内容摘要：— One of the best American documentaries of last year, Lana Wilson’s “Look Into My Eyes,” will be available to stream on Max on Wednesday. The film takes views into the lives of several New York City psychics – their sessions, their homes, their own stories, creating a rather profound portrait of humanity as contained in this strange, misunderstood and abused tradition. Wilson, who has also made documentaries about Taylor Swift with “

— One of the best American documentaries of last year, Lana Wilson’s “Look Into My Eyes,” will be available to stream on Max on Wednesday. The film takes views into the lives of several New York City psychics – their sessions, their homes, their own stories, creating a rather profound portrait of humanity as contained in this strange, misunderstood and abused tradition. Wilson, who has also made documentaries about Taylor Swift with “

“For those who feel, as I do, that the interests of diverse groups have priority over the needs of nation and society, multiperspectival news and some decentralization of the national media are preferable,” he wrote. “It would be a good deal more effective if it coincided with widespread public demand for greater popular representation in the economy and the polity.”Gans’ other books included “Middle American Individualism,” “The War Against the Poor” and “People, Plans and Policies.” In “Imagining America in 2033,” published in 2009, he outlined his hopes for a “fairer economy, a more democratic polity, and institutions that cater to a greater extent to the people they are supposed to serve.”

Born in Cologne, Germany to middle-class Jewish parents, Gans and has family fled the Nazis in 1939, moving first to England and settling in Chicago in 1940. Gans became a naturalized citizen in 1945 and served in the Army in 1945-46. He had already liked reading sociology in high school and studied it as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, where he became close to such faculty members as the social scientist Martin Meyerson and David Reisman, the future author of “The Lonely Crowd,” the classic portrait of social anxiety in 1950s America. Gans received a master’s in sociology from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D., in 1957, from the University of Pennsylvania.He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Teachers College before joining Columbia in 1971 and remaining until 2007. He also worked in local government, as an assistant planner for the Chicago Housing Authority, and at the federal level with the predecessor to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He was married twice, most recently to Louise Gruner.Gans was a highly educated, liberal Democrat whose belief in diversity meant he resisted imposing his tastes, whether upon his neighbors in Levittown or upon his readers. In the 1974 book “Popular Culture and High Culture,” he disputed the idea that so-called elite tastes were superior to those of the masses and criticized scholars who followed “their own standard of the good life.”

He wrote, “all people have a right to the culture they prefer, regardless of whether it is high or popular. The book is thus an argument for cultural democracy and an argument against the idea that only the cultural expert knows what is good for people and for society.”Dave Shapiro, a groundbreaking music executive in the heavy metal and hard rock scene, has

Shapiro had a pilot’s license and was listed as the owner of the plane that crashed, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The music agency Sound Talent Group confirmed Shapiro died in the Thursday morning crash along with two employees.

“We are devastated by the loss of our co-founder, colleagues and friends,” the agency said in a statement.halted more than a year of the latest Israel-Hezbollah fighting, providing the country with some respite though not a complete end to hostilities.

Christians take part in the traditional Palm Sunday procession in Quraye, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Christians take part in the traditional Palm Sunday procession in Quraye, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Since the ceasefire, Israel has carried out almost daily airstrikes that have killed scores of civilians and members of the militant Lebanese Hezbollah group. Israel has said that its strikes in Lebanon are in response to ceasefire violations by Hezbollah and to prevent the group from rearming. Hezbollah started launching attacks on Israel a day after the Israel-Hamas war erupted on Oct. 7, 2023, with the Palestinian militants’ attack on southern Israel.A Christian Lebanese family poses for a photo during Palm Sunday Mass at the Maronite Church of St. George in Quraye, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)