Entertainment
‘The Paper’ parodies work at a struggling newspaper
Peacock attempted to recapture the magic of The Office in The Paper, a spin-off series set at a local newspaper. The mockumentary follows the travails of the Toledo Truth Teller, a once-thriving paper that now shares an…
Earth’ is a prequel to the 1979 movie
The 1979 movie Alien was part deep-space monster movie, part dystopian extrapolation of the era's economic concerns. The movie's main antagonist was a chest-bursting alien with acid for blood, but an all-powerful…
Trump’s China tariffs will likely drive up toy prices this Christmas
Santa Claus might be able to evade customs checkpoints as he magically smuggles toys into the country for the good boys and girls—but everyone else doing Christmas shopping this year could run into some problems. Thanks to…
Frank S. Meyer and the history of fusionism
With The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer, Daniel J. Flynn has produced a biography valuable to both political novices and serious students of the conservative movement. Laymen will gain from…
Jerry Garcia biography explores counterculture history
Former Los Angeles Times man Jim Newton, in his book Here Beside the Rising Tide, picked a representative subject through which to judge the achievements and excesses of the 1960s counterculture: Grateful Dead guitarist and…
New Carole King biography is the first dedicated solely to the music legend
The Shirelles, an all-black girl group out of New Jersey, had just cracked the Top 40 in September 1960 and needed a follow-up hit. Don Kirshner, impresario of a songwriting factory in Manhattan's Brill Building, gave…
Smithsonian’s ‘Futures in Space’ exhibit is oddly backward-looking
The jewel of the new "Futures in Space" exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is a Blue Origin New Shepard crew capsule. Visitors who come to the museum to be in the presence…
YouTube TV’s dispute with Disney has gone on too long
Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Be kind to your water bottles this week, lest they end up hitting an innocent bystander. Ten million people haven't had access to ESPN and the rest of Disney's…
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ is a Netflix musical about harmony
KPop Demon Hunters, a Netflix original movie released worldwide on June 20, quickly became the most-watched movie on the platform, amassing over 314 million views by mid-September. It also earned much popular praise and…
Russell Lee’s portraits of poverty in coal country
The best antidote for politicized nostalgia that hails an imagined idyllic yesteryear full of abundant blue-collar jobs? Taking a good, hard look at how those workers actually lived. "Power & Light," a temporary…
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