Arts

Poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, Dan "Sully" Sullivan, and the spoken word club's founder Peter Kahn curated the poems in the anthology.

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Arts

A high school spoken-word club changed students' lives. Now, you can read their poems

5:11am February 18, 2022

by Jeevika Verma

Poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, Dan "Sully" Sullivan, and club founder Peter Kahn have curated a new anthology celebrating the legacy of a Chicago-area high school's spoken word club.

Netflix's 'jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy' is (mostly) genius

7:02pm February 17, 2022

by Eric Deggans

The three-part docuseries tracks the rappers rise, starting as an up-and-coming producer in Chicago.

Raven Software helps develop the popular Call of Duty franchise for Activision Blizzard. Recently, workers there staged a weeks-long walkout to protest layoffs.

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Will Activision Blizzard workers unionize? Microsoft's deal complicates things

5:19pm February 17, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

The video game industry has long been resistant to organizing. But quality assurance testers at video game giant Activision Blizzard hope to change that.

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Mark (Adam Scott) greets new employee Helly (Britt Lower) in the Apple TV series Severance.

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In the thriller 'Severance,' Adam Scott's humanity hangs in the (work-life) balance

2:44pm February 17, 2022

by Glen Weldon

This darkly comic series about corporate drones who retain no memory of their lives outside the office gets quickly weirder, funnier and more thrilling after a slow-burn start.

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Arts

A creation myth in Sheila Heti's 'Pure Colour' has art critics as evolutionary stars

6:00am February 17, 2022

by Lily Meyer

The novel is simultaneously wise and silly, moving and inscrutable. It is also indisputably working hard to be new.

Yes, the second half of adult life can be happier than the first.

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Arts

How to crack the code to happiness in the second half of life

6:35pm February 16, 2022

Aging can be hardest for strivers, says social scientist Arthur Brooks, because they sometimes mourn that their biggest successes are in their rearview mirror.

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Aloy surveys a vista from 'Horizon Forbidden West.'

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Review: 'Horizon Forbidden West' brings a personal saga to a primal post-apocalypse

5:00pm February 16, 2022

by Swapna Krishna

A personal journey underpins a new video game about a post-apocalyptic American West reclaimed by nature and stalked by bestial robots.

Often overlooked, civil rights advocate Constance Baker Motley gets her due

1:30pm February 16, 2022

by Tonya Mosley

In Civil Rights Queen, author Tomiko Brown-Nagin profiles Motley, a Black woman who wrote the original complaint in Brown v. The Board of Education and was on Martin Luther King's legal team.

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Arts

'Severance' puts a witty, unsettling spin on the office drama

1:30pm February 16, 2022

by John Powers

This offbeat and amusing thriller from Apple TV+ conjures a world in which employees of a cult-like corporation voluntarily undergo a procedure that severs their work and non-work memories.

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Economy

Looking good in the metaverse. Fashion brands bet on digital clothing

12:22pm February 16, 2022

by Miranda Mazariegos

Fashion brands are betting people will spend on virtual outfits in the immersive digital world known as the metaverse.