Arts & Life

Milicent Patrick poses in the Universal Studios monster shop with her most famous creation: the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Books
Arts

The Forgotten Woman Who Designed The Creature From The Black Lagoon

5:05pm March 28, 2019

by Mandalit del Barco

A new book by Mallory O'Meara explores the life of artist Milicent Patrick, who worked on Fantasia and costumed a legendary Hollywood monster — and then ran afoul of misogyny in the workplace.

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Mary Kay Place is a flinty New Englander with a grown son she can't help but help, in Diane.

Arts

In The Bleakly Beautiful 'Diane,' Mary Kay Place Can't Help But Keep Helping

5:00pm March 28, 2019

by Ella Taylor

The debut feature of documentary filmmaker Kent Jones paints a loving but clear-eyed portrait of an older woman (Mary Kay Place) enabling her grown, addict son (Jake Lacy).

Tim Burton's Dumbo re-imagines the 1942 animated Disney classic.

Arts

'Dumbo': Elephants Never Forget, But Audiences Will

5:00pm March 28, 2019

by Chris Klimek

Tim Burton's take on the classic Disney animated feature does what it sets out to do in a kid-friendly, safe and unsurprising way devoid of the director's onetime idiosyncratic flair.

Blaze of Glory: Moondog (Matthew McConaughey) is a stoner/poet shambling through South Florida in Harmony Korine's The Beach Bum.

Arts

Like A Rolling Stoner: Burnout Comedy 'The Beach Bum' Is A Balm

5:00pm March 28, 2019

by Kyle Turner

In writer/director Harmony Korine's latest, Matthew McConaughey plays a South Florida stoner/poet. It's a meandering, ecstatic, and ultimately "brilliant embrace of body, pleasure and art."

Lori Gottlieb writes about her experiences as a psychotherapist in therapy in her new book, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.

A Psychotherapist Goes To Therapy — And Gets A Taste Of Her Own Medicine

4:51pm March 28, 2019

by Terry Gross

Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist who started seeing a therapist herself after the man she thought she would marry unexpectedly broke up with her. Her new book is Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.

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Ruth Wilson plays her own grandmother in Mrs. Wilson, a three-part series about a woman unraveling the secrets of her late husband.

Arts

'Mrs. Wilson' Asks: Just How Well Do We Know The People We Love?

11:29am March 28, 2019

by John Powers

Ruth Wilson stars in the PBS drama based on the story of her own grandmother, who discovered, after 22 years of marriage, that her spy-turned-author husband may have been married to someone else.

Books
Arts

'Now, Now, Louison' Attempts To Bring Art, And Its Artist, To Life

10:48am March 28, 2019

by Martha Anne Toll

Writer and gallery owner Jean Frémon inhabits artist Louise Bourgeois as if she herself were writing this novel-cum-memoir, opening up our understanding of both the artist and her art.

Jussie Smollett leaves a Chicago courthouse Tuesday, shortly after prosecutors dropped all charges against him. The move was met with anger from local authorities and confusion from plenty of onlookers.

Making Sense Of The Smollett Legal Drama: What's Going On Here?

8:15pm March 27, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

Fair warning: There are questions we just can't answer at this point. But there are also plenty we can. Here's an attempt to explain the charges against the Empire actor — and the move to drop them.

Henry, a border collie with the Canadian Avalanche Rescue Dog Association, flies with his handler over ski slopes in the Canadian Rockies. He is one of six dogs profiled in the IMAX film Superpower Dogs.

Arts

It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's ... A Dog Dangling From A Helicopter?!

7:36pm March 27, 2019

by Ailsa Chang

The IMAX film Superpower Dogs follows six remarkable canines who work in fields such as avalanche and water rescue, endangered species protection, and emotional support.

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Chicago's top prosecutor, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, recused herself from the investigation before Empire actor Jussie Smollett was charged.

'We Cannot Be Driven By Emotions': Top Chicago Prosecutor Defends Smollett Decision

6:27pm March 27, 2019

In an interview with WBEZ, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx explains why her office suddenly dropped charges against the actor.