Arts

Beatrice Mancini, Stefano Abbati and Margherita Buy in Mia Madre.

Arts

'Mia Madre' Weaves Memory, Fantasy And Film Into A Poignant Rumination On Loss

5:00pm August 25, 2016

by Mark Jenkins

Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti's latest is a charming, heartfelt and slyly satirical meditation on cinema — which exists at the crossroads of fantasy and reality — and the loss of a parent.

Alice (Rachel Weisz) revisits her past in Complete Unknown.

Arts

Opaque Storytelling Leaves Rachel Weisz's Character A 'Complete Unknown'

5:00pm August 25, 2016

by Ella Taylor

Weisz plays a woman who's spent her life creating new identities, but the filmmakers leave her motivations, and her character, frustratingly unmoored and unclear.

Sugar Ray Leonard (Usher Raymond) and Roberto Durán (Edgar Ramírez) duke it out in Hands of Stone.

Arts

'Hands Of Stone,' Fists Of Ham: Roberto Durán Biopic Telegraphs Every Punch

5:00pm August 25, 2016

by Scott Tobias

A strong performance by Édgar Ramírez as the Panamanian boxer can't save a film that suffers from a lack of focus and thin characterization.

Books
Arts

'The Couple Next Door' Ratchets Up Parenting Paranoia

3:45pm August 25, 2016

by Bethanne Patrick

Shari Lapena's novel about a couple whose baby daughter goes missing while they're at a dinner party next door strikes at the heart of parenting fears — but falls down as a police procedural.

Behold the assembled contestants of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, Season 2.

Arts

What To Watch For When Watching 'RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'

3:31pm August 25, 2016

by Glen Weldon

The search for America's Next Drag Superstar(TM) continues, as the drag competition returns for a second All-Star season on Thursday. We humbly offer a guide for the perplexed.

Members of the National Museum Building Committee stand in an unfinished doorway of the U.S. National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, in 1880. (From left: Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, Peter Parker, Spencer Fullert

Arts

Belle Of The Mall: Saving Smithsonian's Jewel-Like Arts And Industries Building

3:09pm August 25, 2016

by Elizabeth Blair

With its spires, rotunda and colorful facade, the Arts and Industries Building is a festive relief compared with its neighbors. But restoring the Smithsonian's first museum hasn't been easy.

Models wear creations by Rykiel during Paris Fashion Week in 2004.

Arts

Sonia Rykiel, Designer Known As The 'Queen Of Knitwear,' Dies

2:04pm August 25, 2016

by Elizabeth Blair

The famously redheaded Rykiel embodied the intellectual chic and feminism of Paris in the late 1960s. With vibrant stripes or simple black, her clothes hugged a woman's body.

Harry Shum, Jr. is one of the stars of YouTube's Single By 30.

Arts

The Old-Fashioned Romantic Comedy Pops Up On YouTube With 'Single By 30'

11:18am August 25, 2016

by Linda Holmes

It may be a recent arrival in original TV content, but YouTube has rolled out a pleasantly traditional romcom about friends who may or may not (oh, come on) fall in love.

Arts

Bonjour, Barbie! An American Icon Packs Her Heels And Heads To France

10:50am August 25, 2016

by Susan Stamberg

Some 700 Barbie dolls are visiting Paris this summer. They span almost six decades of pretty, plastic history, including Malibu Barbie, astronaut Barbie, and, of course, Royal Canadian Mountie Barbie.

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Books
Arts

Texas Bookseller Picks 3 Summer Reads

6:23pm August 24, 2016

Julia Green of Front Street Books recommends Moonlight on Linoleum by Terry Helwig, City of Women by David R. Gillham and The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly.

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