Category: Arts & Entertainment

After three decades in Southern cuisine, Lee’s next culinary chapter explores Korean American cooking, moving beyond traditional recipes and fusion concepts.

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Here, starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, was adapted from a millennia-spanning graphic novel. But it’s a technically and narratively difficult story on-screen and the result is crowded and confusing.

The new nonprofit Broadway Votes is corralling musical theater celebrities to help with the effort both both on stage and online.

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About 10,000 people a week come to visit the White House. But until recently, they got a public tour that hadn’t changed in decades.

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The California Department of Motor Vehicles issued driver’s licenses to some San Franciscans with the city listed as ‘San Fran’ — a reviled nickname among the city’s residents. Uproar ensued.

In a film that has powerful moments of wonderment, humor and joy, Saoirse Ronan plays a London factory worker trying to protect her young son as German bombs fall across the city.

Garr, who died Oct. 29, started out as a dancer in Elvis films, and was later nominated for an Oscar for Tootsie. David Bianculli offers an appreciation, and we listen back to a 2005 interview.

Through her independent documentary project Rainbow Girls, photographer Julia Gunther captures the stories of protection and prejudice among a group of South African lesbian women.

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Fred the World-Weary Warthog, the Poll Terror, Professor Numbington, and others.

In his new play The Other Americans, John Leguizamo stars as a Colombian American laundromat owner whose son is released from a mental wellness facility after suffering a trauma. The play’s world premiere is at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.

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