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A piano menacingly circles us. A voice, in a half-whisper, sings between the ridges of an instrumental rhythm that will create “Sticks and Stones” before our very ears, and even though Andy Michaels is coupled with a powerful player in Carolyn Thomas for this track from his new album Incendiary Heart, there’s never any doubt as
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It’s been a week since global K-pop sensation BTS announced its seventh studio album, Map of the Soul: 7, and now, ahead of its release, the group has dropped the first single, Black Swan. As previously promised on the band’s detailed “comeback map,” Black Swan was released on Friday along with a contemporary music video directed by
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Are you about to lose your job to a robot? Adam Davidson, creator of NPR’s Planet Money, joins Nick Bilton to talk about his new book, The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century, where he argues that capitalism isn’t dead, a (coming) recession won’t destroy America, and the world isn’t
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With its investigation into Hillary Clinton winding down—and reportedly coming up empty-handed—the Department of Justice is reportedly shifting its focus to another of President Donald Trump‘s political foes. The New York Times reports that federal prosecutors have opened an investigation into former FBI director James Comey and whether he leaked classified information to reporters. The
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Compared to 2019, which saw the final season of Game of Thrones and the incredible success of Watchmen, 2020’s looking comparatively thin for HBO—although there’s still a lot of intriguing new and returning premieres on the horizon. Regardless, there are lots of questions about whether Watchmen will return for a second season—and plenty of people
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Survivor: Winners At War, the 40th season of the veteran competition series, premieres Feb. 12, and it’s doing something unprecedented — pitting winners against winners. For the 20th anniversary of Survivor, the series will unite the most memorable and celebrated champions from the past two decades. 3:02 ‘Survivor: Island Of The Idols’ addresses controversy during finale ‘Survivor:
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