Ed Emmanuel is on a mission. The former Vietnam veteran and filmmaker told some of his story in his 2003 memoir “Soul Patrol: ...

Did you know that Western has an annual Composition Commission Competition? This year’s winner is Amara Farah, a 2025 graduate who is currently earning a master’s in orchestral conducting at Boston ...

Jack Black and Paul Rudd co-headline this frippery.

The real Don Shirley knew top musicians and faced Jim Crow dangers. See how his yearlong touring bond with Tony Lip unfolded ...

Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche teamed up in their heyday to save Los Angeles from lava in this big-budget 1997 film that defies all logic to fantastic, farcical effect.

From studio politics to personal tragedy, these actresses disappeared from the limelight for reasons beyond their control ...

Tom Hardy stars in Lawless, the 2012 Western about two bootlegging brothers in the era of the Depression.

Stand-up comedy is best live - and often lived. Judd Apatow and comedy appreciator Neil Berkeley know this. In their admiring, at times achingly funny documentary "Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford ...

As the music world prepares to descend on Los Angeles for the 2026 Grammy Awards this Sunday, memories of the ceremony's most ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

On January 26, 1907, John Millington Synge's “The Playboy of the Western World” opened at the Abbey Theater in Dublin. The production caused such a fuss that projectiles were flung at the stage in ...