The best documentary award became part of the Oscars in 1942, and the list of winners is genuinely fascinating. In the category’s early years, the State Department and various branches of the...
Read moreIn October 2022, Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune reviewed “The Notebook” when it played at the Goodman Theater, and raved that Michaelson had written “an absolutely gorgeous suite of songs.” But...
Read moreAt a time when many orchestras are relying on entrenched repertoire and beloved artists to shore up their dwindling audiences, the New York Philharmonic on Thursday night offered three thrilling new perspectives...
Read moreSnubbed!Every year since the Academy Awards were invented, somebody has been overlooked, ignored, passed over, disregarded or brushed off. You know what they say about beauty and beholders.But perceived Oscar omissions —...
Read more▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube4. Sturgill Simpson: “Life of Sin”Many musicians appear in Martin Scorsese’s grand “Killers of the Flower Moon,” including Jason Isbell, Pete Yorn, Charlie Musselwhite and...
Read more“Prologue” is actually the final track on Kamasi Washington’s coming album, “Fearless Movement,” and it’s dense and bustling. Double time drumming, frenetic percussion and hyperactive keyboard counterpoint roil around a melody that...
Read moreIgor Levit, a pianist of awe-inspiring insight and redoubtable technique, decided to conduct himself during his solo recital at Carnegie Hall on Thursday.He was playing the Nocturne from Hindemith’s “Suite 1922,” a...
Read more‘Kuessipan’Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.This gorgeous French Canadian drama opens with two orbs of light approaching the camera in a dark, nocturnal frame. Slowly, the joyous faces of a pair of...
Read moreGTA Online, the long-standing gaming phenomenon, celebrates over a decade of action with an exhilarating addition – the GTA Online's Cluckin' Bell Farm Raid Expansion. Brace yourselves for an immersive narrative featuring...
Read more“Eternal Sunshine” is Grande’s most sustained collaboration with pop’s own Wizard of Oz, the Swedish hitmaker Max Martin, with whom she wrote or produced 11 of its 13 tracks. (Ilya Salmanzadeh, a...
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