The artist formerly known as Kanye West’s Donda Academy is immediately closing for the remainder of the school year, according to a new report. The Times shared a piece on Thursday in which an email […]
“Omar,” the new opera by composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, finds its strength in the simplicity of prayer. The work, which is too fluid to be classified in discrete musical or dramatic genres, is […]
Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar from Senegal, wrote an autobiography in 1831 about how he was captured and sold into slavery for decades in the Carolinas. His memoir, written in Arabic, brims with quotations […]
A team of painters were at work this week restoring the mega-photographed Hollywood sign, a mission that carries a perverse irony. All week I’ve been assaulted by studies and reports describing how Hollywood, the industry […]
SISTER Wives patriarch Kody Brown has grown furious for a reason fans could not believe during Sunday’s episode. He said he did not give ex-wife Christine Brown “permission” to kick him out of their house. […]
With each new episode, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has put more and more emphasis on the morally ambiguous choices our heroes are forced to make. Episode 6, “Udûn,” presented the […]
After her revolutionary Vampire Chronicles series of novels became bestsellers, author Anne Rice followed up that series with another supernatural saga, The Lives of the Mayfair Witches. The first book in the series, The Witching […]
CHRISTINE Brown has shared a rare glimpse of her young daughter, Truley, as the 12-year-old was honored at her middle school. And fans can’t get over how mature and grown up the preteen appears. 5 […]
There’s a quote often attributed to Winston Churchill that asserts history is written by the victors. This idea is what has allowed American students to be universally taught that Christopher Columbus “found” America, despite the […]
Photo by Kizzy O’Neal Today, Sonos Radio and GRAMMY Award-winning filmmaker, producer and manager Emmet Malloy have unleashed all 10 episodes of America’s Dead. With Malloy as a narrator, host and guide, the limited-run podcast […]
When Steve Roud was young, he began collecting records. Hardly unusual for a child of the 1950s – but this boy from south London was different. Not content with just listening to LPs, Roud began […]
As the follow-up to his groundbreaking “Mad Max: Fury Road,” the high-energy desert chase action movie that won six Oscars, Australian filmmaker George Miller is set to surprise audiences again with “Three Thousand Years of […]
I’ll be the first person ever to say Mad Max: Fury Road was not only a revelation but a masterpiece of cinema. (No one has ever said that before me, don’t Google it.) Its mastermind, […]
Fresh off executive producing The Game’s Drillmatic: Heart vs. Mind album, Hit-Boy has dropped more heat with “Fire Proof.” The single finds the producer/rapper reflecting on the highs and lows that come with success before switching the beat […]
Get ready for a very special edition of SNACKED! In the spirit of gearing up for the school season, we asked three First We Feast chefs—George Motz of Burger Scholar Sessions, Nicole Russell of Pizza […]
It’s been over seven years since the great George Miller directed Mad Max: Fury Road. And although he’s continuing the Mad Max mythology with the upcoming Furiosa film, before that he’s got a totally different […]
After rising to fame as a Disney star, Olivia Rodrigo broke the Internet. In January 2021, while recording music for her now-platinum debut album, SOUR, Rodrigo took to TikTok to promote her first single, “drivers license.” […]
UC Berkeley Professor Richard Taruskin, whose 4000-page book The Oxford History of Western Music set a benchmark for writing about the history of classical music. San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst N/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty hide caption […]
Since establishing the Metallica Scholars initiative in 2019, METALLICA‘s All Within My Hands (AWMH) foundation has been working with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) to provide direct support for career and technical education […]
For the last 50 years, David Harrington, the founder and artistic director of San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet, has been playing what he calls “pretty athletic music” on a violin made in 1721. I’ve heard him […]