Category: 5. Entertainment

If you were scouting about for a feature documentary subject, porridge might not be the first thing you’d think of. That is, unless you were Australian opera and theatre director turned documentary film maker, Constantine Costi, who has…

The Japanese writer-director Mamoru Hosoda has made some amazing films that take profound leaps into dreamlike worlds.

Hosoda’s “Mirai” (2018) is about a 4-year-old boy who’s resentful of his newborn sister. But in his backyard garden, he…

Winter? Taylor Swift doesn’t know her.

On Wednesday, the singer arrived at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in a classic TS outfit: a dove gray Max Mara teddy bear coat with a black shirt, a low-slung brown checked Miu Miu miniskirt (complete…

In Memoriam

This week, we honor a sculptor of buildings, a photographer of the absurd, and the “Chekhov of Trenton.”

For Oquendo, two blushes he’s loved using this year include the e.l.f. Cosmetics Cheek Stain and Estée Lauder Futurist Blushmaker Dewy Cheek Tint Liquid Blush. With the e.l.f. Stains, he loves to underpaint with them to give a natural-looking…

In his recent book The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising, Jasper Bernes laments that a lot “of self-organization during our own period … often takes place without any revolutionary…

NEW YORK — Behind the Wizard of Oz in the two-part “Wicked” movies were people actually pulling the strings. They set the table for the hit double-punch movies long before the cameras ever rolled out: The casting directors, helped pick who…

SAO PAULO — Brazilian authorities said Wednesday that one of the two suspects behind a brazen daylight robbery over the weekend in Sao Paulo remained at large following a heist that included eight works by French artist Henri Matisse.

The other…