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“Hell’s Kitchen”: Alicia Keys’ life and music inspire a new musical

It’s been a labor of love by the Grammy Award-winning musician, singer and songwriter Alicia Keys: she’s created a new stage musical loosely based on her own life story. “Hell’s Kitchen,” about a teenage girl with a love of music and a difficult relationship with her mother, features new music as well as some of Keys’ most beloved songs Keys rearranged or recontextualized. Correspondent Kelefa Sanneh talks with Keys about the show’s origin and its sold-out run in the East Village, with an eye on a future Broadway production. Sanneh also talks with theater critic Ben Brantley about the history of “jukebox musicals,” and why “Hell’s Kitchen” may be different. Source

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Artist Ed Ruscha’s career-spanning retrospective

The largest exhibition ever of works by Ed Ruscha, one of the most celebrated American artists of the postwar era, is now on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Ruscha, now 85, talks with correspondent David Pogue about collecting much of his life’s work into one retrospective; the cryptic nature of many of his paintings; and his use of unusual materials (like chocolate and axle grease). Source

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The Woolly Worm Festival, inching to predict winter’s weather

Punxsutawney, Pa., has its groundhog, but every autumn Banner Elk, North Carolina hosts the Woolly Worm Festival, in which caterpillars crawl in feats of athletic prowess, the outcome of which is said to predict the area’s winter weather. Correspondent Conor Knighton checks out the competition. Source

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