Arts & Culture

Ken Burns Does Da Vinci

In a previous interview with Ken Burns, the director told me, “If I was given 1,000 years, I would not run out of topics of American history.” It turns...

What Quiet Meditation on an Eastern Himalayan Moth Can Teach Us

‘Nocturnes’ just concluded its play at Metrograph in New York. It is currently playing at Royal in Los...

Boogey, man!: Resurrecting our All Hallows Eve Top 40

Originally published on Oct. 31, 2023For some of us, Halloween is the only holiday that matters. A pagan...

Novelizations Have Risen From the Grave

“It’s the genre that allows you to take the biggest swings,” says writer and publisher Mark Alan Miller...

A Restless Restitution in Africa

Three years ago, 26 royal objects looted by French troops in the 1890s were returned from Paris’s Musée...

The Week John and Yoko Seized American TV

As the Vietnam War raged into 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono took their Bed-In for Peace to the American airwaves. Now, on what...

When John and Yoko Seized American TV

As the Vietnam War raged into 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono took their Bed-In for Peace to the American airwaves. Now, on what...

Crossroads: The Military, the Monetary, the Mercenary

Having produced many anti-war mixes over time, I recently noticed an uptick in Military-Industrial Complex discussions. The unmonitored, oft-inconspicuous MIC, with its free-reign, carte-blanche...

A Photographer’s Legacy, Airbrushed

It’s surprising that it took this long to give Lee Miller the Hollywood treatment. A former model and eventual frontline World War II photographer,...

Challenging Popular Narratives on the Sandinsita Revolution

Alain Rouquié once argued that the 1979 Sandinista Revolution marked Central America’s entry into global modernity. While that may be an exaggeration, what is...

John Leguizamo: Decolonizing Hispanic History Onscreen

Starting with his 1986 TV debut on “Miami Vice,” John Leguizamo’s roles have ranged from action/crime productions to a drag queen in 1995’s “To...

Ken Burns Does Da Vinci