Arts
From 'Godot' To HBO, Wendell Pierce Says, Art Aided Post-Katrina Healing
The star of The Wire and Treme remembers fleeing the storm — and returning to devastation. As his community coped with "post-traumatic stress," he says, Treme "became a group therapy in New Orleans."
Typecast As A Cowboy, Sam Elliott Came To Embrace That 'Western Box'
With his handlebar mustache and deep voice, he's mastered the look. And after years playing sharpshooters in the West — and then a stranger at the bowling alley bar — he's finally happy about it.
The Big Question Behind 'Stonewall' Backlash: Who Threw The First Brick?
In reality, no one knows who threw the brick that started the riots; but in a new film, it's a white teenager from Indiana. One activist says that "whitewashes" the history of Stonewall.
Move Over, Dora: 'Nina's World' Brings Another Bilingual Girl To TV
Cable channel Sprout celebrates its 10th anniversary with the launch of its first fully owned, original animated show, "Nina's World." Starring Rita Moreno and Mandy Patinkin, it's about a 6-year-old Latina girl and the multicultural neighborhood she grows up in.
Move Over, Dora: 'Nina's World' Brings Another Bilingual Girl To TV
Cable channel Sprout celebrates its 10th anniversary with the launch of its first fully owned, original animated show, "Nina's World." Starring Rita Moreno and Mandy Patinkin, it's about a 6-year-old Latina girl and the multicultural neighborhood she grows up in.
For Opera Powerhouse Dolora Zajick, 'Singing Is Connected To The Body'
The mezzo-soprano discovered opera as a 22-year-old pre-med student. She took "a crack at a singing career" and has been at the Metropolitan Opera for 25 years. Originally broadcast March 14, 2014.
'99 Homes', A Morality Play Built On Foreclosures And Evictions
In Ramin Bahrani's new film, a man forces others out of their homes in an effort to save his own. Critic David Edelstein says 99 Homes shines a spotlight on a "poisonous financial ecosystem."
Movie Review: 'The Black Panthers' Documentary
Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan talks with Renee Montagne about The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Stanley Nelson's new documentary about the party's rise in the 1960s.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: The Toronto International Film Festival And Our Fall TV Pool
This week, a big fall movie update from Toronto, plus our annual futile effort to predict the future of fall shows.