Jan 22 Watch 7:05 Oscar winner and nominee Barry Jenkins on adapting the work of James Baldwin to the screen By Jeffrey Brown The film “If Beale Street Could Talk” is nominated for three Academy Awards, including best supporting actress and best adapted screenplay. Director Barry Jenkins previously drew critical acclaim for his work on the 2017 best picture, “Moonlight.” He sits down… Continue watching
Jan 22 Singer Chris Brown detained in France after rape complaint By Angela Charlton, Associated Press The Grammy Award-winning singer was detained Monday on potential charges of aggravated rape and drug infractions. Continue reading
Jan 22 Oscar nominations led by ‘Roma,’ ‘The Favourite’ with 10 nods By Jake Coyle, Associated Press With "Roma," Netflix has scored its first best picture nomination, something the streaming giant has dearly sought. Continue reading
Jan 21 How the public domain offers new life to these poetry classics By Lora Strum 2019 marks the first mass copyright expiration in more than two decades, freeing up works like Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" for academic, creative and commercial use. Continue reading
Jan 19 Edgar Allan Poe’s greatest mystery was his death By Dr. Howard Markel A man was discovered lying in the gutter, confused, bedraggled, and under the influence. Shabbily dressed (in someone else’s clothing, as it turned out), Edgar Allan Poe was in dire need of medical assistance. Continue reading
Jan 17 An annotated page from ‘Heart’ By Elizabeth Flock Many of the experiments surgeons performed in the 1950s brought us to our current understanding of the human heart, but "would not pass muster with any institutional review board today," Sandeep Jauhar writes. Continue reading
Jan 15 Watch 1:15 Remembering Carol Channing, theater star who didn’t let life pass her by Carol Channing passed away Tuesday at the age of 97. The Broadway legend won fame as Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly!" and performed it more than 5,000 times. Continue watching
Jan 15 Broadway legend Carol Channing has died at age 97 By Mark Kennedy, Associated Press Carol Channing, the lanky, ebullient musical comedy star who delighted American audiences over almost 5,000 performances as the scheming Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly" on Broadway and beyond, has died. Continue reading
Jan 09 Watch 7:19 After her own rape, author says victims of sexual violence are more than ‘broken beings’ By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport After being gang-raped as a teenager in Mumbai, Sohaila Abulali broke taboos around sexual assault by speaking out publicly about her experience. Jeffrey Brown spoke with Abulali about her new book, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape,"… Continue watching
Jan 09 ‘Don’t be such a writer,’ and more advice from author Sandeep Jauhar By Elizabeth Flock The author of new hit book "Heart: A History" says sometimes it's best let the story tell itself and to get out of the way. Continue reading