Opera lovers flock to performances in order to be thrilled, aroused, overjoyed, moved to tears. Ditto disciples of dance, musical-theater fanatics, and — the worst, most masochistic, and unrepentant art-rush addicts of them all — moviegoers. Georges Bizet’s Carmen shocked audiences when it premiered in 1875 in Paris; eventually, his …
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“Music is the thing that saved me,” says Mexican superstar Paulina Rubio. Music is what she has known her whole life, or at least, ever since she made her early Eighties debut in the popular teen group, Timbiriche. But in 1992, Rubio broke away from the pack to launch her …
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Before President Trump flew to McAllen, Texas, to cast the border as a hellscape of criminals frothing to illegally enter the United States, his Mexican counterpart visited the region. Last Saturday in Ciudad Juarez, Andrés Manuel López Obrador laid out his vision to create jobs, cut corporate taxes and raise …
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