Arts
Entrepreneurs Looking For 'Windfall' Cash In On Climate Change
A new book explores the ways melting Arctic ice yield new shipping channels, new oil and gas resources — and potential profits. Journalist McKenzie Funk delves into the "booming business of global warming" in Windfall.
On This Spanish Slave Ship, Nothing Was As It Seemed
In The Empire of Necessity, historian Greg Grandin tells the story of a slave revolt at sea. The 1805 event inspired Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, and Grandin's account of the human horror is a work of power and precision.
'Pope And Mussolini' Tells The 'Secret History' Of Fascism And The Church
It's commonly thought that the Catholic Church fought heroically against the fascists in Italy. But in The Pope and Mussolini, historian David Kertzer says the church actually lent organizational strength and moral legitimacy to Mussolini's regime.
A/perture Cinema Providing Independent Movies and More for the Triad
There's lots new going on at a/perture cinema in downtown Winston-Salem. Owner Lawren Desai spoke with David Ford about it.
For 'SNL' Cast Member, The Waiting Was The Hardest Part
After years of working at a restaurant by day and performing improv comedy by night, Bobby Moynihan got the opportunity of a lifetime: an audition for Saturday Night Live. But as Moynihan recalls, actually getting his 'big break' on the show was much more difficult.
Before He Fell To Earth, 'The Little Prince' Was Born In N.Y.
Author Antoine Saint-Exupery was French, but his beloved book, The Little Prince, wasn't written in Paris. Saint-Exupery wrote it in New York, and even included references to the island in his original manuscript.
Middle-Aged And Divorced, 'Gloria' Takes On Life's Uncertainties
Gloria is a new film from Chile that centers on a late-middle-aged divorced woman whose life is full of ambiguity. She's played by Paulina Garcia, who won the top acting prize — the Silver Bear — at the 2013 Berlin Film Festival, where the movie was a surprise hit. It opens this week in New York and Los Angeles, and wider next month.
