‘SNL’ And ‘Second City’ Announce Scholarships For Diverse, Emerging Comic Talent
A new scholarship sponsored by SNL covers the costs of training at Second City for comedians starting out in their careers.
Remembering Neil Sheehan, Vietnam War Correspondent Who Revealed The Pentagon Papers
Sheehan, who died Jan. 7, broke the story of the Pentagon Papers and wrote A Bright Shining Lie, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Vietnam...
Remembering Screenwriter William Link, Co-Creator Of ‘Columbo,’ ‘Murder She Wrote’
Link, who died Dec. 27, worked with Richard Levinson to write classic TV shows, as well as groundbreaking TV movies about social issues. Originally broadcast...
‘WandaVision’ Is A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery — Disguised As A TV Show
Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany star as a witch and an android in the newest entry in Disney’s Marvel universe. WandaVision is framed like a...
Remembering Michael Apted, Creator Of The ‘Up’ Documentary Series
The documentarian, who died Jan. 7, spent decades following the lives of a group of British citizens, updating their stories with a new episode every...
Caro Verbeek: What Can The Scents Of The Past Tell Us About Our History?
Each day, we breathe about 22,000 times–and all that time we smell. Scent historian Caro Verbeek recreates scents of the past. She says, just like...
‘Drug Use For Grown-Ups’ Serves As An Argument For Personal Choice
Dr. Carl Hart’s positions on drug use and availability may seem quite extreme to some — but are thoughtful and data-driven. He asserts that racism...
‘WandaVision’: The Next Era Of The MCU Will Be Televised
The latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been downsized to fit the television screen — and pay loving, sharply observed homage to TV...
The Clouds And Downpours Of ‘Summerwater’ Set The Scene For Human Drama
Sarah Moss’s new novel takes place over a single, unrelentingly rainy day at a vacation site in Scotland, where families complain about each other and...
Wendell Pierce On Parenting, The Pandemic And Reckoning With The Past
Pierce stars alongside Charlie Robinson in a new online production of Some Old Black Man. It’s “the classic confrontation of father and son,” says Pierce.
‘MLK/FBI’ Humanizes A Civil Rights Icon’s Legacy
Sam Pollard’s documentary deftly examines the FBI’s intense surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. in the final years of his life.