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Unlike other floral artists, Serena Madrigal likes to leave the thorns on her roses; she finds the duality in the flower’s softness and sharp edges meaningful. “Roses are beautiful, but the thorns are ...

Feedback doesn’t want to overstate this, but we think we have found a problem that will rewrite a huge swathe of music and literature and force us to reconsider one of our most cherished metaphors. It ...

Uplifted beyond its merits by a stunning performance from Marion Cotillard, the humdrum biopic of Edith Piaf, La Vie en Rose, jogs obligingly along with Piaf the legend rather than the woman. It’s not ...

Some mothers will do anything to live their starlet fantasies vicariously through their children. So what if you have to spring ten grand on wigs and false teeth or drug your little miss sunshine with ...