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The new “Joy Ride” offers a modern-comedy bingo card with pretty much all the squares checked: mismatched besties, an oddball crashing a group outing, said outing going wildly off the rails, freewheeling...

“In the next few years, we’re going to see a lot more diversity in terms of what we mean by A.A.P.I.,” said Jeremiah Abraham, a co-producer of “Yellow Rose” who runs a...

This particular change to “The French Connection” came unexplained and unannounced, so we can only guess at the precise reasoning behind it. But we can imagine why the language was there in...

The Smithsonian’s choice for the founding director of its developing American Women’s History Museum has withdrawn from the role, the institution said Wednesday.A Smithsonian spokeswoman, Linda St. Thomas, said that the new...

Coco Lee, a Chinese American singer and songwriter best known for performing an Oscar-nominated song in the film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” died on Wednesday. She was 48.The cause was suicide, according...

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon MusicThis week’s episode of Popcast (Deluxe), the weekly culture roundup show on YouTube hosted by Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, includes segments...

In the early years of World War II, Godfrey Blunden, an ambitious Australian correspondent for The Sydney Daily Telegraph, was hardly a household name. But in the winter of 1943, Blunden, then...

It was not a conventional chapel, Johnstone noted, but a semiautonomous corporation of musicians in service of the monarch. The Chapel Royal also brought Byrd into contact with its then-organist, Thomas Tallis,...

Black metal has long been associated with the gray skies, snowy landscapes and Norse mythology of Scandinavia. Most people know it, if at all, as the musical genre associated with church burnings...

Growing up in Los Angeles as the fair-skinned daughter of a Black father and a white mother, Christina Quarles, 38, can recall the first time her sense of identity was challenged: “In...