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TIRED No HomeKit support. Energy Saver mode can wake you up. Heavy and pricey. It’s almost impossible to dislike LG’s Dual Inverter window air conditioner (or if you want to call it by its official name, the LW1019IVSM), especially with temperatures topping 95 degrees in New York City this summer. It cools down my bedroom incredibly fast, and it doesn't get egregiously loud. It's smart too. Before entering my apartment building, I remotely turn it on so I can walk straight into some semblance of bliss.   OK, fine. I did have to go to the hardware store to install it, partly because my w...

Alice Neel, Mike Gold, 1952. © The Estate of Alice Neel Courtesy (Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel and David Zwirner) Is it time to release Michael Gold from his personal gulag to range free in the pastures of 20th-century American literature? BOOKS IN REVIEW By Patrick Chura Gold—“Mike” to his comrades—was a key figure in American letters from the mid-1920s well into the Great Depression. A leading advocate and practitioner of “proletarian literature,” he was also the editor of New Masses, perhaps the most important left-wing periodical of the 1930s. A committed, vocifer...

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Image credit: David Lee Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom has won an Oscar. Hairstylists Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson are the first Black women to win in this category. Makeup artist Sergio Lopez-Rivera is also part of the Oscar-winning team. Neal created 100 wigs for the film, including two for actress Viola Davis, who plays Ma Rainey, the “Mother of the Blues.” The hairstylist, who stu...

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom has won an Oscar. Hairstylists Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson are the first Black women to win in this category. Makeup artist Sergio Lopez-Rivera is also part of the Oscar-winning team. Neal created 100 wigs for the film, including two for actress Viola Davis, who plays Ma Rainey, the "Mother of the Blues." The hairstylist, who studied at Juilliard, worked on the Broadway productions of Julius The Iceman Cometh and designed Oprah Winfrey's wigs for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. In keeping with the real-life Ma Rainey's preferred hairpieces, Neal told Vogue she...

Embed iframe src "https://www.npr.org/player/embed/986125482/986125483" width "100%" height "290" frameborder "0" scrolling "no" title "NPR embedded audio player" The wigs were then fashioned by Wilson, Davis' personal hairstylist since 2008. "She wanted someone who could style her hair and handle it," Wilson told NPR. "African Americans are familiar with both types of hair, y'know? We just don't do one texture of hair. We can do it all. And by actors now speaking up and saying that they want someone who can handle their hair, they have to bring an African American hairstylist because there...