Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has postponed the premiere of her new Netflix show, “With Love, Meghan,” because of the California wildfires, the streaming service said in a statement on Sunday. “With Love, Meghan,” is hosted and produced by Meghan, who cooks, gardens and landscapes with different guests in “a heartfelt tribute to the beauty … Read more
The labor union representing stagehands went on strike Sunday against New York’s Atlantic Theater Company, prompting the small but prestigious nonprofit to postpone two productions that had already begun performances and to warn that union demands could force the closing of the Atlantic and other Off Broadway nonprofits. Both the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage … Read more
“It’s after the end of the world. Don’t we know that yet?” The choreographer Angie Pittman said those words onstage Saturday, paraphrasing the Afrofuturist jazz musician Sun Ra. Pittman was performing their solo “Black Life Chord Changes” at BAM Fisher Hillman Studio in Brooklyn on a double bill with “Joan,” a Kyle Marshall quartet inspired … Read more
For decades, conservative Christians opposed to homosexuality cited the Bible scholarship of Richard B. Hays, the dean of Duke Divinity School, who provided a full-on argument from Scripture against gay relationships. “Homosexuality is one among many tragic signs that we are a broken people, alienated from God’s loving purpose,” Mr. Hays asserted in his book … Read more
She was an aspiring actor when she was cast in an Andy Warhol film called “Tub Girls.” But she was best known for the beloved Off Center Theater. Source link
DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, by Nnedi Okorafor In 2019, after Nnedi Okorafor had grown tired of being called an “afrofuturist,” she coined a new descriptor for herself on her blog: “africanfuturist.” Both terms concern the Black diaspora, Okorafor wrote, but africanfuturism is specifically rooted in Africa. “I needed to regain control of how I was … Read more
Perhaps as part of the subterfuge about her age, she often erased this chapter from her life story, preferring to identify with Oklahoma, where the family moved when she was 24, her mother died of flu and the grieving Mr. Skirvin built a grand eponymous hotel. Pearl briefly aspired to be an opera singer, which … Read more
After winning just about every major science fiction and fantasy award, Nnedi Okorafor explores a traumatic event in her own history in her most autobiographical novel yet. Source link
Sam & Dave toured in the United States, Europe and Turkey, but their drug abuse had begun to take its toll. Their downward spiral was briefly slowed when John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, as the Blues Brothers, recorded a hit version of “Soul Man” in late 1970s, bringing new attention to the original. Sam Moore … Read more
Timothée Chalamet will be both the host and musical guest on the Jan. 25 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” NBC announced on Friday, putting him in the rarefied group of performers who have been asked to play both roles on a single episode. Chalamet’s appearance, which will be his third stint as host, comes amid … Read more