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Madrid calls on Carles Puigdemont to participate in Catalan elections

Pau Barrena | AFP | Getty Images Catalan regional government president Carles Puigdemont attends a regional government meeting at the Generalitat Palace in Barcelona on October 10, 2017. The Spanish government said Saturday it would welcome the participation of sacked Catalan president Carles Puigdemont in regional elections to be held …

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What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Charlie Brown’ and a Fats Domino Documentary

Photo Fats Domino, seated, and his longtime collaborator Dave Bartholomew. Credit Charles L. Franck/Franck Bertacci Photograph Collection, Historic New Orleans Collection Linus continues to search for the Great Pumpkin. Two prestige TV dramas present their season finales. What’s on TV AMERICAN MASTERS: FATS DOMINO AND THE BIRTH OF ROCK ’N’ …

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Donald Trump and Michael Moore Quarrel Over Broadway Show

Photo Michael Moore in his solo show, “The Terms of My Surrender,” which recently closed on Broadway. Mr. Moore posted a lengthy response on Twitter after President Trump said Saturday that the show was a failure. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Well, Michael Moore succeeded in getting the president’s …

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Review: ‘Stranger Things’ Returns, More Familiar but Still Fun

The new season, arriving Friday, picks up just before Halloween 1984, and it spends its first half creating new versions of the first season’s conflicts. Will is back in our world, but tormented by visions of the Upside Down, which, as the first-season epilogue suggested, still has a hold on …

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Spooked by Real Life? Bring On the Halloween Frights

“This hotel was built on top of our broken bones!” an animatronic pirate skeleton complained amid thunder and lightning. Photo Remember to smile between your screams: Your visit to the Gravesend Inn is recorded on video, which you can view after your harrowing stay. Credit Jessica Lehrman for The New …

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Film Series in NYC This Week

Photo From left, Jack Warden, Edward Binns, E.G. Marshall, John Fiedler, Henry Fonda, Ed Begley, Robert Webber, Jack Klugman, George Voskovec, Martin Balsam and Joseph Sweeney in Sidney Lumet’s “12 Angry Men” (1957). Credit Film Forum Our guide to film series and special screenings. All our movie reviews are at …

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New Ryan Murphy Show for FX Casts Several Transgender Regulars

Photo Hailie Sahar, right, with Sandra Caldwell in the Off Broadway play “Charm” in August. Ms. Sahar is among the transgender actresses cast in “Pose,” a pilot for FX. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times The pilot for a new FX show, “Pose,” will feature what the network called the …

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Dance in NYC This Week

Photo “Halloween Unleashed: Dancing Bones, Tasting Darkness and the Skeleton Within,” choreographed by Karole Armitage for Armitage Gone! Dance. See listing below. Credit Julieta Cervantes Our guide to dance performances. ARMITAGE DANCE! GONE at La MaMa (Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., Oct. 28 at 2 p.m. and …

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Refusing Weinstein’s Hush Money, Rose McGowan Calls Out Hollywood

She said she told her lawyer to pull the offer within a day of The New York Times publishing an article that detailed decades of Mr. Weinstein’s alleged sexual harassment, aggression and misconduct toward women, as well as at least seven other settlements he had reached with accusers. After that, …

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Summoned for jury duty in Chicago, Barack Obama will serve

Yana Paskova | Getty Images Former U.S. President Barack Obama answers questions at the Gates Foundation Inaugural Goalkeepers event on September 20, 2017 in New York City. Apparently, not even an ex-leader of the free world can escape jury duty — a job average citizens frequently try to avoid. Former …

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