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TV Review: ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ review: Netflix adaptation lacks nuance

Watching a screen adaptation of a book you loved can be a fraught experience. Sometimes it’s enlightening, in which you see in the film elements of the book that you didn’t catch upon first reading, letting you experience its joys anew. Sometimes it’s interesting, in which you may not agree with the interpretation but nonetheless engage with it, intrigued by seeing the book through different eyes. And sometimes it’s just annoying, with everything magical about the book squashed like croissant crumbs under a heavy boot. Alas, the new Netflix adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “All the Light We Cannot See” fits into that third category. It is, and I am summoning up the kindest word I can find here, a slog.

A&E >  Entertainment

7 new food-centric shows you should be watching right now

Next spring – that’s how long fans will likely have to wait to see the estimable Kristen Kish take over hosting duty from Padma on the next season of “Top Chef.” (Filmed in … Wisconsin?) But in the meantime, the TV landscape is hardly a desert. There are new shows about Iron Chef-quality sushi, José Andrés and his family touring Spain, a five-star luxury hotel’s fancy kitchen and so much more. ...
A&E >  Food

The tragic tale of a shrimp fried rice dinner disaster

The heartbreaking tragedy of my Wednesday-night dinner began with a simple message from my wife: She was on her way to an appointment and was defrosting a package of shrimp. Great, I thought. I'll make shrimp fried rice. Everybody loves fried rice. And although I think I had only made it once or twice before in my life, it will undoubtedly be fast and easy to make. I even found a ...
A&E >  Art

First Friday

First Friday is 5-8 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
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Ask the doctors: Ageism is prevalent in medical care

Dear Doctors: Your column regarding an older man’s doctor who denied him a PSA test struck a nerve. He was just told no without an explanation. As I get older, I find that my doctors don’t listen to me. Can you please talk about ageism in medical care? Are there strategies for patients to overcome it?
A&E >  Cooking

Buddha bowl is a balanced, flavorful veggie meal

Here’s a flavorful vegetarian meal served in a bowl. I use several different vegetables for this meal. You can use any you have on hand. Just follow the amounts in the recipe for a balanced meal. Butternut squash is a treat this time of year, and the best part is that we can buy butternut squash cubes ready to use. I added quinoa to the bowl for its texture and high-protein content.
News >  Family

Full Suburban: Kids happy? Parents happy? This is Halloween

Well, dangit. I accidentally already ate most of the Halloween candy. This is not a rare occurrence, as I seem to do it every year, pillaging the sweets that I’ve purchased well in advance of the holiday. And yet it takes me by surprise every single time.
A&E >  Books

How Apple TV’s ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ compares to the novel

Lots of books are declared “unfilmable.” There are the big, tentacular genre epics, where the problem is scale and expense, like “Sandman” or “Dune.” There are your high-literary properties, whose tone feels too elusive (most of Don DeLillo, though people keep trying) or whose form is too baroque (“Infinite Jest”) to carry well into another medium. Then there’s the stuff that’s just too bleak to be commercially viable, at least in theory (“The Road”).
A&E >  Pop culture

How to sell a haunted house

Real estate agent Arto Poladian knew that taking on the $2 million listing in Los Angeles could be a challenge – even though it was 2021 and the market was extremely hot.
A&E >  Books

Book review: Britney Spears is frozen at the age she got famous

Throughout her 25-year career, Britney Spears’s age has somehow always seemed wrong. Seemed out of step with the persona she presented to the world. Her 2000 smash hit “Oops! ... I Did It Again” found her sorry-not-sorrying for committing repeated romantic transgressions, sounding like a careless, jaded woman at the ripe old age of 18. In 2021, by contrast, on the surreal only occasion when Spears spoke publicly during her conservatorship hearings in Los Angeles, the voice that came out of the 39-year-old mother of teenage sons as she read a statement by phone sounded flustered, frightened, surprisingly babyish. On Instagram, the 41-year-old Spears often posts videos of herself dancing, twirling around in knee-high boots and ultralow-rise barely-there shorts, an adolescent’s idea of a sexy get-up.