Month: May 2026

“Brandy,” Dr. Feldman says, carefully, “when he says that the sea is his lady, what do you hear?”

El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.’/>

Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, in its Met debut, sees late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead to be reunited with her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera.

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Netflix turned heads in Hollywood by giving Greta Gerwig’s Narnia an exclusive theatrical release, a move that could signal a shift in the streamer’s relationship with movie theaters.

Oklahoma now has its first official “dark sky park” where people get a chance to look at the stars without light pollution.

Riley’s new film centers on a crew of women who steal from luxury fashion stores and sell the goods at lower cost to people who can’t afford retail. He says it’s a challenge to the system.

Aguda’s novel, One Leg on Earth, follows a young woman in Nigeria facing an unintended pregnancy. The Things We Never Say, by Strout, centers on a high school teacher leading a secret life of sadness.

Secretary Duffy, his wife and nine kids took a “Great American Road Trip” to celebrate America’s 250th. They say no taxpayers funded the project. But a nonprofit with transport-related sponsors did.

I was comfortable being a tween pariah—especially when the rejection came from such idiots.

David Attenborough’s acclaimed nature series Life on Earth began production 50 years ago. Now, a PBS documentary captures the host looking back on that series as it’s projected in a screening room.

Tech writer Joanna Stern used AI to read medical results, respond to texts and serve as her therapist. She says her emotional connection to it was unsettling. Her new book is I Am Not a Robot.