Cabaret is an intimate genre many have heard of but few can define. From vintage-infused nudie burlesque to truly bonkers alternative drag acts, we describe what it’s all about.
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400 times more radioactive material was released from Chernobyl than by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and a Ukrainian professor from Harvard tells us why.
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Sam Pollen was fourteen years old, a total nerd whose family was fracturing, and turned to Anorexia, refusing to eat, as his one desperate effort to control his life.
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Andy Parker’s daughter Alison was a popular young TV reporter who was shot to death by a mentally ill co-worker on the morning news. After confronting his despair he decided there was only one way to fight back.
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All but two Cape newspapers are owned by a private equity company. What are we losing? What’s the impact? A longtime editor discusses what we can do about it.
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Baseball is a game that is considered way too slow…at the same time that the average pitch is clocked in at 90 miles per hour, with pitchers doing their best to make every one look exactly the same. But when you know the difference between curveballs and knucklers, sliders and sinkers the fun really starts.
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We seem unable even to talk about racial strife in America today. In her new book, Raising White Kids, Jennifer Harvey suggests better ways to teach children about race because the way we’re currently going about it is making it worse.
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One of the very few opinions that most Democrats and Republicans, Libertarians and Independents share is that American democracy has become increasingly broken and beholden to big money.
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New Orleans is a crossroads of humanity that has survived by continuously reinventing itself and refusing to be defeated in the face of hurricanes, racism, yellow fever, political corruption, and crime.
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