Jan 19 Jon Stewart to receive Mark Twain lifetime achievement award By Ashraf Khalil, Associated Press Comedian, talk show host and political influencer Jon Stewart has been named the 23rd recipient of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Award for lifetime achievement in comedy. Continue reading
Jan 19 Online again, Sundance prepares to kick off its 44th film festival By Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press The 44th annual Sundance Film Festival is back, and entirely online once more. Continue reading
Jan 19 André Leon Talley, a fashion virtuoso, dies at 73 By Associated Press André Leon Talley was an influential fashion journalist who worked at Women's Wear Daily and Vogue and was a regular in the front row of fashion shows in New York and Europe. Continue reading
Jan 18 Grammy Awards move ceremony to Las Vegas site in early April By Jonathan Landrum Jr., Associated Press The 2022 Grammy Awards will shift to an April show in Las Vegas after recently postponing the ceremony due to growing concerns with the rise of the omicron variant. Continue reading
Jan 18 Microsoft buys video game maker Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press Microsoft is paying nearly $70 billion for Activision Blizzard, the maker of Candy Crush and ‘Call of Duty,’ as it seeks an edge in the fiercely competitive businesses of mobile gaming and virtual-reality technology. Continue reading
Jan 18 LISTEN: The Supreme Court hears cases on religious expression and a Picasso stolen by the Nazis By Associated Press Arguments at the high court appeared to unite justices on the left and right in favor of Harold Shurtleff, a conservative activist. Shurtleff wanted to fly a white banner with a red cross on a blue background in the upper left… Continue reading
Jan 17 Watch 6:36 New museum aims to showcase history of creative labor by actors of color By Jeffrey Brown, Lena I. Jackson The Academy of Motion Pictures is best known for the Oscars, and for the controversy in recent years about the lack of diversity in its ranks and awards. Now the organization has opened a new museum in Los Angeles —… Continue watching
Jan 17 Novak Djokovic returns to Serbia after Australia bars entry, French Open may do the same By Darko Bandic, Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press A plane carrying Djokovic touched down in his native Serbia on Monday. That closed at least the first chapter in a dizzying drama that has resonance in the world of elite sports, Australian pandemic politics and the polarized debate over… Continue reading
Jan 15 Watch 6:24 How Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater balances history and innovation By Christopher Booker This month would have been Alvin Ailey’s 91st birthday; the celebrated modern dance visionary died in 1989. Decades later, his choreography is as vibrant as ever and his company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater remains as innovative. Christopher Booker… Continue watching
Jan 14 Watch 7:21 Immersive Van Gogh exhibits paint a new way of experiencing art By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, Alison Thoet Vincent van Gogh is the quintessential art-world phenomenon, both for his artistic creations and life story. But now, he's everywhere, in a new way: the center of a boom in immersive art experiences. Jeffrey Brown reports for our arts and… Continue watching