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Two couples, each composed of a white man and a white woman, stand a few feet apart from each other onstage. The women are in red ball gowns trimmed in white, and the men wear red suits. A large wreath and cutouts of snow flakes hang behind them. Their arms are outstretched above their heads
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Stuck in a snow globe

by Catey Sullivan December 21, 2022December 21, 2022

Nearly 69 years since its birth as a smash movie, the seasonally ubiquitous White Christmas remains a good, old-fashioned holiday chestnut. It also remains an objectively odious, old holiday chestnut. To say it has not aged well is to put it mildly. To put it frankly, I would like to think this is not a […]

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America—a constitutional theocracy

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De Tocqueville’s idea of religion’s place in America is analogous to my idea of the place of the monarchy in Britain

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At Ravinia Festival, the music’s great; the underpass, not so much

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On the ugly, obtrusive underpass at Ravinia Festival

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Coming soon to a monitor near you

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Nina Paley’s head-turning animation “Sita Sings the Blues” emerges from copyright battle bent but not broken.

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