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The Man Behind the Legendary Donkey Kong Country Soundtracks

David Wise turbocharged the Super Nintendo for scores inspired by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Prokofiev, Duran Duran and more.

By Darryn King

Content Type: Personal Profile Culture (Arts) deBessonet, Lear Locke, Joe (Actor) New York City Center Theater Once Upon a Mattress (Play) Ragtime (Play) Richard, Cody Renard Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Play) Theater Theater (Broadway)

7 Days in the Cultural Life of a Broadway Stage Manager

When he’s not herding performers at “Once Upon a Mattress,” Cody Renard Richard is bowling, catching up with theater friends and, to his surprise, bumping into Beyoncé.

By Sarah Bahr

Books and Literature Cher (1946- ) Cher: The Memoir (Book) Content Type: Personal Profile Movies Pop and Rock Music Television

Cher Can, and Does, Turn Back Time

In the first volume of her memoir (which she hasn’t read), she explores her difficult childhood, her fraught marriage to Sonny Bono and how she found her voice.

By Elisabeth Egan

Amsterdam (Netherlands) Content Type: Personal Profile Folk Music Gentrification Netherlands Straat, Sophie

Sophie Straat Fights Gentrification With Folk Music

Sophie Straat is reviving a style of music once popular in the working-class bars of Amsterdam to protest an increasingly expensive and homogenized city.

By Thomas Rogers

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