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Saudi Arabia cuts off talks with Qatar after hopes for breakthrough

Getty Images Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (2nd L) on April 19, 2017 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia on Saturday suspended any dialogue with Qatar, accusing it of “distorting facts,” just after a report of a phone call between the leaders of both countries suggested a …

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Holger Czukay, 79, Influential Rock Experimenter, Is Dead

“Films are made like that: You shoot the scenes, and shoot it several times, and later you put it together by these different takes,” Mr. Czukay told EST magazine in 1994. “This is the way I make my music. And suddenly, I found out as well that the music creates …

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The New Season of Art: Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond

NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR The entire museum is filled with so many small publishers of art books, zines and other visually appealing codices that in past years I’ve gotten faint in less than an hour. Sept. 22–24 at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, nyartbookfair.com, momaps1.org. RADICAL WOMEN: LATIN AMERICAN …

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This is how you store supercars during a hurricane

Joe Skipper | Reuters Gil Dezer, a Trump development partner, is interviewed by Reuters at his Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, U.S. March 13, 2017. Floridians are no strangers to hurricanes and the wealthy of Miami know just how to protect their prized automobiles from the impending …

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Don Williams, Singer of Plain-Spoken Country Songs, Dies at 78

Nicknamed the Gentle Giant (even though his height of 6 feet 1 inch may not have quite warranted it), Mr. Williams was adept at writing and recording plain-spoken material extolling the virtues of romantic commitment. Photo Don Williams performing at Wembley Stadium in London in 1982. Credit Hulton Archive/Getty Images …

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Troy Gentry of country duo Montgomery Gentry dies in helicopter crash

Mindy Small | FilmMagic | Getty Images Recording artist Troy Gentry of music duo Montgomery Gentry performs at Stoney’s Rockin Country on November 4, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Troy Gentry, one half of the award-winning country music duo Montgomery Gentry, died Friday in a helicopter crash just hours before …

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Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 66 Albums, Shows and Festivals

EMILY HAINES Fresh off the release of a new LP by her longtime band, Broken Social Scene, this summer, Ms. Haines — who also fronts the synth-rock act Metric — is taking a moment to focus on her own work. “Choir of the Mind,” her first solo album since 2006, …

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Equifax security exec John Kelley earned $2.8 million in 2016

Brendan McDermid | Reuters Trading information and the company logo are displayed on a screen where the stock is traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., September 8, 2017. The executive responsible for security at Equifax, which on Thursday disclosed a security …

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Jerry Garcia Goes Off Broadway in ‘Red Roses, Green Gold’

Photo Jerry Garcia, performing in November, 1992, in Oakland, Calif. A Grateful Dead musical, “Red Roses, Green Gold,” is to open at Minetta Lane Theater in October. Credit Kristy McDonald/Associated Press Deadheads, be grateful. Back in June, Broadway World reported that a Grateful Dead musical was in the works. Now …

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Hurricanes clobber restaurant sales

Michele Eve Sandberg | AFP | Getty Images Tourists walk past a restaurant, closed in preparation for Hurricane Irma, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on September 7, 2017. Heavy rainfall and flooding battered restaurant sales in August, and that trend looks like it will continue well into September. Hurricane Harvey ripped …

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