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Thursday
A group of nuns deals with loss and violence in The Innocents. Music Box Films hide caption
Gail Perkins (Naomie Harris) and Perry Makepeace (Ewan McGregor) in Our Kind Of Traitor. Roadside Attractions hide caption
In District Merchants, Akeem Davis plays Lance, a freed slave who has a crisis of conscience when he learns his boss, Shylock, may have been involved in the slave trade. Teresa Wood/Courtesy of the Folger Theatre hide caption
This Shakespeare Reconstruction Sets 'Merchant' In Post-Civil War D.C.
Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) gets a look into Giant Country thanks to a Big Friendly Giant (Mark Rylance). Courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures hide caption
Wednesday
The Perennial, in San Francisco, combines industrial touches like poured floors with earthier features, like green tile behind the bar. Courtesy of The Perennial hide caption
'They May Not Mean To, But They Do' Is A Sparkling, Sad Family Affair
Tuesday
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which have been known to carry the Zika virus, buzz in a laboratory in Cucuta, Colombia. Ricardo Mazalan/AP hide caption
Chase exhibited this painting in 1884 under two different titles — The Young Orphan and later, At Her Ease. On loan from the National Academy Museum at The Phillips Collection hide caption
The original USS Enterprise model, from the classic Star Trek TV series, has been restored by the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and will move to a permanent display in the museum's Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall on June 28. Ashley Westerman for NPR hide caption