Pop Culture Happy Hour: Memes, Fads And A Chat With Neil Gaiman
This week, we bring you two segments with comedian Guy Branum from our fall tour, and our friend Petra Mayer chats with author Neil Gaiman about Norse mythology.
Arts
'Out Of Wonder' Aims To Inspire A New Generation Of Poets
Kwame Alexander's new book is a collection of original poems written in the style of 20 famous poets. The aim is to introduce kids to great poetry — and encourage them to write poems of their own.
The Oxford Comma: Great For Listing, Pontificating, And Winning Court Cases
An appeals court dispute between a Maine dairy company and its delivery drivers came down to a single punctuation mark — or rather, the lack of it. Count it a win for the controversial comma.
Trump's Budget Plan Cuts Funding For Arts, Humanities And Public Media
The proposed spending cuts released on Thursday would affect local arts groups as well as public radio and TV stations nationwide.
Tale As Old As Time — And It Shows: 'Beauty And The Beast'
The live-action, CGI-besotted remake of Disney's 1991 animated musical never manages to justify its existence, says critic Andrew Lapin, because it sets out "not to conjure wonder, but nostalgia."
'T2 Trainspotting': Indulgent Film Reunites Indulgent Characters, 20 Years Later
The sequel to Danny Boyle's blisteringly original 1997 movie lacks that film's structure and insight, but the cast can still generate fitful flashes of energy and charm.
A Family Struggles To Connect In The Rueful, Richly Detailed 'After The Storm'
Hirokazu Kore-eda's drama about a stalled writer's attempts to make peace with his extended family is a quiet and meticulously wrought character study.
A Unlikely Romance Blossoms, Rooted In A Secret: 'Frantz'
French writer-director Francois Ozon adapts Broken Lullaby, Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 melodrama about a mysterious Frenchman and a German war-widow in the aftermath of World War I.
Vietnamese American Photographer An-My Le Selected For Whitney Biennial
Vietnamese American photographer An-My Le is one of 63 artists selected for this year's Whitney Biennial. Her new work was shot in Louisiana.
Remembering Bill Walsh's Way With Words
Language authority and Washington Post copy editor Bill Walsh died Wednesday after a long career making other people's writing better.