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In the new movie Opus, Ayo Edebiri plays a journalist who attends a press event at the compound of a reclusive pop star (John ...

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Edward Curtis, who studies Islam in America, says that for some African American Muslims, Ramadan food “might include halal ...

There’s a grainy video on YouTube of a cherubic, then 16-year-old David Archuleta singing Elton John and George Michael’s ...

His roots to San Francisco theatre began when he moved here in 1991 and NCTC is now presenting Wild with Happy Domingo’s 2012 ...

A few years ago, I got into an argument with a friend about religion. The question we tussled over: Would America be better off without Christianity? She had grown up in an evangelical Christian ...

There is no empirical evidence of correlation (or causation) between religion and learning. Any connections of this order that we see in this country are spurious. In other words, a Catholic ...

I think Sam Altman is too young to have been influenced by Rolling Stone magazine, but I feel like he’s learned something about retconning previously expressed hype in order to make room for fresh ...

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The huband-wife team will split their time between Miami and Spain.

Zora Neale Hurston once fibbed about her age to receive her high school diploma. She later earned an Associate’s Degree from ...