolitionists.” Exhibition Review: An Unseen Evil Still Ensnaring Countless Souls 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z Powerfully written and narratively creative, “A Woman Like Her” is less a conventional biography than it is an examination of modern-day Pakistan. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Director Jean-Louis Martinoty and his crew place the action at the turn of last century but with the pomp and color that even modern-day Italy has to offer. Going to hell in style: 'Don Giovanni' in Vienna 2013-03-08T13:30:14Z In 2019, I started to research the story, not knowing that my explorations made me a member of a curious, modern-day venture that paralleled its historical counterpart: the Parker expedition writers. What Happens When Everyone Is Writing the Same Book You Are? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z “Vinegar Girl,” Anne Tyler’s modern-day version of “Taming of the Shrew,” just passed through last month. Ian McEwan’s ‘Nutshell’: A tale of betrayal and murder as told by a fetus 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z “Once upon a time there was a tiki bar, and that was these fantasy environments, and this, in a way, is a modern-day equivalent of a tiki bar,” said Drink Company’s Derek Brown. Game of Thrones pop-up bar opens: 'DC always was King's Landing' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Shultz touted a skill he thinks modern-day politicians lack: his self-proclaimed ability to unite Americans by building bridges across divided factions. Howard Schultz shuts down Meghan McCain's abortion complaint: "Culture wars" are a distraction 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z "Location sharing may seem like an innocuous way to build mutual trust in modern-day relationships, but even the closest relationships should maintain a level of personal privacy," ExpressVPN’s Sean O’Brien told Fox News. 1 out of 4 Americans are tracking an ex’s real-time location 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z A modern-day version might exist in AR Wear, a crowdfunded prototype of a woman’s panty with locks at the waist and the legs. Locking panties and man-repelling bracelets: Is this what the women of 2018 need? 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z He belonged in spirit to a different era and later made public his discontent with modern-day Britain. Bill Pertwee obituary 2013-05-27T16:13:38Z The film will be set in modern-day New York with a selection of new songs added. Thompson confirms Annie script 2012-05-17T06:01:09Z It is a grittier, modern-day makeover of the series, which had long ago begun to invite ridicule. Rise of the reboots gives new life to Rocky and Ghostbusters 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Though the wooden buildings sat quiet for 60 years after the mining company pulled out of Kennecott and people deserted both towns, several have been restored and repurposed for modern-day visitors, without too much updating. In Alaska, Slowing Down to Take Things In 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Even less permanent than framed images is Cleveland’s Polaroid project: She bought a modern-day version of the instant camera and hangs the prints up on clothespins around her house. Ideas for displaying and managing your vacation photos The main difference is that “Fifty Shades of Grey” and its two sequels, “Fifty Shades Darker” and “Fifty Shades Freed,” are set in modern-day Seattle and mix sexting with spanking. Critic?s Notebook: ?Fifty Shades of Grey?: S-and-M Cinderella 2012-04-02T21:58:46Z He knows the idea will strike some as tawdry, but he describes Kate and William: A Very Public Love Story as a modern-day romance. Wills'n'Kate: the comic book 2011-01-16T22:00:00Z Child abuse cuts a jagged scar through Morrison’s novel, a brisk modern-day fairy tale with shades of the Brothers Grimm, and a blunt moral: What you do to children matters. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Records of cidermaking date to the Roman Empire, and many historians believe the Romans discovered it while invading what is now modern-day England. It’s the Season for Cider. Here’s How to Drink It. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z If you're cast as a historical character, think of a modern-day equivalent. How to act: stage stars share their acting tips 2012-11-28T19:30:02Z Johnson's feature debut - 2005's "Brick," a verbally stylized film noir set in a modern-day Southern California high school, also starring Gordon-Levitt - signaled him as an ambitious filmmaker with a distinctive voice. Review: `Looper' takes you to unexpected places 2012-09-26T01:55:08Z There are also hundreds of bobbleheads, ranging from a relatively rare, ceramic Milwaukee Braves model from the 1960s to rows of modern-day players. A bobblehead museum! Wait, you’re shaking your head? 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Homer’s Ulysses referred to Capri’s coast as the realm of sirens, mythological beings who enticed sailors to their death, and these appeared as modern-day versions. Pucci Returns to Capri 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z For the English National Opera, he set “Parsifal,” Wagner’s meditation, drawn from medieval legend, on sexual passion and love, in a stark, modern-day concrete bunker. Nikolaus Lehnhoff, German Opera Director, Dies at 76 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z For the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Va., that means converting its ticket-buying lists into class lists and turning some of what’s executed on its modern-day Renaissance stage into teachable moments online. To survive, this Shakespeare troupe is offering online classes and videos. Are branded masks next? 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z “Provenance,” a program the cellist Maya Beiser presented at Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday night, proposes a modern-day analogue with evocative modern works inspired by historical sources. Music Review: Maya Beiser?s Multicultural Harmonies at Poisson Rouge 2010-04-18T22:55:00Z The New Group's modern-day production, "Clive," set in the 1990s and directed by and starring Ethan Hawke, opened Thursday off-Broadway at Theatre Row. Review: Ethan Hawke mines noir humor in 'Clive' 2013-02-08T03:08:08Z The palatial home and studio seemed a coup for an artist in modern-day Manhattan. On Location: Chelsea: A Painter Stretches 2014-04-02T23:17:21Z Although today's traffic in the background is undeniable, the audio weaves such modern-day details into its narrative. Joining Tolkien's childhood walk 2013-06-18T07:37:30Z Writing for the comedy "Rutherford Falls" allows Chavez to address such tensions and dueling narratives while also having fun with the modern-day relationships some Natives have to history and identity. "There's so many Natives who are jokesters": Native comedy redefines patriotism & busts stereotypes 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Live action short went to "God of Love" by Luke Matheny, who thanked his mother for doing craft services during shooting the film about a modern-day Cupid. Colin Firth wins lead actor; 'King's Speech' best movie 2011-02-28T04:34:23Z In the 1770s, more than half of the town’s 1,800 residents were Black, though visitors to the modern-day recreation would not always have known it. Building a Better Colonial Williamsburg 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z A modern-day parable of underdogs taking on bullies, it quickly found millions of readers. Ronni Solbert, Children’s Book Illustrator, Dies at 96 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Is some modern-day Eddie Haskell reading this updated paperback today and extracting only Carnegie’s verbal tricks for ingratiating himself and manipulating others? ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People’: Why the granddaddy of self-help endures 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z The guru himself looks around his fancily renovated house “like a modern-day Alexander with no worlds left to conquer.” Books of The Times: A Vanishing and a Chance to Do Penance 2010-10-27T22:14:00Z Also keep an eye out for Michelle Boulé, Sarah Michelson and Yanira Castro, who transplants “Court/Garden,” her modern-day court spectacle, to Federal Hall. 50 Essential Summer Festivals 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Festival plans 'new world' theme The modern-day culture of the "new world" will be explored in this year's Edinburgh International Festival. New world theme at Edinburgh fest 2010-03-17T10:06:00Z Nearly all of these travel narratives read like fiction to a modern-day reader. Amid the pandemic, a writer finds inspiration in century-old travel stories 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The Dutch established colonies in modern-day Brazil, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Java – and on Manhattan, too. The full story of the British empire is yet to be told 2012-12-28T19:31:12Z As she walked down the aisle of the same Spanish monastery in North Miami Beach, Fla., where her parents were also wed, Ms. Cerrato-Jorge said she felt like a modern-day princess. Real Wedding Day Looks 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Dealing with themes of modern-day slavery, the track features vocals from Frank Ocean. Kanye West to call his new album Yeezus 2013-05-20T11:09:14Z A panel afterward included discussion of mass incarceration, which some have equated to modern-day slavery. Can the new ‘Roots’ help us understand America’s current racial divide? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Fear not, because here's my completely authoritative beginner's guide to modern-day Channel 5. How to watch Channel 5 2013-07-24T14:49:35Z Other key roles includes a swashbuckling turn in The Vikings and his performance as a doomed modern-day cowboy in 1962’s Lonely are the Brave. Kirk Douglas, Hollywood legend and star of Spartacus, dies aged 103 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z A modern-day TV update of the 1989 film “Heathers” debuts on Paramount Network. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Heathers’ and ‘Citizen Kane’ 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Her prominence depended almost entirely on her gusto for extravagant living, piquant quips about jewels and sex, and her self-help tips for the modern-day paramour. Zsa Zsa Gabor, high-living actress of outrageous wit, dies 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Her long, strawberry blond locks are generally parted deeply at one side, so that about two-thirds of it cascades down the side for a modern-day, more laid-back version of Lake's famous 'do. Stars are flipping for the latest style in hair 2011-06-20T17:33:29Z Set over three different watershed periods in the history of modern-day liberalism, the play unfolds in a living room where history receives some behind-the-scenes nudging. When a 'City of Conversation' becomes a union divided: Political factions propel drama at the Wallis 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z He visited the exhibit designed to simulate a modern-day correctional facility, where visitors can pick up a phone and hear actual accounts of imprisoned people. Tips for taking children to the new Legacy Museum and lynching memorial in Alabama 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z “If you’re a modern-day teenage rebel with a hardcore lifestyle, we want to hear your story.” TV show seeks teen rebels 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z This theme of colonial haunting is expanded with raucous invention in Moffatt’s “BeDevil,” which draws on Aboriginal folklore to tell a series of modern-day gothic tales. Rediscovering Australia’s Generation of Defiant Female Directors 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Gliding across the stage, leading his band and engaging the crowd like a modern-day James Brown, Chance was in fine form. In its third home, Trillectro festival finds its strongest beat yet 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z The five finalists range from World War II Poland to modern-day Israel and Quebec, from an Iranian divorce court to the bruising world of Belgian cattle-rearing. Iranian film in running for foreign language Oscar 2012-01-24T18:43:16Z Seneca was, as the Op-Ed writer puts it, “the adult in the room” in these tense episodes, quite literally in a case where the emperor, in modern-day terms, was still a legal minor. Seneca Could Have Written the Anonymous Times Op-Ed About Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z In the statement, he said that “Exhibit B” seeks to expose the modern-day dehumanization of minorities. A Racially Charged Exhibition in London Is Canceled After Protests 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Those qualities are helping Lennox stand out in the modern-day R&B climate. Ari Lennox is R&B’s next star. Ask anyone (except her). 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Young Thug also shows up twice, delivering mystical singing on “Sacrifices” and showing why he’s the clearest modern-day inheritor of P-Funk on “Ice Melts.” Review: Drake the Creator Meets Drake the Curator on ‘More Life’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Those pen-and-ink soldiers, in the pages of Horwitz’s many books, came to life in their descendants, champions of the Confederacy, modern-day Klansmen, anguished, angry, and haunted. Tony Horwitz, a Historian Who Reckoned Fearlessly with the Legacy of the Civil War 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z It’s been two decades since Indian writer Arundhati Roy startled the world with her debut novel, “The God of Small Things,” which won the Booker Prize and became a modern-day classic. Review | We waited 20 years for her follow-up to ‘The God of Small Things.’ It was worth it. 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z And that formula is executed with particular skill in “Black Sails,” thanks to some strong performances and an exploration of the consequences of greed that could have come out of modern-day Wall Street. In ‘Black Sails’ From Starz, Pirate’s Booty Is at Stake 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z And thus we return to my central question: what, actually, is the point of the modern-day explorer? The Great Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison ? review 2011-01-15T17:47:01Z Or, if push comes to shove, record an album of spoken-word cover versions of modern-day pop songs, like Shatner's The Transformed Man. Dyer straits: how can Danny save his career? 2010-08-19T21:00:00Z The project is part of an international publishing initiative that aims to retell the Bard's plays for a modern-day audience. Crime king Jo Nesboe's tale of revenge has echoes of his own father 2014-04-10T09:28:43Z It could take place in modern-day England or the Homeric age of heroes. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z What Too Short was to 1980s corner walkers, this group is to the modern-day pole dancer. New Music: New Releases From Travis Porter and Melody Gardot 2012-05-28T22:04:52Z However, even they do better than older women such as Judy Murray, who end up portrayed as a modern-day version of Lady Macbeth, only this time with added Robinson's barley water. Why does Judy Murray have to take these punches? 2013-07-13T23:06:05Z But what begins as a riff on “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” morphs into a modern-day “Doll’s House.” Theater Review: ‘Playing With Grown Ups’ by Hannah Patterson at 59E59 2014-05-07T19:39:05Z A 2015 Oxford University study found the majority of African Americans and modern-day Yoruba people in West Africa have a similar ancestry, confirming that the region was a major source of African slaves . The story behind the design of the African American history museum 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Il Gran Mogol will receive its modern-day premiere in Perth, Scotland, in January. Vivaldi flute concerto discovered 2010-10-07T09:26:00Z Liberated from the Ottoman Empire in 1878, Plovdiv became the capital of autonomous Eastern Rumelia, before being folded into modern-day Bulgaria. Next Stop: In Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Roman Grandeur East of Italy 2012-10-12T18:41:24Z A pre-meal photograph is traditionally a family ritual, a modern-day version of saying grace. The First Family of Instagram 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z But in following two young women employed as range riders in Idaho, the film presents its own modern-day picture of hard work and camaraderie. ‘Bitterbrush’ Review: Alone on the Range 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Still, there is an invigorating power all its own to Pointless’s application of modern-day digital vocabulary to the futurism of Depero. Perspective | Pointless Theatre looks inspirationally to the past, and thrillingly sees the future 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z His taste in music might be considered unlikely for a modern-day arts impresario. She Sang. So Did His Heart. 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z I was an awkward teenager who was immediately mesmerized by Jason Miller’s exploration of modern-day masculinity, and although I’ve reread the play several times, I’ve never had the opportunity to see it. Spring Performance: Theater: Been There, Done That, and Now Going to This 2011-02-20T02:01:27Z She looks less like Wonder Woman and more like a modern-day urban hipster with perhaps a costume on under her clothes. Wonder Woman's new duds spark interdimensional ire 2010-07-02T21:13:00Z In Ball’s account, Nancy Pelosi is as tough as bullets and knows how to count votes, negotiate and herd her tribe — lost skills in American politics, atrophied in the modern-day rush to preen and tweet. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Is it possible for any modern-day human to ever be completely ethical and virtuous, and can the universe forgive us if we make our best effort and fall short nevertheless? "The Good Place" tenderly approaches the final answer in its midseason finale 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Fried's photographs are shot from above, so that they look like paintings, with the food arrangement becoming a modern-day still life. Food as art: it looks almost too good to eat 2012-08-03T22:00:40Z The Skirball Center continues its role as a host for the National Theater Live series, which is broadcast via satellite from London to audiences worldwide, with a screening of Nicholas Hytner’s modern-day “Othello” on Sept. ArtsBeat: Skirball Center Announces Its New Season 2013-08-04T22:07:23Z As Sasha Stone at Awards Daily accurately points out, this kind of negative campaigning has unfortunately become a trademark of the modern-day Oscar season. A History of Oscar Smear Campaigns 2010-03-03T23:44:00Z Though her settings are of rented apartments, hospitals which no longer serve the modern-day needs of the survivors, and, distinctively, of the loneliness of post-wall Berlin, her spirit is solidly within the highest German traditions. Alice by Judith Hermann ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:06Z “They're modern-day samurais,” Mr. Ito said, referring to the long hours and travel they put in before returning home each day. Traveling Across Japan 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Despite his clip-on tie, Jende gets the job as a full-time driver , and so begins a kind of modern-day “Driving Miss Daisy.” ‘Behold the Dreamers’: The one novel Donald Trump should read now 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Nightingale became famous after she and a small team of nurses traveled to modern-day Istanbul to treat British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War, in which British, French and Ottoman forces fought the Russian Empire. Florence Nightingale show presents nursing pioneer who told us to wash hands 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The legacy of the Cardiff chartered surveyor has meant the trust has become the modern-day equivalent of the Davies sisters who donated French Impressionist art and other works a generation earlier. Legacy makes surveyor a giver of art 2013-06-30T08:05:48Z Something like a modern-day “M*A*S*H,” “68 Whiskey” centers on a group of United States Army medics. What’s on TV Wednesday: An Adventure Series and ‘68 Whiskey’ 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z I tried to do a modern-day adaptation but it didn't work. A Minute With: Vikramaditya Motwane on O. Henry in Bollywood 2013-07-05T05:13:30Z Pet Sematary by Stephen King A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books. Carlos Ruiz Zaf?n's top 10 20th-century gothic novels 2010-06-02T09:17:00Z I immediately gravitated to the David Reimer and Dr. Money story, and was just looking into what the modern-day relevance was. "They're tired of explaining their own bodies": Intersex folks counter right-wing hate and shaming 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Set in modern-day Haiti, “An Untamed State” is the story of an American lawyer who’s kidnapped while visiting her rich parents in Port-au-Prince. Book review: ‘An Untamed State,’ by Roxane Gay But more guarded references to modern-day events kept breaking through. U2 scans new political landscape at U.S. 'Joshua Tree' tour debut 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The philistines and modern-day know-nothings are on the march, and they all seem to show up at the Trump rally. We let the idiots take the wheel: Donald Trump, Fox News and how we let our democracy rot 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z In the current issue of Harper’s Bazaar, Ms. Allred is photographed dressed in armor as a modern-day Joan of Arc. The Avenger: Gloria Allred 2010-06-18T22:27:00Z The first half of the film is anchored by accounts of maltreatment, and also explores the uncomfortable history of eugenics in the United States; the second half looks at the modern-day push for justice. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Black Narcissus’ and ‘My Psychedelic Love Story’ 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z By contrast, his student Aristotle, interested in examining the world around him and trying to explain it, is a better fit as a precursor to the modern-day scientist. Has Physics Lost Its Way? 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Interspliced with the past is behind-the-scenes footage of the modern-day play “The Nap” as it navigates Broadway, with a disappointing first read-through and nerves throughout. ‘On Broadway’ documentary offers hope for New York theater 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z In this alternate history, Mr. Winters imagines a horrific modern-day America where the Civil War never happened, and slavery still exists. 12 New Books We’re Reading This Summer (and 6 Not So New) 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The show will also take inspiration from a modern-day hit, "Orange Is the New Black," in its storytelling approach, Nagle said. 'Red Band Society' takes its cues from 'The Breakfast Club,' 'My So-Called Life' 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z The series as a whole aims to avoid easy formulas and, instead, to exhibit the heterogeneity and individuality of modern-day witches, Denny told me recently, adding, “I’m not pinning these women down.” The Many Faces of Women Who Identify as Witches 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z In his basement, as a broke, out-of-work pizza guy, he invented the modern-day bulletproof vest from his own ingenuity. Meet the narcissistic inventor of the bulletproof vest who "endangered as many lives as he saved" 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Visitors walk through a room in which black actors portray both historical human exhibits as well as modern-day asylum-seekers. Art show called off after protests 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z It is just that in our modern-day lives, in which we spend the vast majority of our time sitting down, we aren’t living up to our potential. Raise the bar: a beginner's guide to lifting weights 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z In her 1996 collection, “Meadowlands,” she weaves together the figures of Odysseus and Penelope from Homer’s Odyssey with the story of the dissolution of a modern-day marriage. Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The end result is a new kind of National album — still dark and neurotic, obsessed with modern-day paranoia, but also bursting with an unlikely optimism and a very 2013 zest for life. The National Breathes Confidence on Trouble Will Find Me 2013-05-23T11:00:22Z This, he said, was one of seven “copper mines” dug by residents eager to make their fortunes, the equivalent of a modern-day trip to an Atlantic City casino. South Mountain Reservation in Essex County, N.J. 2012-07-12T21:26:53Z Like a modern-day alchemist, he counted drops of essential oils — oak moss, rose, sandalwood, sweet basil, rosemary and bergamot — into a glass beaker, occasionally pausing to contemplate his potion. The Met Conductor Fabio Luisi Seduced by Creating his Own Perfumes 2014-03-06T00:46:01Z Festival musicians present the modern-day premiere of suites from a previously unknown 18th-century Parisian manuscript, assembled for “little evening concerts” of favored music for Louis XIV. What’s playing around town, classically speaking, Jan. 20 edition 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Mitchell, who felt too old to play the role again — though he is writing a sequel for himself as a modern-day Hedwig — said Mr. Harris was his first choice for Broadway. Neil Patrick Harris Prepares for ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ 2014-02-19T13:00:18Z It’s a modern-day tale that starts with the young madame emerging from the ashes of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki. The Carpetbagger: New Zealand Vampires and Nazi Zombies at Sundance 2013-12-05T21:03:46Z The “Great Wall” is a bit of a misnomer, as there was never one single structure that spanned modern-day China. Hiking the authentic Great Wall of China, without the crush 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Recently, she sat down with The Associated Press to talk about her long career and thoughts on modern-day cooking. At 88, cookbook legend finds new audience online 2012-06-28T15:23:08Z The modern-day "King Arthur" hits the road with performances in Seattle and Port Townsend. Free performances for kids star a dinosaur, and bullied fifth-graders 2011-07-14T19:43:07Z I even felt that that way from time to time in Mr. Hytner’s celebrated “Henry V” in 2003, also starring Mr. Lester, which transplanted the Battle of Agincourt to modern-day Iraq. ArtsBeat: London Journal: Shakespeare’s Liars and Lovers 2013-07-05T15:47:54Z Perhaps Mr. Mulheron is commenting on modern-day concerns about the food supply. Critic’s Notebook: Horror Films at the Tribeca Film Festival 2013-04-17T22:10:07Z It’s strange that these dramas opted for noncommittal protagonists because both clearly want to engage with the real world — with history and modern-day events. ‘Judas’ Is the Latest Political Movie to Punt on Politics 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z A decade ago, I visited an ice house in Madras, modern-day Chennai – now known as Vivekananda House – an engineering marvel. The icy backstory to that "clink clink" you’ll hear when raising a toast to the end of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Echoes of Lindbergh's fearmongering are still heard in the speeches of modern-day politicians. Charles Lindbergh's unapologetic bigotry: How he became the face of the America First Committee 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Tribesmen in Qatar whose relatives span the modern-day borders of the Arabian Peninsula say the boycott is threatening traditions dear to them including camel herding and falconry. Camels caught up in Qatar feud reunited with their owners 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z America’s modern-day version of ketchup is a far cry from its supposed origin as kechap, a Southeast Asian sauce made of fish entrails and soybeans that dates to the 17th century. ’Chups: Fruit ketchups stirred up by a couple with a passion for condiments Traversing Central and Eastern Europe, New York, California, the Southwestern U. S., Buenos Aires, and Haiti, Reines resembles a cosmic outlaw, a modern-day wandering Jew, whose errancy and alienation disrupts illusions of order. The Apocalyptic Visions of Ariana Reines 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z But Mr. Mazzetti focuses on the distinctive, modern-day practice of targeted killing, particularly through the use of drone strikes. Books of The Times: ‘The Way of the Knife,” by Mark Mazzetti 2013-04-24T21:39:27Z Since the 1980s, she has been the icon of the National Front, which celebrates her every year as the personification of Gallic pride and purity in the face of the country’s modern-day invaders: immigrants. | The Koan of Joan 2012-01-06T22:30:09Z I often wonder how Beethoven would react to modern-day hearing aids considering his great frustration with the ear trumpets of his day. I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z For ages 8-12: Kara, a young orphaned girl in modern-day China, discovers the meaning of family in this inspiring story told in verse. Bunnies and monsters get along; a yoga mystery | Local books 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Here, you'll find traditional methods for cooking risotto in a large skillet or saucier, as well as a modern-day technique, which calls for cooking risotto in an Instant Pot. The silkiest, creamiest, absolute best risotto recipes 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z The Kingdom of the Kongo was a centralized state with a monarch, or Manikongo, whose seat was at M’banza-Kongo, which is in modern-day Angola. An Unsettling Visit to “Kongo” 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z "Killing Them Softly", a modern-day gangster tale starring Brad Pitt, was one of five U.S. productions in competition and won warm plaudits from critics, as did "Mud" by Jeff Nichols. Past winners lead the pack for Cannes film award 2012-05-26T22:17:44Z Some of the renderings in her Touchstone Gallery show are precise enough for a modern-day Audubon, but she mixes realistic creatures with cartoonish sketches and diagrams of origami avians. In the galleries: Putting a fine point on colored pencil drawings 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z The theater was hushed throughout the screening, with little or no texting on phones - a sign of a healthily absorbed audience in modern-day Iraq. Letters from Baghdad shows Iraq through eyes of British female explorer and spy who shaped it | Reuters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Noel Gallagher, a fan, provides some modern-day context and comic relief. The Album Art Studio That Made Pink Floyd’s Pig Fly 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z In July 1799 they landed in Cumaná on the coast of New Andalusia, in modern-day Venezuela. Man of the world 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z “A parable of social mobility and selling out” that “often plays like a modern-day musical,” Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday noted. The original ‘Hamilton’ stars aren’t throwing away their shots 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z This year, Woodstock, one of the early music festivals which - along with the Monterey Pop festival - arguably laid the foundations for the modern-day music festival, celebrates its 45th anniversary. Woodstock 45 years on 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Those few performances that had the potential to be interesting—a tribute to a legend, or a modern-day icon’s return to the stage—seemed waylaid by bizarre, seemingly self-sabotaging production choices. Here Are the Best and Worst Moments of the 2016 Grammys 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Now artists use his likeness as a means to comment on the state of modern-day India, particularly the rise of right-wing politics in the country. The Many Faces of Gandhi 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z When it was released in theaters less than a month ago, “The Invisible Man” looked like a breakout hit with a topical twist: This modern-day adaptation of the H.G. Elisabeth Moss on ‘Invisible Man’: Turn Off the Lights, Turn Up the Volume 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z I was nearly late because Notting Hill is essentially a modern-day version of King Minos’s labyrinth. Blind date: ‘He made it clear that he doesn’t share food’ 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z On a more in-depth level, I witnessed a lifestyle of old tribal traditions that was slowly integrating modern-day capitalism and global connectedness. Among the native tribes in the Amazon Jungle There is no American filmmaker I can think of who tackles our modern-day culture wars and their historical roots with anything approaching Jude’s honesty, wit or intellectual rigor. ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ Review: No Sex, Please, We’re Romanian 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The Blade of Jealousy Staged reading of Henry Ong’s modern-day adaptation of 17th-century Spanish playwright Tirso De Molina’s romantic farce “Jealous of Herself.” L.A. theater openings, Aug. 28-Sept. 4: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' and more 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Thus we see the headstrong and belligerent Thor - played by Australian actor Chris Hemsworth - banished from the distant realm of Asgard by his father Odin to modern-day New Mexico. Big Thor 2011-04-26T07:24:15Z Which raises the broader question of whether we need these modern-day versions at all. Margaret Atwood rewrites Shakespeare. Who will do it next — Gillian Flynn? Yes. 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z “It was intentional at the outset to try to balance both archetypal, classic story tropes–Singing in the Rain, A Star Is Born–with modern-day existence in L.A.,” Haters Shall Be Lovers In La La Land 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky: It is in the states’ “compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics,” Thomas argued. Why some Black churches aren’t elated about the possible end of Roe 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z It follows a mother and son fleeing Mexico for the United States to escape cartel violence and was described by its publisher as a modern-day version of “The Grapes of Wrath.” On ‘Oprah’s Book Club,’ ‘American Dirt’ Author Faces Criticism 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Despite Carrie's story being written almost 40 years ago, Moore, who developed a strong bond with Moretz during filming, said the film and its messages would still resonate with modern-day audiences. 'Carrie' returns, with more blood, revenge and a feisty makeover 2013-10-19T01:05:26Z He is also considered to be the founding father of the modern-day computer. Imitation Game wins Toronto top prize 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z And so she opens her book with a potent description of black-robed zealots from 16 centuries ago taking iron bars to the beautiful statue of Athena in the sanctuary of Palmyra, located in modern-day Syria. How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The film gathers moving eyewitness accounts of the work’s relevance to modern-day struggles around the globe. Revolution No. 9: Seattle will hear Beethoven’s famed, still-needed work of inclusivity 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Which modern-day Washington county did the Lewis and Clark Expedition NOT traverse? Where in the world? The 2014 Seattle Times Geography Quiz 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Or so it seems to modern-day viewers, seeing her passed from Menelaus to Paris and back again. Art Review: Those Greek Heroes, Sometimes Behaving Badly 2010-10-21T20:45:00Z But he was not totally ready for the coarser realities of the modern-day art market. Discovered After 70, Black Artists Find Success, Too, Has Its Price 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z To Bravo and Harris, the thread was a modern-day Homeric epic. In ‘Zola,’ Janciza Bravo’s cinema of ‘life at high volume’ 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z And herein lies just one of the conundrums that confront even the most casual visitor to modern-day Israel: who lives where, and why, and at what social, economic, religious or cultural cost? Visiting modern-day Nazareth, no longer in biblical times 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z It’s a caper movie, a modern-day Robin Hood tale organized around an elaborate, improbable but curiously plausible heist. Review: ‘Logan Lucky’: Steven Soderbergh and His Motley Band of Thieves 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Smithereens is a gripping modern-day hostage drama, albeit one with a moral that’s basically your mum telling you off at the dinner table. Out of tune: why Miley Cyrus' Black Mirror episode hits the wrong note 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z It's enough to make one wonder what might be the coffee-language currency of a modern-day Kathleen Kelly, dogged owner of an endangered independent bookstore with her earnest, whimsical style and unwavering ethical compass. The extremely '90s history of the flavored latte 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z A Confederate flag-themed bikini and replica of the Titanic are among the absurdities she uses to help illustrate race in modern-day America. Fall reading: 12 books to keep you occupied for the rest of 2020 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The ILO believes modern-day slavery to be worth some US$150 billion a year – three times the yearly profit of Apple, the world’s most profitable company. If We Can’t Measure Slavery, Does It Exist? 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The show's Spotify playlist brings its flawed characters to life with a balanced assemblage of modern-day indie ballads and '90s rock tunes. “Yellowjackets” soundtrack: Listen to this nostalgic playlist from Showtime’s brutal thriller 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z It deals both with the history and spirit of Chicago, and with the lives of a group of struggling modern-day Chicagoans. 'A Twist of Water' moving to re-opened Mercury Theatre 2011-03-28T15:37:52Z I wonder if they see modern-day uprisings and are mentally catapulted into the fires that burned cities in 1968, if they see police brutality and marches, and think of the daily indignities of Jim Crow. Trauma and triumph: my father, his dementia and surviving segregation 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The stories we tell about these foods and the debates surrounding their merits have become part of our modern-day holiday lore. How candy corn became the villain in our modern Halloween lore 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Interlaced through this feverish antique tale is a modern-day story about the making of a horror movie based on the legend of the long-closed Brookhants School. Review | Emily M. Danforth’s ‘Plain Bad Heroines’ mixes up a delectable brew of gothic horror and Hollywood satire 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The hippie rebellion — at least the essence of it — was embraced by the grunge rock generation and the modern-day music festival nomads. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The Justice League was comprised of the modern-day heroes. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Super-Hero Central 2011-04-01T18:02:26Z The newspaper does, however, admit that there is another strand to the narrative which centres on a parallel modern-day romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard. Madonna meets royals to discuss Edward and Mrs Simpson film 2010-10-11T15:56:00Z Ms. Sullivan evolved from a zany, modern-day Lorelei Lee into an interpreter of subtlety and substance, and Ms. Akers from a remote, statuesque figure into a singer of great sensitivity and feeling. Critic?s Notebook: Oak Room at Algonquin Hotel Closes 2012-02-04T01:28:32Z A basketball star is presented with a painting like a modern-day king, while spectators walk past a work by Kara Walker without seeming to even notice it. From the Fringes of Art Basel Miami Beach 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z From dating apps to the blurred lines of defining a relationship, "Man Seeking Woman" uses farce to sometimes parody and sometimes heighten the intricacies of modern-day dating. 'Man Seeking Woman' navigates 'minefield' of Millennial dating 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Warburg was concerned about technology — the Wright Brothers were modern-day “Icaruses” and telegram and telephone technology were threatening myth and nature — as well as anti-Semitism. This Atlas of Art and Memory Is a Wonder of the Modern World 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z In the novel’s longer, modern-day sections, we follow the life of Ailey Garfield, a strong-willed child born in the 1970s. Review | ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z And you will see the messiness of our modern-day families. 'Twist': Surprising new play about Chicago Rahm Emanuel must see 2011-02-25T17:52:50Z He had been chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Advisory Committee during the tribe’s modern-day fight for survival. Review | With ‘The Night Watchman,’ Louise Erdrich rediscovers her genius 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z On their website, the publisher calls her “a trailblazer of the ‘selfie-movement,’” which it describes as the “modern-day self-portrait of the digital age.” The surprising high-art theory behind Kim Kardashian’s “Selfish” 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z We’re repairing stuff that was done over 150 years ago that was put together without modern-day technology. Just Asking: The construction manager for the Capitol dome restoration project on the layers of history 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z She was, she conceded, "a modern-day feminist", and that is probably true, seeing as, if you are a female celebrity, being a "modern day feminist" seems to involve distancing yourself from the word. 'Why are people so reluctant to say they're feminists?' 2013-07-03T18:00:00Z The musical midnight movie classic is getting a small-screen modern-day makeover. Fox Remaking 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' as TV movie 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Adapted, directed and choreographed by Matthew Earnest, after the Rebecca Solnit book, the play traipses from ancient Athens to modern-day Las Vegas, offering an extended meditation on human locomotion as it goes. | 'Wanderlust: A History of Walking': Matthew Earnest?s ?Wanderlust? at Ice Factory Festival 2010-07-15T23:26:00Z His bestselling novels mix the modern-day police procedural with archaeological mysteries. Thriller author Paul Sussman dies 2012-06-06T12:24:43Z Deserts in what is the modern-day Czech Republic? Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z It's more like a central feeling, which, unfortunately, is one echoed by some modern-day mass shooters. “Assassins” is Stephen Sondheim's killer musical that we don’t talk about 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z It’s taken eight years for Cornish to release another feature, and it may feel strange at first to see him at the helm of a modest children’s adventure about a modern-day King Arthur. ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ Review: Cult Director Waxes Arthurian 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The regulations “will cause a modern-day prohibition of products that are recognized worldwide as far less hazardous than cigarettes”, said Gregory Conley, president of the American Vaping Association. FDA to put e-cigarette industry under federal oversight for the first time 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The CBS take on a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, played by Jonny Lee Miller, returned Thursday with all manner of promising plot developments. TV Picks: 'Olive Kitteridge,' 'Elementary,' 'Death Comes to Pemberley' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z In modern-day contexts, it’s most often used in communities, schools and workplaces as a nonpunitive alternative to traditional proceedings involving accusations, arguments and punishment. Perspective | Enough with naming and shaming: It’s time for restorative justice in Hollywood. 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The second chapter opens in modern-day Memphis, which was founded in 1819, just a year after the publication of “Frankenstein.” Review | In ‘Frankissstein,’ Jeanette Winterson brings something zany and intellectual ALIVE! 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z And now modern-day Morley is making the news for other reasons – its literature festival is growing in national reputation. Literature festival puts Northern town on national map 2012-10-06T07:51:35Z “The surface layer of ‘Yellowstone’ is part modern-day Western, part family business saga,” the New York Times critic James Poniewozik wrote about the first season. What’s on TV This Week: Lots of Holiday Specials and ‘Yellowstone’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Here, two modern-day aces take to the skies in original aircraft to discover what fighting was like in a biplane. Aida 2010-06-04T05:45:00Z In a telephone interview, Mr. Sewell said that his research allayed any fears that Lord Melbourne had been too “souped up” for modern-day audiences. A Woman at the Helm, Bringing ‘Victoria’ to Life 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Such is the mixed blessing of fame for Salman Rushdie, whose new novel, “Quichotte,” is a modern-day reimagining of “Don Quixote.” Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a shambling ‘Don Quixote’ for our deceptive era - The Washington Post 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The new book takes place in modern-day New York, but in Ms. Malcolm’s telling it might as well be Leningrad in 1952. Books of The Times: A Murder Trial Unfolds Under a Gimlet Eye 2011-04-26T11:45:00Z Hauser, a onetime advertising and marketing executive, formed the Manhattan Transfer in 1972 as a modern-day throwback to the intricate vocal harmonies of an earlier era. Tim Hauser, founder of the Grammy-winning vocal group Manhattan Transfer, dies at 72 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Other updated elements, such as clean-lined upholstered sofas and chairs, modern-day light fixtures with a vintage flair, and soothing paint colors, also reinforce his ability to seamlessly mix new features with the old. The House Next Door 2010-10-21T15:14:00Z Engaging, meticulously reported treatments of most modern-day true crime cases are fine on their own and generally don't require professional actors to embellish the story. Matthew Modine (and his wig) star in Netflix's diverting "College Admissions" true crime recreation 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Among these are the Grecian antique sculptures known as the Elgin Marbles and the Benin Bronzes from modern-day Nigeria. Easter Island delegation heads to British Museum to lobby for... 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The film hoped to draw audiences by tapping into modern-day anxieties surrounding technology and privacy. 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