'Stronger Than Ever' Sundance Docs Tackle Scientology, Campus Rape
Critic Kenneth Turan says Going Clear and The Hunting Ground are among the films that "blew people away" at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
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Triad Jewish Film Festival Celebrates 14th Season
The Triad Jewish Film Festival, now in its 14th season, brings together international film buffs with an interest in Jewish culture.
When Pop Broke Up With Jazz
For the first half of the 20th century, Tin Pan Alley songwriters like Irving Berlin and the Gershwins dominated pop music. By the the 1950s, tastes had changed, and the music changed with them.
Sundance A Lab For Changing Models In Film, TV
Audie Cornish speaks with film reporter Steve Zeitchik of the Los Angeles Times about the trends, breakouts and mood at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Intended For Millennials, Dish's Sling TV Is A Cord Cutter's Dream
Dish Network soon debuts its Sling TV streaming service, with a small group of cable channels for $20 a month. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans tried it and says Sling TV is a welcome challenge to cable.
For A Taste Of Grimdark, Visit The 'Land Fit For Heroes'
Richard K. Morgan's epic sword-and-planet (and alien technology) Land Fit for Heroes series is a good introduction to grimdark, a subgenre that aims to show the gritty underside of fantasy fiction.
These 13 'Almost Famous Women' Stirred Up Trouble, Or Trouble Found Them
Megan Mayhew Bergman's stories about historical women are littered with bad-girl paraphernalia, like smashed-up motorcycles and morphine needles. In this collection, their lives are richly imagined.
'Ghettoside' Explores Why Murders Are Invisible In Los Angeles
In her new book, journalist Jill Leovy studies the epidemic of unsolved murders in African-American neighborhoods and the relationships between police and victims' relatives, witnesses and suspects.
In 'Fatherland,' A Daughter Outlines Her Dad's Radicalization
Falling in love with your handsome pen pal, moving overseas to marry him, then finding out he's part of a terrorist organization: That's the Bunjevac family story, told in a new graphic memoir.
Two Outcasts Form An Artistic Bond In 'Mr. Mac And Me'
Painter's daughter Esther Freud weaves her own experiences into the story of a lonely little boy in a British seacoast town, who befriends the great Art Nouveau designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh.