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Tucked away in the hills of Los Santos, a wondrous and lawless land, is the Vinewood Bowl, a gigantic amphitheater that typically sits empty. Modeled after the real-life Hollywood Bowl in Los...

The most famous beastly sculpture in the college town of Athens, Ga., is — improbably — not a bulldog. It is an 11-foot-tall welded steel horse, an abstract labyrinth of undulations and...

Jon Ingold finds most video game writing empty at best, turgid at worst.Ingold, an author of celebrated narrative-driven games including 80 Days and Heaven’s Vault, acknowledged that his writing tastes were “fussy”...

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, whose memoir about living as a child in an internment camp during World War II put a personal stamp on the hysteria that led the United States government to...

Sometime in the 1950s, Zilia Sánchez, a Cuban-born painter, was crying on a Havana rooftop, mourning the recent death of her father, when she caught a sight that would shape her career...

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicThe Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” focuses on just a few crucial years at the beginning of the songwriter’s career, from 1961, when...

The directorial thumbprint of David Lynch spawned its own adjective decades ago, perhaps most thoroughly codified by the writer David Foster Wallace. Sent by Premiere magazine to the set of Lynch’s 1997...

Hear tracks by Perfume Genius, Lucy Dacus, Bartees Strange and others.

When the musicians of the San Antonio Philharmonic gathered on a recent night to rehearse Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the mood was celebratory.The Philharmonic, which was formed after the demise in 2022 of...

A conjurer of cinematic dreamscapes that bordered on nightmare, a creator of images that burned themselves onto the back of one’s eyelids, the director (and actor, musician and artist) David Lynch cut...