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Lin-Manuel Miranda jokingly compared himself to a hard-to-catch Pokemon as fans pursued him with cellphones Wednesday during a visit to his parents’ native Puerto Rico shortly after the end of his run on the Broadway hit “Hamilton.” Cheers broke out as Miranda promised to bring the show that won 11 Tony Awards to the U.S. territory, adding that he would like to turn it into a movie in the near future. “I will be your Hamilton!” he said with a wide smile as he arrived in the north coastal town of Vega Alta, where he spent his childhood summers selling ice cream and enlisting neighbors to star in his skits. Miranda credited his Puerto Rico roots for making him a writer, one whose most recent Broadway production earned a Pulitzer Prize for drama, a Grammy and the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History. “When you’re born in the United States but your parents are from here, you always live a double life,” he said in Spanish. “And that’s a good way to be a wr...

We're more than a little obsessed with the "100 Years of..." video series: From turn-of-the-century Brazil to modern-day Ethiopia, it takes viewers on a time-traveling global journey that explains culture by way of beauty and  fashion . One of the studios behind the videos, WatchCut, has shaken it up a bit with decade-by-decade rundown of Puerto Rican beauty looks since 1910 in  both  Puerto Rico and New York—an intentional comparison orchestrated by Christopher Chan, WatchCut’s visual anthropologist. "By putting two histories together side-by-side, we see how complexly they are entangled," Chan explained to BuzzFeed . "We see how migrants to New York bring with them the spirit of the island, but also how styles that emerge in Harlem or the Bronx also recirculate back ‘home’ to Puerto Rico. It’s time to start complicating the idea that one people come from one place, when many of us in the diaspora feel like we always float between two." True to fo...