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Movie review: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ a breathless, busy sci-fi adventure

The “Super Mario Bros.” world has always been a family affair — it’s right there in the title, after all. The wildly successful 40-year-old Japanese video game franchise features a pair of Italian American plumber brothers from Brooklyn who spend their time powering up and jumping around the Mushroom Kingdom. But their motley crew of friends and enemies haven’t had their own sibling dynamic until now, in “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” the sequel to the 2023 smash animated hit, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.”
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Movie review: Shocking revelation causes a freak-out in ‘The Drama’

In 2024, Tinashe sang “is somebody gonna match my freak?” in her hit song “Nasty,” and the lyric became an almost philosophical way of seeing the world. Is matching freaks our ultimate goal as human beings, and what would it look like to share our freakiest self with someone else? What is allowed under the freaky umbrella? These are the sort of questions that animate Norwegian auteur ...
A&E >  Dining

Taco Bell wants to help with your under-eye circles and wrinkles — no, really

You may have heard: Taco Bell is getting into the beauty business. Because nothing says clear skin like Cheesy Gordita Crunch and Beefy 5-Layer Burrito. The fast-food chain announced last week that it would be introducing "Mountain Dew Baja Blast Under Eye Patches" later this year. (Yes, really.) The news came at Taco Bell's Live Más Live gala March 10, during which the company introduced more ...
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Ask the doctors: Readers respond

Hello, dear readers! Welcome to a bonus letters column. Right before writing this column, we made the annual shift into daylight saving time. We’ve given up an hour of morning light for a longer, sunlit evening. DST sparks debate on a range of issues, including the potential effects on sleep and health. We’ll be exploring some of those soon. But now, on to your letters.
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Miss Manners: Miss Manners comes to middle school

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I teach seventh grade in a suburban school. I have noticed an increasingly unsettling trend as I walk around the room to check on students: Nobody says “yes, please” or “no, thank you” anymore.
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How Taylor Sheridan became the TV king of North Texas

If you live in North Texas, you may have recently stumbled across a peculiar road closure. Perhaps you saw a clue in the form of a sign that read “SET.” The commotion most likely traced back to Taylor Sheridan, the Fort Worth-raised show creator who has churned out TV hits at a dizzying pace.
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Symphony Review: At ‘Masterworks 7: Primavera,’ Lowe commands symphony through season of renewal

James Lowe, music director and conductor of the Spokane Symphony, left no doubt as to the effect he wished the orchestra’s seventh “Masterworks” concert to have on its audience: It was to feel the joy, the energy, the sense of renewal that comes with the arrival of spring. Thus, he used the Italian word for spring, “Primavera,” to name the program, and then built it up by selecting three works full of warmth, color and energy.
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