She Calls Her Movies 'Afro Bubble Gum Art'
Wanuri Kahiu doesn't want to make films about suffering Africans. Her movies celebrate happiness — with a sci-fi twist.
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'Obit' Follows The 'Times' Team Charged With Turning Lives Into History
A documentarian spent six days filming The New York Times obit desk at work. One staffer describes the process of writing an obituary as "equal parts exhilaration and terror."
Not My Job: We Quiz A Retired CIA Analyst On Briefs (The Underwear)
John Nixon has done both briefing and debriefing, so we'll see what he knows about underwear briefs. The former CIA analyst, who interrogated Saddam Hussein, is the author of Debriefing the President.
Reading The Game: Stardew Valley
Our occasional series on storytelling in video games travels to Pelican Town to explore the bucolic pleasures of Stardew Valley, a farming simulator inspired by the classic 1990s Harvest Moon games.
Is Facebook Real Life Or Is It Just Fantasy?
Dear Sugar Radio is a podcast offering "radical empathy" and advice for the lost, lonely and heartsick. Today the hosts hear from a woman in an "emotional affair" with a college friend on Facebook.
'Indecent': A Play About A Play
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel is using a controversial Yiddish play more than a hundred years old as the basis for her first Broadway production.
Art Is A Matter Of Life And Death In 'The Electric Sublime'
W. Maxwell Prince's bloody, silly and deeply likeable new graphic novel imagines a world where works of art are real spaces you can step into — with real problems that can cause hundreds of deaths.
A Haunting '60s Film About Mental Illness And Incarceration Becomes A Ballet
Frederick Wiseman's controversial 1967 documentary Titicut Follies exposed conditions at Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts. Fifty years later, the filmmaker, now 87, has adapted it to dance.
Fyre Festival Fiasco: Luxury Music Experience Turns Into Vacation Nightmare
Attendees to the Fyre Festival in the Bahamas were promised a luxury music festival experience. Instead they found themselves in a vacation nightmare.
'Obit' Documentary Follows Journalists Who Tell Lively Stories Of Death
NPR movie critic Bob Mondello reviews Obit, a documentary about obituary writing at The New York Times.