OK, folks, I think it’s safe to consider winter is over, such as it was. I have gardened here for nearly 50 years and have never been able to dig holes in January or February. It was strange to be out finishing a major path project in a sweatshirt. On to spring.
When it came to his production of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” director Tim Bangle had a vision. The Shakespeare comedy is set in ancient Athens, but Bangle knew he could make a modern-day setting work and decided on New York City.
“The Phil Collins Story” looks to not only bring the iconic music of the man behind songs like “In the Air Tonight” and “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)” to life, but his legendary story as well.
For those of us who watched all six seasons of the British crime series “Peaky Blinders,” the release of the Netflix feature film “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man” provides us with a final reckoning to the story of the fictional gang leader Tommy Shelby.
The “Super Mario Bros.” world has always been a family affair – it’s right there in the title, after all. The wildly successful 40-year-old Japanese video game franchise features a pair of Italian American plumber brothers from Brooklyn who spend their time powering up and jumping around the Mushroom Kingdom. But their motley crew of friends and enemies haven’t had their own sibling dynamic until now, in “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” the sequel to the 2023 smash animated hit, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.”
In 2024, Tinashe sang “is somebody gonna match my freak?” in her hit song “Nasty,” and the lyric became an almost philosophical way of seeing the world. Is matching freaks our ultimate goal as human beings, and what would it look like to share our freakiest self with someone else? What is allowed under the freaky umbrella? These are the sort of questions that animate Norwegian auteur ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: When visiting my home, friends and relatives sit down and immediately put their feet on the sofa, even though I have a leather hassock for resting their feet sitting in front of the sofa.
You may have heard: Taco Bell is getting into the beauty business. Because nothing says clear skin like Cheesy Gordita Crunch and Beefy 5-Layer Burrito. The fast-food chain announced last week that it would be introducing "Mountain Dew Baja Blast Under Eye Patches" later this year. (Yes, really.) The news came at Taco Bell's Live Más Live gala March 10, during which the company introduced more ...
I’ve asked my husband to use a mesh splatter guard, or to sauté meat at a lower temperature, but he is set in his ways. (And I love him dearly, so will not ding him for this.) Do you have any advice for how to sear, blacken or char meat without creating so much splatter?
As COVID-19 restrictions were being lifted, theaters were looking for ways to take the first step toward a new normal, a way to start small and remember what it was like to produce a performance.
Hello, dear readers! Welcome to a bonus letters column. Right before writing this column, we made the annual shift into daylight saving time. We’ve given up an hour of morning light for a longer, sunlit evening. DST sparks debate on a range of issues, including the potential effects on sleep and health. We’ll be exploring some of those soon. But now, on to your letters.
Dear Annie: I’ve been married to my husband for six years, and for the most part we have a happy, peaceful life together. It gets complicated with my in-laws.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I teach seventh grade in a suburban school. I have noticed an increasingly unsettling trend as I walk around the room to check on students: Nobody says “yes, please” or “no, thank you” anymore.
If you live in North Texas, you may have recently stumbled across a peculiar road closure. Perhaps you saw a clue in the form of a sign that read “SET.” The commotion most likely traced back to Taylor Sheridan, the Fort Worth-raised show creator who has churned out TV hits at a dizzying pace.
James Lowe, music director and conductor of the Spokane Symphony, left no doubt as to the effect he wished the orchestra’s seventh “Masterworks” concert to have on its audience: It was to feel the joy, the energy, the sense of renewal that comes with the arrival of spring. Thus, he used the Italian word for spring, “Primavera,” to name the program, and then built it up by selecting three works full of warmth, color and energy.
