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Jennifer Lawrence attends the world premiere of "Don't Look Up" at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021, in New York.

‘Don’t Look Up’ exposes the absurdity — and consequences — of climate change denial

Climate Change

“Don’t Look Up,” Adam McKay’s latest feature film, uses humor and the metaphor of an impending, Earth-obliterating comet to satirize the ideological denial of climate change.

Shakespeare in the Park

Arts, Culture & Media

Taste of Streep Is the Instagram Account You Didn’t Know You Needed

Arts, Culture & Media
Actress Meryl Streep (L) and the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Ai-jen Poo, at the 75th Golden Globe Awards.

Millions say #MeToo. But not everyone is heard equally.

Arts

In this week’s new releases, ‘Bourne’ a bust, ‘Hope’ a plus, ‘Campaign’ stupid, hilarious

Arts, Culture & Media

What’s old is new — and award winning — in Academy Award nominations

Arts, Culture & Media

The Oscar nominations came out Tuesday and Hugo was a big winner, with 11 nominations. But across the board, movies set years ago did well this year.

Kids’ movies aren’t just for kids anymore

Arts, Culture & Media

With big name producers and stars, the makers of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and ‘Mr. Fox’ are hoping to appeal to kids AND adults.

Hilary Swank in ‘Amelia’ might not fly

Arts, Culture & Media

“Amelia,” the biopic of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart opening across the country this weekend, might not add another Oscar to Swank’s collection.

From suburbia to surreal — the lives of writers

Arts, Culture & Media

An exploration of the ordinary and extraordinary lives of writers John Cheever, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Donald Barthelme and others.

Tracy Letts: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Tracy Letts is one of the most talented people in American theater today. His play August, Osage County, about a southern family thrown into crisis, won the Pulitzer Prize. Letts is also an acclaimed actor starring in the Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Letts plays George, a frustrated history professor […]