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Jesus died for somebody’s sins … but not hers

Almost at the beginning of Steven Sebring’s documentary “Patti Smith: Dream of Life,” a film and art installation and photography book that have been 12 years in the making, we hear a narration from the eponymous rock goddess-poet, declaiming a…
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Patti Smith opens the final door of her life story

With “Bread of Angels,” Patti Smith has finally given readers the long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s “Just Kids.” Unlike “M Train” (2015) and “Year of the Monkey” (2019), both of which mixed memoir with surrealism, “Bread of Angels” is presented as…
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Gerrymandering fails in Utah: Even red states have rules

A Utah state judge struck down the GOP-drawn congressional map Friday, ruling that lawmakers had unconstitutionally diluted the power of Salt Lake City’s voters by splitting the region into four heavily Republican districts. The decision marks a rare victory for…
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Even establishment Democrats say Chuck Schumer must go

For the past 40 days, congressional Democrats mustered a remarkable display of unity and perseverance. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had finally decided to follow Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s dictum to know and use…
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