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#MeToo pervades Toronto film festTopical documentaries and a fourth version of 鈥楢 Star is Born鈥� stand out.
鈥楾he Apparition鈥� focuses on issues of faith, truthIn聽writer-director Xavier Giannoli's film, a young聽woman in France claims to have been visited by the Virgin Mary.
Top Picks: The movie 'The Guardians,' the podcast 'My Indian Life,' and more top picksThe hills will be alive when 'The Sound of Music' returns to movie theaters on Sept. 12 through Fathom Events, the app聽Splitwise聽is great to have on a trip with friends or for shared expenses like rent or utilities, and more top picks.
What are you watching? Readers recommend 'Treme,' 'The Expanse'Monitor TV and movie fans share what they've been watching lately.
In a WordHow many ways to say 鈥楾his stinks鈥�?When tested, most people can name only about 50 percent of even familiar aromas such as coffee, cinnamon, and garlic. But we do know when something stinks. For bad smells, we have a fairly rich, if nonspecific, vocabulary.
Tossing what the clutter elves snuck inI felt like Daniel Boone taming a vast wilderness 鈥� my overstuffed basement.
Are singers or songs most important for a tour?When iconic frontmen (or frontwomen) are replaced, are they still the same bands? More important, will fans remain loyal and keep buying tickets?
鈥楾he Bookshop鈥� evokes nostalgia for all things literaryFlorence Green (Emily Mortimer) loves books and decides to convert the run-down home she owns and occupies into a bookshop, the only one within many miles.
Four August movies we think you should seeSome of Monitor critic Peter Rainer's favorite selections to be released in August were 'What Will People Say' and 'The Bookshop.'
Top Picks: 'Brave Little State' podcast, the Evernote app, and moreThe movie 'Tully' is available on DVD and Blu-ray and stars Charlize Theron as harried mother Marlo, the聽Smithsonian National Postal Museum聽is exploring聽Alexander Hamilton's life with an online exhibit, and more top picks.
What are you watching? Readers recommend 'Ethel & Ernest,' 'The Wonder Years'Monitor TV and movie fans share what they've been watching lately.
In a WordRemembrance of all things smellyIt is surprisingly hard for English-speakers to describe the odors that occasion strong emotions. English possesses almost no abstract smell words that pick out links or themes among unrelated aromas.聽
Sounds of summer: Boston street musiciansA photo gallery of 'buskers' who fill popular spots around the city with rhythm and harmony.
Finding the everyday in the exoticTo travel is to encounter the unfamiliar and strange. But not always.聽
Here's what's being done to get women equitable radio play in country musicTodd Cassetty, a media executive and founder of Song Suffragettes, thinks the secret to solving this problem is with the fans: If they demand to hear more female artists, radio stations will respond. 'The crux of the issue is that women do not have the same opportunities to be heard that men do in country music,' Cassetty says.聽
Rom-com 'Juliet Naked' is indeed romantic and comedicThe聽adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel is sweet and unprepossessing.
'We the Animals' continually wafts away into artinessThe movie, which focuses on a trio of brothers, is all nuance with no clear sense of place.
First Look'Plant-based' replaces 'v-words' to appeal to carnivoresAs companies try to get Americans to eat fewer animal products, 鈥減lant-based鈥� is replacing 鈥渧egan鈥� and 鈥渧egetarian鈥� because of the unappetizing and polarizing associations the v-words might have.
First Look'Let's go surfing now:' surfing is now California's official sportSurfing has long been entwined with California culture and now Gov. Jerry Brown has inked the relationship into law. Although Hawaii is the sport's birthplace, Californians helped to modernize and popularize the art of riding waves.聽
Top Picks: Tony Molina's 'Kill the Lights,' PBS's 'Ancient Invisible Cities,' and moreA new National Geographic video explores the biggest wholesale market in the world,聽Marvel鈥檚 various heroes join together to fight a powerful foe in 'Avengers: Infinity War,' and more top picks.
