Let’s be frank: the movie industry needs another white-teacher-inspires-racially-diverse-class flick like Suge Knight needs another fried Twinkie. Perhaps, then, the astonishing appeal of Laurent Cantet’s The Class—which was released in... Read more
If complicated culinary concepts like “pancakes” and “tuna melt” give you a headache, you’ll appreciate the huge, full color pictures that adorn every other page of George Duran’s new cook... Read more
After watching the Black Theater Ensemble’s production of The Bluest Eye, I left the Black Box Theatre with the conclusion that no one should ever read Toni Morrison’s books—they must... Read more
Sick of reading Thomas Paine’s seminal pamphlet Common Sense? If so, you’re in luck, because apparently Mr. Paine spent the last 232 years getting his M.D. and researching the art... Read more
The National Museum of African Art is easy to miss. Tucked behind the Smithsonian Castle, the low-profile museum is often overlooked by sightseers jonesing instead for T-Rexes, airplanes, and presidential... Read more
“Spectacular Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission” offers a mesmerizing photographic retreat within the typically flashy and crowded National Air and Space Museum. Quite literally tucked away at the end... Read more
As television ratings for the four major networks slip further and further into the boob tube abyss, certain things about the TV industry have been operating differently than in the... Read more
Time for a pop quiz: Which band released 12 studio albums in eight years, sold a total of 545 million records two years after breaking up in 1970, but have... Read more
After the critical success of their 2006 breakthrough , Citrus, Asobi Seksu have tweaked their lush, layered formula on Hush. Much of this new album indulges a colder, more reserved... Read more
M. Ward’s latest release Hold Time is as much an album about loneliness and tragedy as one about religious hope and love. Throughout the album, the crooner’s tender, country voice... Read more
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