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‘It’s Florida, Man’ Reveals the Lives Behind Bizarre News Stories

“It’s Florida, Man,” premiering Friday at 11 p.m., on HBO, takes a “Drunk History” approach to the intimacy and portraiture of “How To With John Wilson.” It uses familiar comedic actors in cheeky re-enactments of real events, but those events are all personal sagas; they are obscure and strange, sometimes …

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Five International Movies to Stream Now

‘In Her Place’ Stream it on Netflix. Chile’s submission for this year’s Academy Award for best international feature film is a historical psychodrama centered on a true story: In 1955, the writer María Carolina Geel shot and killed her lover in the crowded dining room of an upscale hotel in …

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Draw Sports Fans to an Art Museum? That’s the Goal.

As museums experiment with ways of attracting new visitors beyond a niche audience of art lovers, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has assembled an ambitious exhibition anchored in a subject with wide appeal: sports. Occupying over 13,000 square feet and the museum’s entire seventh floor, “Get in the …

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