Arts and Entertainment

Puzzle No. 3496

Puzzle No. 3496 Puzzle No. 3496

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Curry specialty: pintos, cooked and spicy (5,4)  6 Flip about knight (one getting out of bed) (5)  9 Progressive, s…

Apr 11, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

In Claudia Rankine’s ‘The White Card’, Timely Questions of Race and Representation Take Center Stage

In Claudia Rankine’s ‘The White Card’, Timely Questions of Race and Representation Take Center Stage In Claudia Rankine’s ‘The White Card’, Timely Questions of Race and Representation Take Center Stage

The poet’s debut play addresses appropriation, cultural ownership, and dirty money in the art world.

Apr 10, 2019 / Alisa Solomon

The Salad Giant Sweetgreen Has Used Hip Hop to Turn Lettuce Into Gold

The Salad Giant Sweetgreen Has Used Hip Hop to Turn Lettuce Into Gold The Salad Giant Sweetgreen Has Used Hip Hop to Turn Lettuce Into Gold

But if the salad giant is so woke, why are 95 percent of its shops in majority white neighborhoods?

Apr 10, 2019 / Aaron Ross Coleman

What to Do When Art Leaves You Speechless

What to Do When Art Leaves You Speechless What to Do When Art Leaves You Speechless

Optic Nerve, the debut novel from Argentine writer María Gainza, is an exquisite and intimate look into one person’s idiosyncratic vision of art history.

Apr 8, 2019 / Dustin Illingworth

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway and Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders watch as Vice President Mike Pence speaks to reporters after a meeting between President Donald Trump and Congressional Democrats about the U.S. government partial shutdown and the president's demand for a border wall in the Situation Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 9, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Who’s Going to Tell Trump? Who’s Going to Tell Trump?

Breaking: A report from inside the White House reveals infighting among advisers, consternation over Norwegian socialism, and the importance of chocolate milkshakes.

Apr 4, 2019 / Calvin Trillin

Angel-Ho Is the Future of Pop Music

Angel-Ho Is the Future of Pop Music Angel-Ho Is the Future of Pop Music

The Cape Town artist’s daring new album Death Becomes Her upends the language and conventions of pop pleasure.

Apr 4, 2019 / Sasha Geffen

Puzzle No. 3495

Puzzle No. 3495 Puzzle No. 3495

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Actress putting lettuce in canned stew (7,6)  9 Phosphorus and others make up part of a flower (5) 10 TV personalit…

Apr 4, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

The Uncommon Grace of SASAMI

The Uncommon Grace of SASAMI The Uncommon Grace of SASAMI

The “emotionally huge” rock music of Sasami Ashworth lands like a gut punch on her debut album.

Apr 1, 2019 / Olivia Horn

Can ‘Captain Marvel’ Withstand the Marveldämmerung?

Can ‘Captain Marvel’ Withstand the Marveldämmerung? Can ‘Captain Marvel’ Withstand the Marveldämmerung?

On the comic book universe’s Gesamtkunstwerk and other recent films.

Mar 28, 2019 / Stuart Klawans

Little Death

Little Death Little Death

after Jonathas de Andrade When a man traps a fish he removes the hook from its side and once it has beaten its fright into the wooden boat with its strongest slaps he will clutch t…

Mar 28, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Galvin

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