The 81st Golden Globes kicked off Hollywood’s awards season on Sunday in a chaotic and sloppy manner, with the host, Jo Koy, delivering a train wreck of a monologue, winners alternately seeming...
Read moreAs Hollywood heads into the heart of its awards season — a three-month orgy of frothy self-celebration and pop culture glamour — celebrities and their handlers find themselves with a serious decision...
Read more“The Color Purple,” a new musical take on Alice Walker’s landmark novel, seemed to arrive as an instant hit.Awash in critical exultation, the movie rolled into theaters on Christmas Day and sold...
Read moreKlee Benally, a dynamic Navajo activist, artist and punk-rock musician who championed Native American and environmental causes, died on Dec. 30 in Phoenix. He was 48.His death, in a hospital after a...
Read moreIn “Angel Island,” a staged oratorio about the anguish and isolation of Chinese detainees at Angel Island Immigration Station in California, a choir recites a poem about tyranny and misfortune.“Like a stray...
Read moreLawrence Sullivan, famously known as the "Florida Joker," has resurfaced with fresh threats and an increased demand of $10 million from Rockstar Games. Sullivan gained notoriety after publicly criticizing Rockstar for featuring...
Read morePaul Giamatti would just like to put it out there that maybe he doesn’t always have to play such a motormouth.It might be nice, just to shake things up a bit, if...
Read moreThe video game begins with a disturbing scene: a city almost entirely underwater. The city's developers must reclaim land from the sea in order to build new infrastructure, but too much digging...
Read moreWith GTA 6 generating buzz for its gripping single-player storyline, the spotlight is increasingly turning toward the highly anticipated online component. The success of GTA 5's online experience, particularly the meteoric rise...
Read more6Feminist LiteratureIn the late ’80s and early ’90s, I started reading Audre Lorde and Alice Walker and Judy Grahn and bell hooks and Adrienne Rich and Lucille Clifton. These poets and philosophers...
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