Pop Culture Happy Hour, Redux: 'This Is Us' And 'Speechless'
Listen to two of our favorite segments from last year, featuring two of our favorite fourth chairs (Ari Shapiro and Audie Cornish), about two of our favorite shows.
Arts
Joe Ide: Creating A Complicated Hero From the Hood
Joe Ide and his brothers hung out almost exclusively with the neighborhood kids in South Los Angeles. Years later, the city's old haunts and characters worked their way into his books.
In 'Wonder Valley,' There's More Than One Los Angeles
Ivy Pochoda's latest was informed by creative writing classes she teaches on L.A.'s Skid Row. "My L.A. experience, it was a little bit different, and I think the book sort of reflects that," she says.
Multiple Women Say Louis C.K. Masturbated In Front Of Them, 'New York Times' Reports
Two comedians say the famed comic invited them both to a hotel room and stripped naked, to their shock. Others say he asked to masturbate before them, or seemed to do so while on the phone with them.
Latest 'Murder On The Orient Express' Is A Classic Whydoit
Critic Ella Taylor says Kenneth Branagh's wildly unnecessary retread of the Agatha Christie tale is "fatally tepid."
Mourning Becomes Electrifying In 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'
In this, Irish filmmaker Martin McDonagh's third and best feature, the director has "finally begun to grapple with the violence of American life in a way that doesn't feel like the work of a tourist."
In 'Mayhem,' Office Workers Try To Get Ahead In Business Without Really Dying
A virus causes a law firm to descend into bloodsport in this B-movie splatterfest starring The Walking Dead's Steven Yuen.
A Young Woman Gains Independence — And More — In 'Thelma'
Norwegian director Joachim Trier's mercurial tale of a college student who develops frightening abilities once she leaves her strict family descends into standard scary-movie tropes.
A Rare Find: Trailblazing Female Designer's Unpublished Family Cookbook
Magazine art director Cipe Pineles helped pave the way for creative women in publishing. She also illustrated her mother's Eastern European recipes, but for 70 years the manuscript lay undiscovered.
For November, A Romance Trio For 'Hamilton' Fans (And The Rest Of You, Too)
Even if you haven't seen the musical, you can keep warm this November with a delightful trio of novellas set in and around the battalion commanded by Alexander Hamilton at the siege of Yorktown.