Arts and Entertainment

Puzzle No. 3387

Puzzle No. 3387 Puzzle No. 3387

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Awkwardly, I tutor cops to make ham (10)  6 Laugh at radio personality’s sacred journey (4)  9 Legendary sea dwelle…

Jan 21, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Hawks

Hawks Hawks

Hawks kettling on the thermals high above the Appalachians on their way south—it looks like thought, the mind floating by way of association, veering and floating, circling back to…

Jan 21, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Arnold

David Bowie Set Off My Inner Squeal

David Bowie Set Off My Inner Squeal David Bowie Set Off My Inner Squeal

As I was growing up in 1960s England, Bowie gave me room to find myself.

Jan 14, 2016 / Laura Flanders

David Bowie Singing

David Bowie, the ‘Apolitical’ Insurrectionist Who Taught Us How to Rebel David Bowie, the ‘Apolitical’ Insurrectionist Who Taught Us How to Rebel

With delight and ease, Bowie broke the boundaries of gender and sexuality.

Jan 11, 2016 / John Nichols

Jewy, Queer, Daring, and Political, ‘Transparent’ Pushes Past Parody

Jewy, Queer, Daring, and Political, ‘Transparent’ Pushes Past Parody Jewy, Queer, Daring, and Political, ‘Transparent’ Pushes Past Parody

The second season is even better—more expansive, textured, and emotional—than the first.

Jan 11, 2016 / Alisa Solomon

Visualizing the Four Freedoms: FDR’s Fighting Artist, Arthur Szyk

Visualizing the Four Freedoms: FDR’s Fighting Artist, Arthur Szyk Visualizing the Four Freedoms: FDR’s Fighting Artist, Arthur Szyk

We all know about Norman Rockwell. But it was Szyk who best conveyed the life-or-death urgency of the struggle against fascism.

Jan 8, 2016 / Allison Claire Chang

Puzzle No. 3386

Puzzle No. 3386 Puzzle No. 3386

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 What’s heard from both sides of America: Deconstruct Shaw, including the start of Candida (5)  4 Effervescent cast…

Jan 7, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Werner Herzog, 1991.

Werner Herzog’s Maniacal Quests Werner Herzog’s Maniacal Quests

A newly published travel journal shows how walking, like filmmaking, brings us to the naked core of existence.

Jan 7, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg

Hodgepodge, Mismatch, and Wild Disproportion

Hodgepodge, Mismatch, and Wild Disproportion Hodgepodge, Mismatch, and Wild Disproportion

Dueling satirical films about white-supremacist America, and how not to be an imbecile when criticizing Star Wars.

Jan 7, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

‘Gifts of Thought to Europe From an Intimate Stranger’

‘Gifts of Thought to Europe From an Intimate Stranger’ ‘Gifts of Thought to Europe From an Intimate Stranger’

A brilliant exhibit in London uses archival fragments to tell a story of violence and creation.

Jan 7, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Yasmine Seale

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