Jon and his ill-fated search party make their way beyond the wall toward the great unknown. Tormund Giantsbane muses about how to survive in the wild tundra, his former domain, and tells Jon not to make the mistakes the former King Beyond The Wall Mance Rayder made because of his pride. Jon also...
The children of Johnny Cash are asking white supremacists and other hate groups not to wear or use the country singer's name or image. In a Wednesday night Facebook post shared by Cash's daughter Rosanne and son John Carter Cash, the siblings say they were "sickened" to learn a self-proclaimed...
Less than a year ago, Liris Crosse was ready to walk away from her career as a plus-sized model. She had paid her dues working in New York City for more than a decade and was tired of being rejected for her size and color —especially in recent years. She was considering a change. “I felt as though...
The Aaron Aardvark Visionary Art Museum? Rebecca Hoffberger is offering up the naming rights to the institution she founded — now known as the American Visionary Art Museum — in exchange for $25 million that would among other things shore up the endowment. But Hoffberger hopes that whoever takes...
When he died on April 1, 1917, in a New York hospital from complications of syphilis, Scott Joplin was not yet 50. Financial troubles and artistic disappointments — especially over his inability to drum up interest in his opera, “Treemonisha” — marked the composer’s last years. A counterbalance...
Come October, there will be a lot more room in Baltimore to be funny. The Baltimore Improv Group (BIG), bringing unscripted laughs to Charm City since 2004, will be moving from the intimate confines of Howard Street’s Single Carrot Theatre, where their performance space had a capacity of about...
After Yu Na Han went through two miscarriages, and then her new baby spent the first six months of her life in the hospital, the mother found comfort when she needed it the most from the place she least expected to find it — in the writings of the 16th-century theologian Martin Luther. Though he’d...
After stumbling out of “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” an insanely violent live-action cartoon starring Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds, I found myself asking the kind of question the critic is occasionally forced to ponder after too many years steeped in Hollywood movies. No, not, “Why didn’t I...
Slick, smart, impeccably executed, "Logan Lucky" is a highbrow heist movie involving some lowbrow folks. If it verges on being a little too pleased with itself for its own good, that's an acceptable price to pay for something that makes you smile. More an entertainment than a laugh-out-loud comedy,...
"Wind River," written and directed by Taylor Sheridan and starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, is something special. At times poetic, at others bleak and brutal — and how could it be otherwise, with rape and murder at the heart of its plot — this tense, convincing independent film is the...
“Menashe” marks the feature debut of documentary-trained director Joshua Z. Weinstein, who shot his movie, partially under wraps across a two-year period, in the Hasidim community of Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Borough Park district. The film’s in Yiddish and some English, with English subtitles. Weinstein,...