Patti Smith confronts new school celebrity


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If the Grammys telecast Sunday and the recent Golden Globe Awards taught us anything, it’s that products that are mass produced to possess inherent widespread appeal have become synonymous with award-winning talent. Of course, it’s been this way for some time, and to harp on the grotesque nature of voyeurism and shameless self-promotion in relation […]

U.K.’s hands-off education policy puts students in control


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From behind, wild cackling erupts from the depths of someone’s throat. To the left, gangly arms flail about hoping to catch fleeting attention. Screams, loud noises and laughter give the room an air of madness. No, you’re not in a zoo. You’re in a classroom in City University London the sixth most popular university in […]

The More, The Merrier


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The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ exhibit recalls the eight years when 10 best picture nominees was the standard.

Mad Mel returns with a vengence


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A Hollywood comeback is never easy, especially when most of Hollywood perceives you to be an anti-Semite with a drinking problem who recently left his wife of more than 25 years for a much younger woman who has just given birth. Mel Gibson, a man once very near the top of the Hollywood hierarchy, is […]