As a librarian for the Grand Island Public Library, Laura Fentress has several confessions to make. Among them: “Sometimes I check out a pile of books and return them three ...

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A new installment of the Amos Parisman mysteries is out. In this book, L.A.’s “oldest and most unconventional Jewish gumshoe” Parisman has to track down the fate of a historic Torah scroll that’s been ...

This spring the Academy Museum will take movie fans inside the mind of “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho and the world ...

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