Pop Culture

Bob Odenkirk plays the ethically flexible lawyer Jimmy McGill on the AMC series Better Call Saul.

Arts

'Better Call Saul' Launches Its 3rd Season, Still The Best Drama Series On TV

1:26pm April 10, 2017

by David Bianculli

The Breaking Bad spinoff returns Monday, telling more of the origin story of lawyer Jimmy McGill (aka Saul Goodman). Critic David Bianculli says the series "more than stands on its own."

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Throughout his career, Prince played around with constructions of race, gender and sexuality.

Prince Contained Multitudes, New Book Confirms

10:31am April 10, 2017

by Leah Donnella

Prince on defining his music: "The only thing I could think of, because I really don't like categories, but the only thing I could think of is inspirational."

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Co-creators of the Fox series Shots Fired, Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Rock Bythewood, speak at a press tour in January.

Arts

'Shots Fired' Creators Want To 'Challenge Your Perspective' On Police Shootings

1:51pm April 09, 2017

by Michel Martin

Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Rock Bythewood are the husband-wife screenwriting duo behind the Fox TV series that imagines the fallout of a flipped script: a black cop shoots an unarmed white man.

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Superstar Rogelio De La Vega (Camil) meets his daughter, Jane, for the first time in the show's first season.

Arts

Actor Jaime Camil On How 'Jane The Virgin' Humanizes Its Telenovela Characters

8:02am April 09, 2017

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Camil plays Jane's telenovela star father, Rogelio De La Vega. He says the show's storylines may be ridiculous, but every character comes from a sincere place.

A scene from the 1990s Sci-Fi film Timecop, featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme (left).

Science

It Sounds Like Science Fiction But ... It's A Cliché

7:51am April 09, 2017

by Geoff Brumfiel

The Internet is full of science fiction becoming science fact. NPR Science Editor Geoff Brumfiel is ready to make a stand. Sort of.

In Bioshock Infinite, a simple premise — a guy, a girl, a gun — animates a mind-bending story.

Books
Arts

Reading The Game: Bioshock Infinite

7:00am April 09, 2017

by Jason Sheehan

It's a simple premise — a guy, a girl, a gun and a debt to repay — but in Bioshock Infinite it becomes a mind-bending story about politics, oppression, change and sacrifice. Set in a flying city.

Detail of cover of America #2, by Gabby Rivera and Joe Quinones, starring America Chavez, Marvel's lesbian Latina superhero.

Books
Arts

Beyond The Pale (Male): Marvel, Diversity And A Changing Comics Readership

8:06am April 08, 2017

by Glen Weldon

Comments about diversity in superhero comics made last week by a Marvel executive unleashed an online firestorm. But heroes who look more like the growing comics readership are here to stay.