Arts & Life

A person holds a copy of the mini-zine they made to document their experience during the coronavirus crisis.

Arts

#Quaranzine Round-Up: A Look At Pandemic Life Through The Pages Of Your Mini-Zines

5:02am July 18, 2020

A few months ago, Life Kit shared instructions on how to make a #quaranzine — a mini-zine documenting life during the pandemic. You followed those instructions — these are some of our favorites!

Arts

Mo'Nique's Netflix Discrimination Case Moves Forward

4:34pm July 17, 2020

by Elizabeth Blair

A judge says the Oscar-winning actress's discrimination and retaliation suit against Netflix can move forward.

Fire officials walk past the Ghost Ship warehouse following the deadly 2016 fire in Oakland.

Ghost Ship Fire Victims To Receive $32.7 Million Settlement From City Of Oakland

2:12pm July 17, 2020

by Andrew Limbong

The deadly fire at the warehouse-turned-arts space killed 36 people.

Ghost of Tsushima gives players a gorgeous world to explore, but the game's story is dragged down by flat characters.

Arts

Saving The World — But First, A Haiku — In 'Ghost Of Tsushima'

2:00pm July 17, 2020

by Kaity Kline

Sucker Punch's new samurai combat game gives players a gorgeous open world to explore, haikus to write and enemies to defeat — but the characters can be flat, leading to moments of dull gameplay.

Arts

Cat, Sheep, Or Human?

12:43pm July 17, 2020

In a special audio version of "This, That, or The Other," Late Night with Seth Meyers writers Jenny Hagel and Amber Ruffin guess if a noise is coming from a cat, a sheep, or a human baby.

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Arts

The Longest Quiz

12:43pm July 17, 2020

Jenny Hagel and Amber Ruffin work together in a short game about some of the world's longest things.

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Arts

We Started Turning Other Billy Joel Songs Into We Didn't Start The Fire

12:43pm July 17, 2020

Country singer-songwriter Margo Price and Jeremy Ivey, her guitarist husband join house musician Jonathan Coulton in a game where other Billy Joel songs are rewritten to be about 20th century events.

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Arts

Padma Lakshmi: Taste the Nation, From Your Couch

12:43pm July 17, 2020

Padma Lakshmi, host of Top Chef discusses the evolution of the American palate. Then, she plays a game where she helps Ophira and Jonathan figure out what to do with the weird foods in their pantries.

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Books
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'Sex And Lies' Author Leila Slimani: 'Women's Lives Matter'

9:45pm July 16, 2020

by Sarah McCammon

Franco-Moroccan writer Leila Slimani's new book examines the restricted sex lives of women in a country where, she says, the unofficial motto is "Do what you wish, but never talk about it."

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In the early 1900s, educator Booker T. Washington and Sears Roebuck president Julius Rosenwald built schools across the South for African American students. May's Lick Rosenwald School, in Maysville, Ky., was built in 1921, and it has received one of 27 p

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27 Grants Awarded To African American History Sites; Funder Aims To 'Scale Up'

8:49pm July 16, 2020

by Elizabeth Blair

The National Historic Trust's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund gave out $1.6 million in grants to sites that tell American history "through the lens of Black humanity and identity."