The Pulitzer jury described the 15-minute piece as a “musical journey full of surprise, with powerful brass and rhythmic motifs that incorporate Black music traditions from the U.S. The music was born out of Project 19, an ambitious commissioning program where 19 women composers were chosen to write music to mark the centennial of the […]
Next week, for the first time in over a year, Stephen Colbert will be taping “The Late Show” in front of a live audience again. TERRY GROSS: One of the things that’s kept me sane this past year is ending nearly every weekday by watching “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” The most troubling things […]
Lupin’s adventures spawned countless French books, movies and TV series, yet until a few months ago, most people I know had never even heard of him. Created by British TV writer George Kay, this French series does for the genius Parisian thief what the show Sherlock did for the world’s greatest consulting detective. Using them […]
What images convey the brutality of slavery but also the beauty of being alive? Cora is a young woman escaped from slavery on a railroad that runs underground. An enslaved man is being burned alive as punishment while behind him, white people are holding a garden party. It was important to me, again, if we’re […]
There has been a lot of discussion in pop culture circles about the depictions of Black pain in recent films and TV shows; I’ll engage that debate more fully later. On the surface, it’s a story about an orphan slave, Cora Randall , who uses the underground railroad to escape a brutal, 19th century-era Georgia […]
Some of the goals are “practical” with plans to update the museum’s website and add more signage in and around the National Gallery’s campus which includes the East and West Buildings and the outdoor Sculpture Garden. Still, the federally funded National Gallery is the second most visited art museum in the U.S., according to The […]
There’s a make-or-break moment in the pilot that establishes that balance, that confidence and that generosity all at once: Ava at her Vegas home. There’s an edge to her comedy, sure, but its not one so sharp that it threatens to cut any of the thousands of tourists that show up to see her shows […]
The Biden administration has called for boosting domestic production of such minerals, including lithium for the lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles. A few miles from the shores of California’s Salton Sea, a construction crew is at work on the future site of Hell’s Kitchen Lithium and Power. This facility, run by the Australian company […]
Amid low inventory and historically low interest rates, some buyers are hitting the market to find they can’t compete with all-cash offers, or bidding wars that escalate well out of their price range. …Read the full story
