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At the MFA, South Korean pop culture in full effect

"Hallyu: The Korean Wave" layers all the fun and flash with meaningful narrative about the country’s triumph over oppression.

Best things to do in Rhode Island: March 21-29
This week: Go on a full moon bike ride, play Taylor Swift trivia, enjoy egg hunts, nature walks, Restaurant Week, and more!

‘Message in a Bottle’ tells a refugee family’s survival story through dance to the music of Sting
Kate Prince choreographed the show, coming to Emerson Colonial next week. "I’m a conduit between music and dance because I do both."

TV CRITIC'S CORNER
Seeing a big screen connection to ‘Dreaming Whilst Black’
The series, which was recently greenlit for a second season by co-producers Showtime and the BBC, covers similar ground to the movie "American Fiction."

Women's History Month

Eight ways to celebrate Women’s History Month in the Boston area

From a festival highlighting female filmmakers to a walking tour spotlighting women of the West End, there’s plenty to do and see — and much of it’s free.
Tell us about a woman in the Boston area who is making a differenceWikipedia edit-a-thon in Jamaica Plain will amplify queer women’s history this MarchWhich trailblazing woman with Mass. ties should be memorialized at the State House?Why gentlemen (ladies, too) prefer Jane Russell
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

There was something strange in my neighborhood — the day I saw ‘Ghostbusters’

As "Frozen Empire" hits theaters, the Globe’s film critic looks back at the original, which turns 40 this year.
MUSIC REVIEW

The songs of Sinead O’Connor and Shane MacGowan fill Carnegie Hall in a fiery salute

An all-star tribute brought their defiant music back to piercing, roaring life. Performers included Billy Bragg, David Gray, Imelda May, Amanda Palmer, Dropkick Murphys, and Bettye LaVette.

Boston Comedy Festival honoring a local legend (but please don’t call him that)

Tony V will be celebrated at the festival for his 40-plus years in stand-up, but the comedian has no intention of easing up any time soon.
NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS

Poetry Out Loud state champion headed to Washington, D.C.; Jane Yolen publishes anthology celebrating a kid’s world

A weekly digest of literary events from around the region
SOUND CHECK

Introducing Sound Check, the Globe’s weekly go-to guide for music lovers

With new releases on the way, Buffalo Tom, Joyner Lucas, and Ballroom Thieves are among a bevy of local artists with some spring in their step.

12 years, a docuseries, and one book later, author still looking for answers on 2011 Waltham triple murder

"This is the biggest crime story out of Boston in several decades," says journalist and "The Waltham Murders" author Susan Clare Zalkind.
Documentaries

‘Where I Became’ tells story of 14 scholars who left South African apartheid to attend Smith College

The documentary about Smith College's South African Education Program contextualizes the history of apartheid in South Africa with interviews of students, archival footage, and personal photos.

Mary Mazzio’s ‘Bad River’ chronicles Wisconsin Native American community’s pipeline fight

Co-produced by former NBA star Grant Hill and narrated by model/actress Quannah ChasingHorse and actor Edward Norton, the David-and-Goliath documentary opens in theaters Friday.

GBH makes Oscars history with winning doc ‘20 Days in Mariupol’

"It’s going to be great to be back in Boston," said FRONTLINE editor-in-chief and executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath. ‘The Boston support’s been incredible.”

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THE STORY BEHIND THE BOOK

‘The Divorcées’ takes readers to a divorce ranch of the 1950s, where friendship is as treacherous as love

Author Rowan Beaird discusses the image of femininity on offer to the book’s characters.

BOOKINGS

Author readings around Boston through March 30

Beverly Jenkins, Emily Franklin, Tricia Rose, Ramie Targoff, Steve Cavanaugh, and Maggie Thrash are among the authors appearing at local bookstores and venues this week

BOOKS

Local bestsellers for the week ended March 17

Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.

M. Emmet Walsh, actor who shined in seedy, menacing roles, dies at 88

In a career spanning more than a half-century, the character actor was credited with enlivening both comedies and dramas with his convincing turns as troubled everymen, crooked authority figures, sadists, intense weirdos, and outright maniacs.

Lewis Black has no complaints about getting off the road

The always-agitated comedian is embarking on his "Goodbye Yeller Brick Road, The Final Tour," with dates this weekend and in September at the Wilbur.

TELEVISION REVIEW

Even if sci-fi isn’t your thing, ‘3 Body Problem’ might be

The Netflix series reestablishes the reputations of “Game of Thrones” creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss as top-notch adaptors. Now they’ve opened up another genre.

TV CRITIC'S CORNER

A hit and a miss for ‘Masterpiece’

Matthew Gilbert thoroughly enjoyed watching “Nolly,” the three-parter starring Helena Bonham Carter that airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on GBH 2. But he did not thoroughly enjoy “Alice & Jack,” the drama that airs after it.

TELEVISION

R.I. House to recognize actress Kali Reis with hero award

Reis, of East Providence, who stars in HBO's “True Detective: Night Country,” will be recognized for her advocacy on behalf of murdered and missing indigenous women and girls.

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A hit and a miss for ‘Masterpiece’

Lewis Black has no complaints about getting off the road

Even if sci-fi isn’t your thing, ‘3 Body Problem’ might be

‘The Divorcées’ takes readers to a divorce ranch of the 1950s, where friendship is as treacherous as love

David Seidler, Oscar-winning writer of ‘The King’s Speech,’ dies at 86

The screenwriter drew on his boyhood struggle overcoming a stutter to write the Oscar-winning screenplay about King George VI’s effort to subdue a stammer while rallying the British people in World War II.

Three years after getting eliminated on ‘The Voice,’ a Westfield singer makes a perfect-score comeback

With a Berklee degree and a lot more experience, Madison Curbelo wowed John Legend & co. this time around. Her next appearance on the show is coming up.

With ‘1972,’ Chadwick Stokes sets a rock opera in the days before Roe

On Friday, Stokes will debut the work-in-progress in a sold-out performance at the Somerville Theatre. It’s a benefit for Calling All Crows, the activist organization he cofounded with his wife, Sybil Gallagher.

Odie Henderson review | ★★

‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ serves nostalgia, lukewarm

“Stranger Things” is ′80s nostalgia for people who didn’t live through the ′80s. The original “Ghostbusters” series evokes firsthand memories for people who did. See how this doesn’t work? The combination is like discovering your parents like the cool thing you like — except this discovery ruins it for your parents, not you.

BOOK REVIEW

Candida Royalle, cofounder of adult film company Femme, tried to bridge the divide between feminist and feminist

A new biography places the adult film actor of the ’70s and ’80s in the center of the war over pornography that pitted social conservatives and feminists against other feminists.

THE TICKET

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are a few recommendations from Globe writers and critics, covering music, theater, comedy, museums, family events, and more.

BOOK REVIEW

Elijah Wald shows us how the world used to sound in ‘Jelly Roll Blues,’ a rollicking history of forbidden early jazz

Unearthing the censored history of American folk and popular music — and the ways we learn about the past

Regina King has ‘no doubt’ Shirley Chisholm would be elected president if she were running today

In 1972, Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman to seek the presidential nomination from a major party. So why don’t more people know about her? “That was the reason my sister and I decided to tell this story," says Regina King, "because we realized how many people hadn’t even heard her name."