Non-alcoholic beers are finally good (and they’re not just for Dry January)
Craft beer’s emphasis on strong flavors has reinvented non-alcoholic beer, bringing better choices than ever to people who want new options.
The collision of old and new money is on glitzy display in HBO’s ‘Gilded Age’
Set in New York City the early 1880s, this ten-part costume drama is basically an American Downtown Abbey, complete with rich and poor, power brokers...
Remembering André Leon Talley, a titan of the fashion world
The former creative director at Vogue magazine and larger-than-life fashion influencer died Jan. 18. Talley spoke to Fresh Air in 2018 about growing up in...
With ‘The Legend of Vox Machina,’ a Dungeons & Dragons web series rolls the dice
Just the Vox, ma’am: This animated fantasy series loses some of what makes the web series it’s based on so richly rewarding, but those coming...
‘Joan Is Okay,’ explores the meaning of home, having roots
By exploring the spectrum of commitment in this book, and in her debut novel Chemistry, Weike Wang has shown us myriad ways to build a...
Emmy-winning comedian Louie Anderson has died at 68
The Emmy-award winning actor, stand-up comic, and TV host died Friday in Las Vegas, after complications from cancer, according to his publicist.
Dave Eggers: How Can Kids Learn Human Skills in a Tech-Dominated World?
Fiction can serve as a window into multiple realities–to imagine different futures or understand our own past. This hour, author Dave Eggers talks tech, education,...
22 tips for 2022: You don’t need an intense workout. Small moves make a difference
Making exercise a daily habit can feel daunting if it feels like it counts only when you go all in. Instead, remember that every small...
Meat Loaf, Grammy-winning singer famous for ‘I’d Do Anything For Love,’ dies at 74
Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday, was best known for Bat Out Of Hell, one of the best selling albums of all time.
Brazilian samba singer Elza Soares dies at 91
Soares “moved the world with her voice, her strength and her determination,” her family’s announcement said, “forever … in our hearts and the thousands of...
Strangers on a train share a bumpy ride in the Finnish film ‘Compartment No. 6’
At times, Juho Kuosmanen’s film plays like a scruffier, less romantic version of Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise. There’s tension to every scene, a sense that...
A preview of this year’s (virtual) Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday. Festival goers can expect Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut, a docuseries about comedian Bill Cosby and a number of films...
Five questions that need answers in the final ‘Ozark’ season
Netflix’s popular crime series is about to drop the first half of its last season. We look at five questions that hang over these seven...