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NMU music faculty engage in virtual outreach efforts

MARQUETTE —Northern Michigan University music department faculty members are using YouTube to expand their educational and entertainment outreach. Erin Colwitz began a “Women in Music” video lecture series and Mark Flaherty launched an NMU Jazz “Tune of the Week” performance series. ...

A teeming, violent pre-pandemic world in ‘Extraction’

NEW YORK — The big-budget action thriller “Extraction” belongs, in many ways, to another world. It’s set in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka, one of the most densely populated cities in the world. It’s in this urban sea of people and traffic that Chris Hemsworth’s battle-scarred ...

‘Book of Longings’ has an ambitious, lasting power

“I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus ben Joseph of Nazareth. I called him Beloved and he, laughing, called me Little Thunder.” With these opening words, Sue Monk Kidd launches into her ambitious new novel, “The Book of Longings.” Ana is a force to be reckoned with. A woman who ...

New show ‘Defending Jacob’ is a homecoming for Chris Evans

NEW YORK — Chris Evans’ latest TV project had a nice lure built in — he was able to stay close to his Boston-area home. “I got to sleep in my own bed and see my family on the weekends. And it felt really, for a little while, like I had a regular 9-to-5 job,” the actor said. ...

Center of ‘Beastie Boys Story’ is music. So is friendship.

NEW YORK — Getting the Beastie Boys’ Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and longtime collaborator and friend, Spike Jonze, together during normal times would be full of jokes, playful banter and overall fun. But on a Zoom video call during the quarantining era? ...