Tag: fun

Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza offers new perspective on gender violence through a murder mystery and poetry.

You don’t need to be religious to create a meaningful connection to something greater than yourself. If you’re interested in examining that relationship, grab a pen and paper and answer these prompts.

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This year, off-screen tweets may end up swaying the Oscars race. But real-world events and people have been shaping the awards for decades.

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Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new book.

DOGE has eliminated thousands of federal jobs and canceled more than 1,000 contracts. Harvard professor Elizabeth Linos warns, “We’re seeing harms that are not going to be easily undone.”

This year’s race — which includes beloved stars, up-and-coming talents and a pair of songs from a successful but controversial musical — feels wide open. That doesn’t mean all the songs are equally worthy.

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Borisov, who plays the hired henchman Igor in Anora, is the first Russian actor to be nominated for an Oscar in decades. The film has a total of six nominations, including for best picture.

B.A. Parker digs into the historical connection between Black Americans and soap operas with the launching of “Beyond the Gates,” the first ever soap focused primarily on a Black family.

What do The Substance, Nosferatu, and Babygirl have in common? They externalize the characters’ inner feelings – self-loathing, guilt, shame – in the most grotesque ways possible.

Ahead of the Academy Awards, Brittany Luse sits down with IBAM producer Alexis Williams and Pop Culture Happy Hour co-host Aisha Harris, to get into how these trending films bring women’s internal monsters to life.

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Folk musician Rhiannon Giddens said on social media that she has moved her May concert – originally scheduled for the Kennedy Center – to a different venue in Washington, D.C.

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