Arts

The Mirror Has Two Faces: Taki finds himself in the body of Mitsuha in writer/director Makoto Shinkai's Your Name.

Arts

'Your Name' Goes There: Teens Switch Bodies In Charming, Dreamlike Romance

5:00pm April 06, 2017

by Ella Taylor

Critic Ella Taylor says this quirky love story "shimmers with the magic of a fairy tale" yet "has its feet firmly planted on the ground of Japan's past and present."

Where There's Smoke, There's Kaiju: Gloria (Anne Hathaway) and Oscar (Jason Sudeikis) look pensive in Colossal.

Arts

Anne Hathaway As A 'Colossal' Trainwreck Who Wreaks Monster-Movie Havoc

5:00pm April 06, 2017

by Mark Jenkins

A binge-drinking American woman unwittingly controls a monster that's destroying Seoul in this tone-deaf comedy; the film's lumbering attempts to subvert our rom-com expectations fall flat.

I'm Going To Call Your Parents: Willie (Morgan Freeman), Joe (Michael Caine) and Albert (Alan Arkin) get caught red-handed in Going in Style.

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'Going In Style' Is A Disappointingly Feeble Caper Comedy

5:00pm April 06, 2017

by Scott Tobias

This remake of a wry 1979 comedy about three retirees risking it all for a big score ditches the original's sense of urgency to focus instead on subplots and sentiment.

Books
Arts

Howard Norman's 'My Darling Detective' Pays Homage To Film Noir

4:30pm April 06, 2017

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with writer Howard Norman about his new novel, My Darling Detective, which tells the story of a photograph and an auction in Halifax, Novia Scotia.

A drawing completed by both Ed Koren and Alison Bechdel, the second and third cartoonist laureates of Vermont, respectively. In the image, Koren presents laurels and a large pen to Bechdel.

For A Small State, Vermont Sure Has A Lot Of Speech Bubbles

4:23pm April 06, 2017

by Cecilia Mazanec

Vermont is the only state that consistently appoints cartoonist laureates as a ceremonial position that promotes the art of cartooning.

Don Rickles was jokingly known as "The Sultan of Insult."

Arts

Comedian Don Rickles, Merciless 'Merchant Of Venom,' Dies At 90

3:43pm April 06, 2017

The famed insult comic and showbiz veteran worked well into his 80s. In his prime, Hollywood elites like his friend Frank Sinatra considered it an honor to be roasted by Rickles.

Arts
News

For UNCG Opera The Show Goes On After Fire Strikes

3:35pm April 06, 2017

by David Ford

Earlier this week, a local production of a tragic opera nearly took a tragic turn when a UNCG Opera rehearsal ended abruptly due to fire.

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Talvin Singh at the rehearsal for the "Cleveland Watkiss at 50" concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall on Nov. 19, 2009 during the London Jazz Festival.

A Look Back As The Asian Underground Turns 20

2:25pm April 06, 2017

by Adwait Patil

This new sound became "trendy" in Great Britain. The mainstream media lapped it, and Billboard declared "British Asian Scene on Brink of Mainstream," as it tried to normalize the movement.

Valeria Luiselli's previous books include Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth.

Books
Arts

'Tell Me How It Ends' Offers A Moving, Humane Portrait Of Child Migrants

12:07pm April 06, 2017

by John Powers

Valeria Luiselli's new book is based on her experiences working as an interpreter for Central American child migrants seeking entry to the U.S. Critic John Powers calls it "fair minded and expansive."

Ex-Secretary Of State Advocates Causes Not Key In Modern Republican Agenda

10:58am April 06, 2017

James Baker, who served in two Republican White Houses, is writing about causes that don't figure prominently in the modern Republican agenda. He's advocating a global ban on the sale of ivory.

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