To tell the story of Katharine Graham, who led The Washington Post during a pivotal period for the paper and the nation, the sibling filmmakers George and Teddy Kunhardt use a standard approach, interweaving archival material with talking-head interviews. The result is a conventional documentary, and by all means an admiring one. But her story … Read more
“$10,000 reward given for returned painting,” it read. The company’s directors, Ian Peck and Terence Doran, responded with a $30 million lawsuit in September in which they accused Ms. Mugrabi of engaging in “an unlawful campaign of intimidation and falsely and maliciously defaming them.” In an affidavit, Mr. Peck said their company was forced to … Read more
Onstage at Smoke in late January, the all-star septet the Cookers were surging into high gear. The catalyst: their drummer, Billy Hart, who stirred up rhythmic eddies and punched out stinging cymbal accents while fixing the saxophonist Azar Lawrence with an eager, heat-of-battle grin. On “Just,” a new album by Hart’s own long-running quartet, out … Read more
There’s a lot to be said for a chilly book, which can be suitably evocative in the dead of winter. But with much of the United States trudging through seemingly endless weeks of gray skies and frigid temperatures, with only faint glimmers of relief in sight, sometimes you just need an escape. As you wait … Read more
FEW ARTISTS ARE as closely associated with Lower Manhattan as Jack Whitten, the subject of a major retrospective opening this month at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In 1962, as a student at Cooper Union, he became one of the first artists to settle below Canal Street, at an address on the corner of … Read more
Since 1982, the pair (and occasionally their brother Mario) have published their own comics, and, save for a few short stories, Jaime’s have always focused on the people of Hoppers, a barrio in a California town called Huerta. It’s not exactly the brothers’ native Oxnard, but it’s not exactly not Oxnard, either.
I can’t swear to it, but I have a suspicion that Woody Harrelson signed on to star in the deep-sea adventure “Last Breath” only when assured he wouldn’t have to submerge so much as a toenail in water. As Duncan Allcock, the leader of a three-man dive team on a perilous North Sea mission, Harrelson … Read more
I’m not sure how much attention to ascribe to this, but given that Zoe is Greek for “life,” the title of “My Dead Friend Zoe” feels a bit wry. Directed by Kyle Hausmann-Stokes from a screenplay he wrote with A.J. Bermudez, it’s a competently performed drama about an Army veteran named Merit (Sonequa Martin-Green) who … Read more
When Ione Skye was in middle school in the early 1980s, a group of popular, mean girls she calls “the Aprils” brought her — shy, bookish, not yet famous — into their intimidating fold. She was surprised they even knew her name. “Part of me wanted to punch the girls’ smug faces,” she writes in … Read more
Ninety pounds, the approximate weight of a Farfisa organ, nearly kept Benmont Tench from his destiny. It was late 1971, and Tench, a native of Gainesville, Fla., was home from college for Christmas. His favorite local band, Mudcrutch, was playing a five-set-a-night residency at a topless bar called Dub’s, and they’d finally invited him to … Read more