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At Cynthia, an emphasis on low-waste cooking yields a menu of thrilling abundance.

In Patagonia, los puesteros look after other people's livestock for not very much money, and sometimes go months without seeing anyone else.

Presbyopia, an eye disorder that results in blurred vision at previously normal reading lengths, is contracted by every person over 45.

Barbara Kopple's documentary follows a generation of starlets, moguls, and other tanned partygoers who have no idea what tragedies and class anxieties lie in store.

Dave Green's film about Wile E. Coyote's quest for compensation sounds a note of zany triumph, having escaped, Road Runner-like, Warner's attempt to cancel it.

Phoebe Bridgers's new album, "Lost Weekend," is a document of both rupture and redemption.

If the world seems to waste our time, it's partly because we view time itself as a resource to be extracted and optimized.

Culture preview: what's coming this season in TV, movies, art, theatre, dance, and music.

Maybe there's still hope for a new morning, for clouds that cluster like ripe grapes which, when squeezed, will release from the heavens the sweet streams of enchanted days.

And no one's the wiser.