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Top Picks: 'Boundaries,' 'Part-Time Genius' podcastLearn more about the world鈥檚 longest above-water mountain chain by watching 'The Wild Andes'聽on the Smithsonian Channel,聽PBS broadcasts the Broadway production of 'An American in Paris,' and more top picks.
What are you watching? Readers recommend 'Out of Africa,' 'Cherif'Monitor TV and movie fans share what they've been watching lately.
In a WordBorrowed words spice up EnglishEnglish tends to gobble up useful foreign words.聽Some wonderful words are not even knocking on the door of English, however.
Community building: Chicago experiment links libraries and apartmentsCities are thinking in new ways about how to use urban space and create opportunities for interaction. In Chicago, a pairing of affordable housing and libraries could affect relations across race and class.聽
King Tut on exhibit as views of antiquities evolveThe exhibition embarks on a tour during a time when views among the public seem to have been changing about the true ownership of ancient artifacts that were taken from the countries where they were discovered.聽
In 鈥楾he Guilty,鈥� a police dispatcher races against timeThe movie is Denmark鈥檚 entry for the Oscar for best foreign language film.
'The Kindergarten Teacher' is worth seeing for Maggie Gyllenhaal鈥檚 performanceIn the film, Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Lisa Spinelli, a teacher who is at first intrigued, then entranced, and finally obsessed by 5-year-old Jimmy, a pupil with a prodigious gift for writing poetry.
Top Picks: The Plantsnap app, 'The Good Cop' on NetflixThe Broadway show 'Wicked' is celebrating its 15th anniversary on Broadway with 'A Very Wicked Halloween' on NBC, the movie 'First Reformed' stars Ethan Hawke as a pastor who struggles with what to do after hearing about a radical environmentalist and his views, and more top picks.
What are you watching? Readers recommend 'Black Panther,' 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'Monitor TV and movie fans share what they've been watching lately.
In a WordCenturies of fighting over the apostropheWe now have a rough consensus that an apostrophe signals the possessive and a plain聽s聽the plural, although there is still debate about a few points.
Will networks continue to show interest in adapting web series by people of color?As web creators continue to tell authentic, compelling stories about what it is like to live as a person of color, will networks continue to demonstrate interest in adapting their stories, particularly as consumers demonstrate their interest in more diverse programs?
How new murals on old walls are energizing an Italian town'Overtourism' may vex venerated art cities like Rome and Venice. But for a village where population decline is the more common Italian challenge, new works by visiting artists are drawing welcome visitors.聽聽
From moccasins to Louboutins: an evolution of indigenous artAmerican Indian art encompasses more than dream catchers, totem poles, and basketry. The art world is waking up to a new appreciation for contemporary Native art 鈥� and the artists behind it.聽
Neil Armstrong gets the spotlight in the biopic 鈥楩irst Man鈥�As Ryan Gosling plays him, Armstrong is not so much strong and silent as glazed-over.
Repetitive 'Beautiful Boy' still has beautiful momentsThe film, which stars Steve Carell and聽Timoth茅e Chalamet, is overlong and riddled with unneeded flashbacks showing the family in better times.
Top Picks: 'Ocean's 8,' 'Quincy'The app聽Nextdoor聽is a great (and private) way to be in touch with people who live close by, researchers from the long-running British quiz show 'QI' are sharing other interesting facts on the podcast 'No Such Thing as a Fish,' and more top picks.
What are you watching? Readers recommend 'Michael Palin in North Korea,' 'Stalag 17'Monitor TV and movie fans share what they've been watching lately.
In a WordThe (impossible?) dream of a universal languageOver the centuries, a surprising number of theologians and linguists have tried to 'reverse Babel' and create universally intelligible languages.
What are you watching? Readers recommend 'Solaris,' 'Chesapeake Shores'Monitor TV and movie fans share what they've been watching lately.
Top Picks: 'Both Sides Now,' 'To All the Boys I鈥檝e Loved Before'College students can get rewards for leaving their phones alone during class when they use the聽Pocket Points app, the documentary 'Won鈥檛 You Be My Neighbor?'聽looks at the career of Fred Rogers and his creation of the show 'Mister Rogers鈥� Neighborhood,' and more top picks.
