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Cinemania: best movies about summer
Summer means wacky vacations, running through water sprinklers, and beach blanket bingo bonanzas. But summer also means oppressive heat, sunburns, noxious insects, sweaty men in tee-shirts, testy tempers, the sweltering battlefield of Gettysburg, the German invasion of Belgium in 1914,......

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Winter TV Preview
Winter TV forecast
Let Globe TV critic Matthew Gilbert be your guide with his forecast of what's to come in the next few months.

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Season 4 of 'American Horror Story' to be carnival-themed
The fourth season of FX's creepy horror series is reportedly going to be set in a 1950's fairground carnival....

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The Globe's Matthew Gilbert tells you what's up with tonight's shows. Tune in here before you turn on the tube.
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Cinemania: heaven
If I were to choose my favorite song about the sweet hereafter, it would probably be “Heaven” by the Talking Heads. But if I were......

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BSO players sign new labor agreement
There won't be any labor strife at The Boston Symphony...


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'Poppins' enjoying a tuneup
Composer Richard M. Sherman looks back at "his" version of "Mary Poppins" and at the musical it became in 2004.


On the Cape, a view of Gorey
"Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey" tries to figure out what the master illustrator of morbid humor liked.


'Chapters' blends dances
Intensity and humanity propel the choreography in "Chapters From a Broken Novel" as Doug Varone makes subliminal connections in dance.


A tale of murder, 'Cardillac'
set for Boston premiere
The opera's combination of its curious story and its unorthodox telling creating an uneasy immediacy.


Williams steers away
from heartbreak songs
"Blessed," Lucinda Williams' forthcoming album, shows the songwriter stretching, beautifully, beyond her usual tropes.