Arts

Former 'Glee' Actor Mark Salling Found Dead Of Apparent Suicide

6:46pm January 30, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

Salling faced four to seven years in prison for possession of child pornography. He played the character Noah "Puck" Puckerman on the TV show about a high school singing group.

Typist and sometimes sex worker Lotte (Liv Lisa Fries) aspires to become a police detective in Babylon Berlin.

Germany's 'Babylon Berlin' Crime Series Is Like 'Cabaret' On Cocaine

4:54pm January 30, 2018

by Esme Nicholson

The show (now on Netflix) captures a briefly exhilarating time between the world wars, when Berlin had a raging nightlife, a flourishing cabaret scene and a brutal criminal underbelly.

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What A Classic '50s Western Can Teach Us About The Hollywood Blacklist

2:44pm January 30, 2018

Author Glenn Frankel says the 1952 film High Noon was inspired by the toxic political climate of the time. Originally broadcast Feb. 21, 2017.

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Cover detail from Black No More, by George S. Schuyler

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3 Harlem Renaissance Novels Deliver An Ingenious Take On Race

2:03pm January 30, 2018

by Maureen Corrigan

Novelists Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman and George S. Schuyler forged their art in what W.E.B. Du Bois famously called the "double-consciousness" of African-Americans.

Gurneys to remove bodies from the Heaven's Gate cult house are shown in front of the house in the 9,200 sq.-foot mansion in the Rancho Santa Fe gated community in San Diego, Calif., March 27, 1997.

For 'Heaven's Gate' Podcast Host, The Cult Story Hits Close To Home

11:37am January 30, 2018

by Ari Shapiro

When he first heard about the 1997 Heaven's Gate mass suicide, Glynn Washington says, "It felt like that was something that my group could have done."

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'The Hazel Wood' Has Few Uses For Enchantment

7:00am January 30, 2018

by Caitlyn Paxson

In Melissa Albert's dark take on fairy tales, 17-year-old Alice has spent her entire life on the run from her family legacy: a terrifying mythical world created by her grandmother, a famous author.

How Filmmaker Warren Miller Impacted The Extreme Skiing Film Industry

4:54pm January 29, 2018

Pioneering outdoor filmmaker Warren Miller died last week at 93. NPR's Kelly McEvers and Ari Shapiro look back on his life and the early impact he had on the extreme skiing film industry.

Scott and Seth Avett in the HBO documentary May It Last: A Portrait Of The Avett Brothers.

'May It Last' Brings The Avett Brothers From North Carolina To HBO

3:25pm January 29, 2018

by Linda Holmes

Judd Apatow is one of the directors of a new documentary airing on HBO that follows the recording of a Grammy-nominated album from the North Carolina band.

A trio of illustrations from the cocktail book Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Ophelia, King Henry VIII and King Lear.

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Boozing With The Bard: How The Masses Find Common Ground With Shakespeare

2:49pm January 28, 2018

by Kristen Hartke

From a theater company where audiences drink along with the actors to a book of cocktails inspired by his plays, alcohol has long been "a great provoker" in making the Bard's work more relatable.

RuPaul, host of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, says the show isn't intentionally setting out to change minds; its goal is just to entertain and celebrate drag.

Arts

'Flats Are For Quitters': RuPaul Talks Drag, 'All Stars' And Identity Politics

10:44am January 28, 2018

by Danny Nett

Guest judges on this season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars include designer Marc Jacobs and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

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