Arts

Nothing's Gonna Tear Them Apart, Lisa: Greg (Dave Franco) and Tommy (James Franco) wait for the lights to go down in The Disaster Artist.

Arts

'The Disaster Artist' Is 'The Room' Where It Happened

5:00pm November 30, 2017

by Scott Tobias

Director/star James Franco fondly — and hilariously — chronicles the making of the cult-movie fiasco The Room, evincing a deep understanding of the unhinged ambition at its core. (Go figure.)

Kate Winslet as Ginny, a 1950s waitress on the verge of spinning out, in Wonder Wheel.

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Woodyland In Bad Decline: 'Wonder Wheel'

5:00pm November 30, 2017

by Andrew Lapin

Woody Allen's film about an unhappily married woman in 1950s Coney Island strains to evoke Eugene O'Neill. Critic Andrew Lapin says Wonder Wheel "isn't merely a bad movie but a laughable one."

Sherwan Haji as Khaled, a young Syrian refugee in Helsinki.

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'The Other Side Of Hope': Finding Haven — And Hamachi — in Helsinki

5:00pm November 30, 2017

by Mark Jenkins

Finnish writer/director Ali Kaurismaki follows up his 2011 film The Havre with a darker, but still comic, variation on a similar theme — a character fleeing bloody conflict gets taken in by a group of outcasts.

Jim Nabors, in a 1964 episode of Gomer, U.S.M.C., getting chewed out by Frank Sutton as Gunnery Sgt. Vince Carter.

Jim Nabors, Who Played Affable Klutz Gomer Pyle, Dies At 87

2:46pm November 30, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

The actor and singer starred as Pyle for years — first in The Andy Griffith Show, then in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Nabors parlayed the stardom of the beloved goof into a long career on stage, TV and film.

Jonathan Bethony bakes his whole grain breads in a wood-fired oven, heated to about 500 degrees, to help the weighty loaves rise.

'The Hardest Bakery Possible': Reinventing The Meaning Of 'Whole Grain'

1:19pm November 30, 2017

by Whitney Pipkin

A handful of bakeries are pushing the envelope of what's possible — and palatable — by leaving the bran and germ in freshly milled grains from local farmers, who also help drive the menu.

The nominees for the first-ever Aspen Words Literary Prize have been announced.

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First-Ever Aspen Words Literary Prize Unveils Its List Of Nominees

12:51pm November 30, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

The annual prize, in its inaugural year, will be awarded to one work of fiction. For the next few months, 20 books remain in contention — including works by Jesmyn Ward, Roxane Gay and Lisa Ko.

Cellos are lined up backstage at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra before a Nov. 8 rehearsal of Schubert's Ninth Symphony. The CITES Rosewood regulations have made some musicians apprehensive about taking instruments containing the wood across international

The Tree That Rocked The Music Industry

12:10pm November 30, 2017

by Robert Benincasa

This year, new international regulations on rosewood have reverberated through the music industry, costing tens of millions in lost sales and extra administrative costs.

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'I Am Not Okay With This' by Charles Forsman

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Teen Angst Has A Body Count In 'I Am Not Okay With This'

7:00am November 30, 2017

by Etelka Lehoczky

Sydney, the teenage protagonist of Charles Forsman's new graphic novel, has all the usual problems of her age, plus one: She's telekinetic. And it quickly becomes clear that her story is a grim one.

A museum worker carries a 19th century painting by Polish artist Robert Sliwinski during a ceremony Wednesday in Warsaw, Poland. The work was looted by the Nazis during World War II and recently recovered in the U.S. by the FBI.

Painting Stolen By The Nazis Is Returned To Poland

8:14pm November 29, 2017

by Rebecca Feldhaus Adams

The FBI got a tip from the Polish government and recovered the painting in a town near Philadelphia. Representatives from the U.S. and Polish governments unveiled it in Warsaw.

The first black British royal? Not so fast.

The Meaning Of Meghan: 'Black' And 'Royal' No Longer An Oxymoron In Britain

6:21pm November 29, 2017

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Whether or not she cares, princess-to-be Meghan Markle has become a symbol of biracial people's coming-of-age, and maybe of the country's collective adulthood on race, writes Karen Grigsby Bates.