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“The Dance Institute of Washington is reeling from the unexpected death Friday of [Barnes], the hard-driving and big-hearted former Dance Theatre of Harlem soloist who devoted his life to training underprivileged children in classical ballet.”

For Herrera, the award-winning author of more than two dozen poetry collections and books for young people, the second term will provide an opportunity to build on the success of several ongoing projects, including his “La Casa de Colores,” an epic poem composed of online submissions from people around the world.

“What are we to make today of this famous woman who has fascinated generations with her wit, flair, talent, and near genius for self-destruction?”

“If not quite on the same level of stardom as Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne or Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, Ms. Jackson and [Eli] Wallach came close. [For five decades] they captivated audiences with their onstage synergy, displaying the tense affections and sizzling battles of two old pros who knew both how to love and how to fight.”

“Over the past 15 years, the Montreal native rose to the pinnacles of the international art publishing world, building an empire that included five secretive offshore companies based in the British Virgin Islands, according to documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and Süddeustche Zeitung and shared with Torstar News Service.”

“To me it’s a job. Whatever my personal situation is, if I can extricate myself from it and say, ‘OK, I’m Bob or Tom or whatever’ then that’s great and you can get lots of attention. But then you come home at the end of the day and find that you’re still a trainwreck as a human being.”

“After first gaining prominence in the 1950s, critics grouped him with other working class writers sometimes referred to as the ‘angry young men’ generation, although Wesker rejected the label. He was later characterised as a leading voice of 1960s ‘kitchen sink’ British drama.”

“From his humble beginnings to the devoted following he found in Chicago to national syndication, he was a man – a black man – whose four-decade career shaped radio as we know it. And … in a medium often dominated by loud, white, obnoxious shock jocks with particular politics, he was something else: nice.”

“In a railway station in St. Petersburg last year, backed by a full orchestra, [Ragnar] Kjartansson sang the words ‘Sorrow will conquer happiness,’ in Russian, for six hours. … [His] brand of performance art, in which Nordic gloom goes hand in hand with non-ironic humor, has made him one of the busiest artists on the planet.”

“Mostafa Azizi, 54, was released from an Iranian prison on Saturday after serving about one year of an eight-year sentence for charges of insulting the country’s leader and spreading propaganda against the state.”