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NEW YORK (AP) — Kawhi Leonard and Paul George of the Los Angeles Clippers were chosen as All-Star reserves Thursday, while the Minnesota Timberwolves and New York Knicks also had two players selected. Anthony Edwards and Karl-Anthony Towns of the Western Conference-leading Timberwolves will be going to the Feb. 18 game in Indianapolis. Stephen Curry is an All-Star for the 10th time, while the Lakers' Anthony Davis and Devin Booker of Phoenix rounded out the West reserves. Jalen Brunson was selected for the first time and was joined by teammate Julius Randle from the Knicks, who went 14-2 in January. They had to choose three frontcourt players, two guards and two other players, regardless of position.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Boy George — the Culture Club icon of the 1980s — is returning to Broadway in “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.”The singer-songwriter whose hits include “Karma Chameleon” and “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” will play Moulin Rouge club owner Harold Zidler in the jukebox adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s hyperactive 2001 movie. He starts Feb. 6 and ends May 12 at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre, taking over the role from Tituss Burgess. Boy George was last represented on Broadway in 2003 with “Taboo,” for which he wrote music and lyrics. He also performed in that show, but did not play himself.

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☆ ‘American Pain’ Review: Entrepreneurs of an Epidemic
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

A Wild West story set in the Sunshine State, “American Pain” uses the outrages of Chris and Jeff George —identical twins and the most entrepreneurial of Florida’s “pill mill” operators of the late 2000s—to frame the most tragic aspects of the opioid epidemic. Mr. Foster has an advantage in the fact that the Georges were already convicted and that they and their cohort have served their sentences (with the exception of Jeff George, who is interviewed by phone from prison). No one involved in their South Florida Pain Clinic—or its alias, American Pain—has any reservations about revealing details of the audacious business model on which the Georges built their operation, which federal investigators say was allowed to thrive thanks to a network of complicit doctors, suppliers and manufacturers. Transcripts of FBI phone taps reveal a laissez-faire attitude toward the costs of opioid addiction. “People have always overdosed,” says one George twin; “you’d have to be an idiot to get hit by a train,” says another, after a carload of customers was crushed just after leaving the clinic.

☆ Of course audiobooks count as reading
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Judi Ketteler | Judi Ketteler Frequently Writes About Self-Awareness. She Is The Author Of | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

This year, I joined nearly 6.5 million other people and set a reading challenge via Goodreads. I love to read, but these days by evening — the time of day I’ve always allotted for reading — I’m falling asleep. Not only is this argument insufferable, made — and I’m just guessing — by insufferable people, it’s also the worst kind of ableism. Either way, listening and reading both engage audiences in the same act of absorbing a story. This idea that listening to books is cheating still circulates, especially when people share their reading lists and brag about their reading challenges — which is when “counting” takes on an even more literal meaning.

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