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Brooke Shields wants to bring better representation to women in their 50s.

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Brooke Shields is getting older in the public eye — and she wants to talk about it

1:26pm May 06, 2022

Shields grew up in the public eye, and now she is aging in the public eye and wants to discuss it. At the top of her list is the idea that women in their 50s aren't represented in lots of places.

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Broadway star Beth Leavel delivered UNCG commencement address

1:09pm May 06, 2022

by David Ford

Broadway star and University of North Carolina Greensboro alumna Beth Leavel gave the commencement speech at her alma

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Anamaria Vartolomei stars as a literature student who discovers she's pregnant after a brief fling in Happening.

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Timely and urgent, 'Happening' is a film that speaks to today's abortion debate

10:07am May 06, 2022

by Justin Chang

A 23-year-old literature student discovers she's pregnant after a fling. This movie, based on Annie Ernaux's autobiographical novel, traces her desperate attempt to get an abortion in 1963 France.

Skylar Tang, a 16-year-old from the San Francisco Bay area, is the winner of the Dr. J. Douglas White Composing & Arranging Contest.

Who says big band jazz is for old people? Not this teenage composer.

8:07am May 06, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

California musician Skylar Tang, 16, is the winner of a Jazz at Lincoln Center contest. She'll accept the award in New York this weekend.

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Xochitl Gomez as America Chavez, Benedict Wong as Wong, and Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange.

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Marvel's 'Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness' is all over the place

5:00am May 06, 2022

by Glen Weldon

The latest MCU film is at its best when director Sam Raimi leans into its horror elements, and at its weakest when it coasts on cameos and callbacks from a now-diffuse network of Marvel properties.

Amber Heard told a jury at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Va., that her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, slapped her and insulted her in front of others aboard a private flight in 2014.

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Amber Heard accuses Johnny Depp of sexual assault

10:55pm May 05, 2022

by Ayana Archie

Heard described a chaotic and violent night in 2015, during which she alleges Depp sexually assaulted her.

Kidd Creole, the rapper whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is arraigned in New York on Aug. 3, 2017, after he was arrested on a murder charge.

The rapper Kidd Creole is sentenced to 16 years over a fatal stabbing

12:14pm May 05, 2022

by The Associated Press

Rapper Kidd Creole, who was a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death on a New York City street.

Clockwise from top left: Amber Ruffin, Cristela Alonzo, Trevor Noah, Ali Wong, Roy Wood Jr. and Hasan Minhaj could be successors to James Corden on The Late Late Show.

Arts

It's time for a non-white host of 'The Late Late Show'. Here's our critic's shortlist

10:20am May 05, 2022

by Eric Deggans

Ali Wong, Roy Wood Jr., Amber Ruffin and Hasan Minhaj are all on this critic's shortlist of candidates for the job.

Milwaukee-based book influencer Cree Myles curates Penguin Random House's All Ways Black Instagram account.

How one book influencer championing Black authors is changing publishing

10:12am May 05, 2022

by Maayan Silver

Milwaukee-based book influencer Cree Myles curates an account for Penguin Random House dedicated to celebrating Black writers.

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Artist Jill Magid had 120,000 pennies inscribes with, "The body was already so fragile."

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She inscribed 120,000 NYC pennies with a pandemic message. Is one in your pocket?

10:11am May 05, 2022

by Jennifer Vanasco

Artist Jill Magid inscribed pennies with "The body was already so fragile" — and now brings a film of the process to Brooklyn, giving people a chance to reflect on the pandemic.

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