“SpongeBob SquarePants” out to make a splash

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“SpongeBob SquarePants,” a cartoon denizen of the deep, is making his Broadway debut. Our David Pogue has a preview:  “SpongeBob SquarePants” has been on the Nickelodeon TV Channel for 18 years and is still going strong. It tells absurdist tales of an optimistic sea sponge who lives in a pineapple […]

Carmen de Lavallade on a life well danced

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Countless young dancers have followed in the footsteps of Carmen de Lavallade, the Grande Dame of American dance who’s among those receiving Kennedy Center honors in Washington tonight. She’s been shattering barriers almost all her life, as Rita Braver now shows us:  The elegant 86-year-old in pink putting young members […]

White nationalist group set up memorial to Kate Steinle

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SAN FRANCISCO — A white nationalist group set up a memorial for Kate Steinle near where she was shot at Pier 14, just one of several impassioned reactions after an undocumented immigrant was found not guilty of murder in her shooting death, CBS San Francisco reports.  The group, called Identity […]