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Tom Smothers, Half of Music-Comedy Duo Smothers Brothers, Dies at 86

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Tom Smothers died on Tuesday (December 26) at his home, the National Comedy Center announced. The comedian and musician had been living with cancer. Smothers was 86 years old. Thomas Bolyn “Tom” Smothers III was born in New York in 1937. With his family, including younger brother Dick, Smothers moved to California where he graduated … Read more

Germany’s fierce policy on antisemitism smothers the arts, critics say

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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BERLIN — The subject of Candice Breitz’s art installation in Germany’s southwestern state of Saarland was thousands of miles removed from the conflict raging in Gaza: sex workers in South Africa. And yet her exhibit was one of a slew of cultural events in Germany that have … Read more