She thought buying a billboard would get Tyler Perry’s attention. But he was already a fan.The Washington Post - By Lateshia BeachumThe 32-year old spent $2,000, months worth of savings, on two billboards near Tyler Perry Studios, the motion picture lot in Atlanta belonging to award-winning director Tyler Perry. The New Jersey-based
Best of Weekend TV: ‘Power’ returns to Starz with Season 6The Washington Post - By Nina ZafarSay Yes to the Dress (TLC at 9) Part bridal story and part fashion makeover with a little drama, brides visit Kleinfeld Bridal in search of their perfect gown. Hitsville: The Making of Mowtown (Showtime
‘Telling Lies’: One of the most brilliant video games of the yearThe Washington Post - By Christopher ByrdNothing I’ve played this year has felt as intimate or fully human as “Telling Lies,” the latest from Sam Barlow. According to psychologists, the vast majority of children grasp the concept of lying by
A black academic grapples with his own racismThe Washington Post - By Randall Kennedy‘How to Be an Antiracist” is a memoir by Ibram X. Kendi that details his grapplings with racism and his advice for eliminating it. Kendi is the director of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American
Surveillance, hacking, government overreach: ‘Overthrow’ tackles modern fearsThe Washington Post - By Mark Athitakis“Only connect,” the British novelist E.M. Forster prescribed in 1910. At the time, he wrote those words partly as a straightforward call for more intimate human understanding. But more than a century being
Lisbeth Salander is back — and angrier than everThe Washington Post - By Richard LipezSomebody very droll got into Stieg Larsson’s Wikipedia page. Recently, an entry on his Millennium crime series described Lisbeth Salander, the series’ popular continuing character, simply as “a woman her
A Yale professor frets about a waning aristocracyThe Washington Post - By Michael S. RothAnthony Kronman has spent most of his life at Yale University, where he was once dean of the law school and now teaches in a Great Books humanities program. He looks at his beloved campus today and sees
Courage and kindness in a small French village, a haven for refugeesThe Washington Post - By Jane EisnerThe village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon sits on a high plateau in southern France, remote and isolated, subject to brutal winter winds and yet protected by its stunning terrain. While France itself is predominantly
‘The Affair’ returns for a final season of old hurts — and a glimpse of the futureThe Washington Post - By Hank StueverSome of us remain deeply enmeshed in Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi’s intricately structured and satisfyingly grown-up Showtime drama about the endless aftershocks of what transpired between a married high
Why are women so captivated by tales of murder?The Washington Post - By Nora Caplan-BrickerIn 2007, the writer Maggie Nelson invented the term “murder mind” to describe her attraction to stories of violent death and the tendency of bloody images to stick in her brain. Today, our entire culture
In Latin America, colonialism’s violent, seemingly inescapable legacyThe Washington Post - By Tom GjeltenFive hundred years ago, before the Spanish conquista, the region we now call Latin America was home to some of the most advanced civilizations on the planet. The Aztec empire encompassed city-states of
In the galleries: An exhibition that draws attention to overlooked issuesThe Washington Post - By Mark JenkinsThe seven artists and two projects featured in Greater Reston Arts Center’s “Overlooked” may or may not be neglected, but that’s not the meaning of the show’s title. Rather, the word refers to ignored
Play button Glenstone’s connections to dance, now and on the horizonThe Washington Post - By Sarah L. KaufmanOne of the most popular exhibits at Glenstone, the sprawling contemporary art complex in Potomac, Md., is an audio video installation in which a cheerful young woman in a chiffon dress smashes car windows,
How Pia Guerra became one of the Trump era’s most moving political cartoonistsThe Washington Post - By Michael CavnaPia Guerra is one of the most poignant political cartoonists working today, yet she wasn’t even creating such art full time before President Trump. For two decades, the Canadian American cartoonist was
Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’: A track-by-track breakdown, from coded lyrics to Leonardo DiCaprio and Drake referencesThe Washington Post - By Emily YahrThe last time Taylor Swift released an album (“Reputation” in 2017) she was recovering from the biggest backlash of her career. She refused to do interviews. She wiped her social media accounts and uploaded
Friday’s best TV: ‘13 Reasons Why’ returns to Netflix for Season 3The Washington Post - By Nina ZafarMasters of Illusion (CW at 8) Featured magicians include Tetro, Bill Cook, Anna DeGuzman, Andi Gladwin, Steven Brundage and Greg Frewin. Ancient Aliens (History Channel at 9) Investigators travel the in
Can Taylor Swift really rerecord her entire music catalogue?The Washington Post - By Travis M. AndrewsSometime in the new year, Taylor Swift will belt out, “She wears short skirts/ I wear T-shirts/ She’s cheer captain/ And I’m on the bleachers.” She won’t be doing this in front of thousands of adoring
The Allies who liberated Paris, and the Nazi who saved itThe Washington Post - By Charles TrueheartWe know better than to believe that the war against Nazi Germany in Europe came to an end 75 summers ago with the Allied landings on the Normandy beaches of France. The war went on for nearly another year,
How the same actor ended up playing Charles Manson in ‘Mindhunter’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’The Washington Post - By Sonia RaoAmong the most intriguing elements of “Mindhunter” is the way it interrogates the very reason some viewers watch it in the first place. Based on the real experiences of an FBI agent who initiated the profiling
Insanity thrives, giddily, in Signature’s ‘Assassins’The Washington Post - By Peter MarksAn odd little smile crosses the face of Bobby Smith as he relates the disordered thoughts of presidential killer Charles J. Guiteau in Signature Theatre’s perversely entertaining revival of “Assassins.”
12 fancy-schmancy D.C. chefs reveal where they go for cheap comfort foodThe Washington Post - By Stephanie WilliamsOnce D.C.’s best chefs are done cooking their elegant dishes for others, what do they eat while off the clock? Most likely, they’re scarfing down a hot dog at 7-Eleven or tacos at a carryout joint. It’s
We’re buying what Kirsten Dunst is selling in ‘On Becoming a God in Central Florida’The Washington Post - By Hank StueverFriends, have I got a TV show for you. True, it has a sort of lame and unnecessarily pretentious title — “On Becoming a God in Central Florida” — but I’m here to tell you it will clean your floors, shine
Asante Blackk just graduated from high school in Maryland. He’s also an Emmy nominee for ‘When They See Us.’The Washington Post - By Mark LiebermanAsante Blackk woke up at his aunt’s Los Angeles home on July 16, the morning of this year’s Emmy nominations announcement, to a text from Ava DuVernay. The showrunner and director behind the Netflix miniseries
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Style Conversational Week 1346: Do I have to spell it out for you? OK, NP.The Washington Post - By Pat MyersSince the Royal Consort and I are starting an eight-day road trip this morning — meeting up with a half-dozen Losers at various stops along the route — I was going to skip the Conversational this week.
Revisiting the love story of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in their own wordsThe Washington Post - By Paul AlexanderAmong the love stories in American literature, one that is most enduring did not unfold in a novel but in real life. In 1918, Lt. F. Scott Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre, the 18-year-old daughter of a judge,
Style Invitational Week 1346: AZ if — balancing actsThe Washington Post - By Pat Myers(Click here to skip down to the winning abbreviation combos) B-Y: Bolshy: A Russian ballet company whose dancers suffer from stage fright. (Bob Staake) S-H: Suckotash: A dish of corn, lima beans and tofu.
14 things to do in the D.C. area this weekendThe Washington PostFarruko at Wolf Trap: Perhaps no one has had a better vantage point for the recent crossover of Latin and Caribbean music into the worldwide mainstream than Farruko. The 28-year-old Puerto Rican singer-songwriter-rapper
What to watch on TV tonight: ‘The Flay List’ premieres on Food NetworkThe Washington Post - By Nina ZafarThe Outpost (CW at 8) Tobin has to face a cousin he hates. Gwynn then makes Tobin an offer he can’t refuse. Big Brother (CBS at 9) After the group established veto power, one of the houseguests is evicted.
