Best places to eat and drink Coachella Weekend 2
[ad_1] While attempting to catch a breeze in Isabel and Helen’s “Take Flight” art installation with interconnected windmills during the first (scorching) weekend of Coachella, a mysterious purple structure caught my eye. As I approached it, I noticed the yellow Takis logo in the corner. Figuring that the enclosed space was at the very least […]
Brian Austin Green ditches his appendix just in time
[ad_1] Brian Austin Green just got really lucky. Now he’s really grateful. Last week, the former “Beverly Hills, 90210” star found himself experiencing pain in his abdomen — pain bad enough that he headed out looking for medical help. “I started feeling some pain in my stomach,” he said in a video posted early Monday […]
‘The Legend of Ochi’ uses puppetry to bring a fantasy to life
[ad_1] Hidden in the thick forest of the fictional island of Carpathia lives the Ochi, an orange-furred primate that communicates through distinct whistling sounds — a song, if you will. Though these wondrous creatures don’t actually exist, they were very much alive and tangible on the set of A24’s “The Legend of Ochi,” filmmaker Isaiah […]
Mario Vargas Llosa, last of ‘El Boom’ novelists, dies at 89
[ad_1] Mario Vargas Llosa became a writer out of love. He also became a writer out of spite. There was his early passion for literature, which led him, as a boy, to spend hours poring over adventure novels by Alexandre Dumas and Jules Verne. And there was the bristling antipathy he felt toward his authoritarian […]
The best books of the last 30 years: Honorable mentions
[ad_1] There are those who write well, and there are those who write well and often. These prolific literary giants have all published work worthy of inclusion on our list of the greatest novels since 1996, but their fecundity perhaps made it difficult for voters to narrow it down to just one book. Margaret Atwood […]
‘Government Cheese’ stays outside the box with a surreal Black family
[ad_1] When Paul Hunter started shopping around his script for an autobiographical movie called “Government Cheese,” about a Black family living a surreal life in the San Fernando Valley during the late 1960s, he kept getting variations on the same rejection: We don’t know any Black people like this. These aren’t Black characters that we’ve […]
Mehdi Hasan reflects on Zeteo, his media startup, a year after launch
[ad_1] Journalism isn’t what it used to be, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Especially if you’re Mehdi Hasan. Hasan, 45, is no stranger to the rising dissatisfaction around the state of the news media and the confusion over how we consume our news. He rose through the ranks of broadcast giants, including the […]
The 30 best nonfiction books of the last 30 years
[ad_1] Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn’t is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ritual continuing to shape, and be shaped by, the books we love (and love to argue over). So, after […]
‘The Fact Checker’ review: Narrator follows his muse, not the truth
[ad_1] Book Review The Fact Checker By Austin KelleyAtlantic Monthly Press: 256 pages, $27If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The cover of Austin Kelley’s debut novel, “The Fact Checker,” will be immediately recognizable to a certain type of person: Ah, […]
Inside Cave Canem, the ‘centrifugal force’ in American letters
[ad_1] In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d attended the Assn. of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Denver that year and felt like he was the only Black poet in attendance. “I wasn’t,” he assures me, all these decades later. “But it felt that way. […]