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My Take: Country music is for all of us
Lil Nas’ “Old Town Road” was taken off the Billboard Country charts because it says that it’s not country enough. On My Take, Clinton Yates reminds everyone that country music is for everyone.
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Street art of Nipsey Hussle in LA breathes life into legacy
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Along busy highways, on the sides of buildings and inside a school basketball court, more than 50 colorful murals of Nipsey Hussle have popped up in Los Angeles since the beloved…
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Review: A portrait of Rudolf Nureyev in ‘The White Crow’
The great Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev does not come across as particularly likable in “The White Crow ,” Ralph Fiennes’ elegant biopic of his early years. Nureyev is arrogant, cruel, entitled, irritable and deeply…
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1 president, 2,922 portraits make up Chicago art exhibit
CHICAGO (AP) — Rob Pruitt calls it a “monument of a movement.” Visitors to the Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago will see 2,922 portraits of former President Barack Obama. “The Obama Paintings” is Rebuild…
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British stage director Peter Brook awarded Spanish prize
MADRID (AP) — A Spanish foundation has awarded one of the country’s most prestigious awards to British theater and film director Peter Brook for opening “new horizons in contemporary dramaturgy.” The jury that awards the…
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Ukraine police find Impressionist painting stolen in France
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian police have recovered a painting by French Impressionist Paul Signac stolen from a French museum. Police chief Serhiy Knyazev said the 1915 painting depicting the port of La Rochelle was…
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What Leonardo’s depiction of Virgin Mary and Jesus tells us about his religious beliefs
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University (THE CONVERSATION) On the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death, Italian academic Francesco Caglioti’s…
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Passion Play in Brazil shantytown a voice against injustice
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The back streets of Brazil’s biggest shantytown became the stage for an Easter Passion Play that mirrored the realities faced by its residents. For the 27th year in a row,…
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NYC Ballet must rehire 2 dancers fired over nude photos
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Ballet must reinstate two male dancers who were fired for sharing nude photos of women and sexually explicit texts, an arbitrator ruled Friday. The arbitrator decided the…
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Jimmy Page reflects on Led Zeppelin’s legacy and its sound
NEW YORK (AP) — When Jimmy Page was a young student, he had already developed such an inseparable relationship with his guitar that school officials would often confiscate it. “It would be given back at…
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Moves like Jagger: Mick’s partner debuts Stones-themed dance
NEW YORK (AP) — Talk about your “Moves Like Jagger.” The recovering rocker made a stealth appearance at the ballet, slipping backstage to support his partner, Melanie Hamrick, as she presented her new dance based…
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10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. CONGRESS MULLS NEXT STEPS AFTER RELEASE OF MUELLER REPORT It’s now up to Congress to decide…
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Ai Weiwei remembers disappearance of 43 Mexican students
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s interest in studying human rights around the world led to his meeting with relatives of the 43 college students who disappeared in southern Mexico in 2014. That…
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Analysis: Mueller paints a damning portrait of the president
WASHINGTON (AP) — To Donald Trump, the start of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation looked alarmingly like the end of his presidency. So he tried to stop it. His months-long effort pushed the boundaries of…
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USA TODAY BEST-SELLERS
1. “Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson’s Journal” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books) 2. “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 3. “Life Will Be the Death of Me…and You…
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