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“Lupin,” the caper about a thief stealing for revenge that became Netflix’s biggest French hit when it hit the service in January, returns Friday with “Lupin Part Two.” It’s just one of the stories that plays in the gray area between right…

Hollywood has a message for summer audiences: Don’t try this at home. Welcome back to the movies. Not only are major action pictures headed for big-screen theatrical releases, so are the same kinds of niche documentaries and intimate dramas…

When Ross Bollinger posted a video of an animated stick figure online in 2004, YouTube didn’t exist and the 16-year-old artist didn’t envision a web show. Today, Mr. Bollinger’s stick figure—who is named Pencilmate and has Curious George’s…

The pandemic changed everything about life, and death, in the last year. Amid the chaos and quarantine, people across the nation were unable to honor their loved ones at traditional funerals. A recent…

As a most unusual—and exhausting—school year winds down, families are looking at a summer of changing pandemic rules and new possibilities. For many kids, there’s excitement about camp and beach vacations. But there are a lot of questions…

How can I prevent Alzheimer’s? Are there any treatments out there for people who already have it?“Those are the two things people want to know,” says P. Murali Doraiswamy, director of the Neurocognitive Disorders Program at Duke University…

The coronavirus pandemic sparked a bicycling boom last year that shows no signs of slowing. Whether you are brand new to the sport or an experienced cyclist, you are susceptible to neck and low back pain if you aren’t conditioning…

Buck Woodruff, 71, owner of the Honda Carland car dealership in Roswell, Ga., and his son Harrison Woodruff, 21, a college student, on their 1964 Jeep, as told to A.J. Baime. Buck Woodruff: I learned to…

Jim Morrison always wanted to be a writer. A year before he died in 1971, the Doors singer even told an interviewer he thought poetry, not music, was the ultimate art form. But rock ‘n’ roll stardom got in the way. On…

American tourists will be welcome in much of Europe this summer as the pace of vaccinations there accelerates. While some places will still be closed or restricted—Siena’s Palio horse race is canceled in July—many countries are rolling out…