October 2021

Mourning My Profession

It seems wildly counterproductive for producers to hamstring potential reviewers with lists of conditions and expectations

by Elizabeth Zimmer

October 29, 2021

The Many Giants of Black Baseball

In 1921, the Subway Series may not have been the best game in town

by Jonathan Ezra Goldman

October 28, 2021

Video: Iconic Rao’s Celebrates 125 Years with Sunday Gravy

“What came first more than anything was sharing in the exuberance of life—people, song, dance, good food—in an environment with no pretenses.”

by Michele Stueven

October 28, 2021

Dr. Lonnie Smith Wove the Funk for Seven Decades

The Hammond organ virtuoso left our world last month, but his spirit lives on wherever there’s a groove

October 28, 2021

Brand Partner Content

How Dr. William Soliman Built His Success From the Bottom Up

by Written in Partnership with Amir Bakian

October 28, 2021

The Met’s Kerry James Marshall Retrospective Shines a Light on Racism

Form is always in service to Marshall's determination to put that which has been invisible for most of Western art history – black bodies – on view.

October 25, 2021

56 Years Later, Frank Herbert Finally Gets His Du(n)e

“The editor of the Village Voice has been calling me and asking me if I have seen ‘Star Wars’ and if I’m going to sue,” Frank Herbert told his local newspaper.

by Vincent Velotta

October 22, 2021

ROCKSTAR EXPERIENCE

Tom Morello Is a Real Life Guitar Hero

October 22, 2021

Tragicomic Soothsayer: Philip Guston Rides Again

The painter envisioned America as a soaring ideal eternally threatened by a nail-studded club

October 22, 2021

Doughnuts For A Cause – Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey And Dough Doughnuts Partner Up To Support The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation

October 21, 2021