Triad Stage Tops Fundrasing Goal
The Greensboro-based theater company Triad Stage has regained its financial footing after successfully meeting a $500,000 fundraising goal.
Arts
Collards And Canoodling: How Helen Gurley Brown Promoted Premarital Cooking
The legendary Cosmo editor, subject of two new biographies, knew sex sells – and food brings in ad money. She cannily combined them with features like "After Bed, What? (a light snack for an encore)."
'Sunlight Pilgrims' Is More Than Just A Chilling Tale Of Climate Change
Jenni Fagan's latest follows a transgender girl and her mother in a near-future world that's slowly freezing to death. Fagan makes potent but subtle links between climate change and personal change.
Netflix, HBO, PBS And More Bring Their Upcoming Shows To Critics
It's about time again for the Television Critics Association to meet in California, and we have a preview of the week to come.
'Ghost' Soprano Marni Nixon, Who Voiced Blockbuster Musicals, Dies At 86
You might not know Marni Nixon's name, but you've probably heard her. Nixon dubbed the voices for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, Natalie Wood in West Side Story and Deborah Kerr in The King and I.
No Longer Omar: Actor Michael K. Williams On Lucky Breaks And Letting Go
Over the course of his career, Williams says he's learned to separate himself from his characters (like The Wire's Omar). In HBO's The Night Of, he plays a powerful prison inmate named Freddy.
#FoodPorn, Circa 1600s: Then And Now, It Was More About Status Than Appetite
A new study of old masters finds that capturing and showing off decadent and expensive meals is a decidedly old-fashioned practice. Like today's Instagrammers, it was all about projecting an image.
If War Is Hell, Then Coffee Has Offered U.S. Soldiers Some Salvation
"Nobody can soldier without coffee," a Union cavalryman wrote in 1865. Hidden Kitchens looks at three American wars through the lens of coffee: the Civil War, Vietnam and Afghanistan.
John Grisham To Headline Bookmarks Festival
Best-selling author John Grisham will be a keynote speaker at Bookmarks annual Festival of Books and Authors in September.
'Lights Out': A Scary Swedish Short Spawns A Summer Hit
A self-taught filmmaker and his wife made the terrifying film in just one evening, using IKEA lights and a homemade dolly. The 2 1/2 minute short has now been adapted for the big screen.