Arts

Photographers with a comic outlook on life seldom win the acclaim granted to exalters of nature or chroniclers of war and squalor. Elliott Erwitt, who died at 95 on Wednesday at his...

Opening monologue of the weekSpeaking of gifts: This weekend marked the fifth time that Emma Stone has hosted “S.N.L.” which meant that she could now be inducted into the show’s vaunted Five-Timers...

Tim Dorsey, who drew on his years as a crime reporter to fuel a second career writing a long series of darkly comic thrillers set along the back roads and back alleys...

Gabriela Charatsari, a renowned author based in Berlin, Germany, has captivated young readers worldwide with her heartwarming children's books. With her latest release, "The Magical Key," Charatsari once again weaves a tale...

Dear readers,For reasons too tedious to type much less force you to read, I spent a lot of time last month in waiting rooms. In one of these rooms I began to...

Her obsessive goal of training an elite small-town cheer squad into national champions made Monica Aldama one of the most famous cheer coaches in the country.But Ms. Aldama, who entranced viewers in...

Hi, I’m Todd Haynes, and I’m the director of ‘May December.’ : “Now, this is silly.” “This is actually very serious business.” “If you say so.” So in this scene, Natalie Portman,...

“Wolfram, wake up!” came a shout from the highest box seats of the Metropolitan Opera. “The spring is polluted!”At first, it seemed like an odd thing to throw at the character of...

With the flow of holiday releases now akin to the gush exploding out of a broken fire hydrant, it’s tough to figure out which movies deserve your attention: Hallmark alone has 42...

Sometimes the best reason to watch a movie is because Isabelle Huppert is in it. That’s pretty much true of “La Syndicaliste,” a tangled if certainly watchable French true-crime drama about dirty...