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Fresh Fest co-founders Day Bracey (left) and Mike Potter (right) visit with Chris Harris, owner of Black Frog Brewery in Holland, Ohio, near Toledo.

Arts

African-American Craft Beer Brewers Unite To Host A Festival Of Their Own

4:03pm August 10, 2018

by Bill O'Driscoll

Craft beer is booming, but it is not very popular in the African-American community and there are few black brewers. The first craft beer festival for African-American brewers aims to change that.

Ron (John David Washington) and Patrice (Laura Harrier) strike power poses in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman.

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Spike Lee Checks Under The Hood In The Blistering 'BlacKkKlansman'

9:00pm August 09, 2018

by Bob Mondello

Critic Bob Mondello calls Spike Lee's latest, about a black cop who infiltrates the Klan in the '70s, "his most ferociously entertaining (and just plain ferocious) film in years."

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Madeline (Helena Howard, L) and Evangeline (Molly Parker, R) share a moment in Madeline's Madeline.

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'Madeline's Madeline': In This Acting Class, Dreams, Darkness and Dance Come Together

5:01pm August 09, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

A teenaged girl's acting class intersects with her home life in bracing, and not entirely healthy ways, in Josephine Decker's intimate, audacious and wildly experimental film.

Dax (Adam Pally) and friend/comforter in Dog Days.

Arts

'Dog Days' Is Shaggy But Lovable

5:00pm August 09, 2018

by Scott Tobias

Ken Marino directs this conventional if disjointed ensemble rom-com about disparate Los Angeles dog owners. The film finds its legs whenever it leans into its alt-comedy cast and cameos.

She Prefers To Be Called "The Peggy": Jonas (Jason Statham, obviously) reflects the audience's incredulity in The Meg.

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Shark, Weak: Toothless 'The Meg' Snatches Mediocrity From The Jaws Of Defeat

5:00pm August 09, 2018

by Chris Klimek

It's a "somewhat self-aware, mildly sci-fi tinged, numbingly unimaginative watering down ... of a genre landmark, relocated to Asia and aimed squarely at the world's largest movie market: China."

Dallas Roberts and Debby Ryan star in Insatiable, in which story elements are introduced and then abandoned; jokes fall flat, flatter, flattest; and characters change without any explanation or motive.

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'Insatiable' Is Lazy And Dull, But At Least It's Insulting

11:48am August 09, 2018

by Linda Holmes

The new Netflix series Insatiable got early attention for stereotyping its fat-to-skinny lead character, but it's not as bad as all that. It's worse.

Oscar statues are seen backstage during the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California.

Arts

Changes Are Coming To The Oscars

4:22pm August 08, 2018

by Glen Weldon

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is making three major changes, a move that on its face looks like a tie to weak ratings.

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The purchase price of the home featured in opening and closing scenes of The Brady Bunch was not immediately available, but it had been listed at $1.85 million.

'Brady Bunch' House Winner Revealed: HGTV Outbid Lance Bass

11:41am August 08, 2018

by Scott Neuman

The outside of the house was featured in the 1970s sitcom, but the interior scenes were filmed in a Los Angeles studio.

The 'Brady Bunch' House Coming To HGTV

5:19am August 08, 2018

Lance Bass said he had the winning bid to buy the house featured in The Brady Bunch. But it turned out he was outbid by HGTV, which plans to restore it "to its 1970s glory."

Oran Z. Belgrave, founder of the now defunct Oran Z's Black Facts & Wax Museum in Los Angeles, stands in front of the shipping containers that have held most of the contents of his independent African-American history museum since it closed in 2011.

Through A Looking Glass Of Black Americana: The Long, Strange Journey Of Oran Z

7:09pm August 07, 2018

by Samir S. Patel

For decades, Oran Z collected everything he could about black America, from racist tchotchkes to wax figures of Malcolm X, displaying them in his own museum. Now, his life's work is in jeopardy.

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