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Photo OMB Peezy is in the lineup of rappers at the Studio at Webster Hall. Credit Keith Welch A small show at the Studio at Webster Hall on Monday, July 17, features a great lineup of rap music that nods to aesthetics from everywhere but New York. OMB Peezy, from …
Read More »‘Presenting Princess Shaw’: From Unknown Singer to YouTube Star
Photo Samantha Montgomery, a.k.a. Princess Shaw, the subject of a documentary from Ido Haar. Credit Ido Haar/Atzmor Productions A great thing about YouTube is that you never know where creativity will come from or what form it’s going to take. The PBS series “POV” offers proof on Monday, July 17, …
Read More »With Grant Money, a Choreographer Restakes Her Claim
Ms. LeCrone, who has been making dances since 2006 — for companies including Oregon Ballet Theater, Colorado Ballet and her own Emery LeCrone Dance — eventually accepted the offer. On Tuesday her company opens the third edition of the Ballet Festival, which runs through July 29. Financially, this time is …
Read More »Quentin Tarantino Exploring New Movie on Manson Family
Photo Quentin Tarantino in January. The Oscar-winning writer and director is in the early stages of a new and as-yet-untitled project about the Manson family murders. Credit Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images Quentin Tarantino, known for his graphic and violent films, is reportedly tackling a real-life crime for his next project: a …
Read More »Donald Trump Jr.’s Choice of a Lawyer Raises Eyebrows on Late Night
Photo Conan O’Brien pointed out that Donald Trump Jr. just hired a lawyer with a history of representing defendants accused of high-level organized crime. Credit TBS Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you …
Read More »Christopher Nolan’s Latest Time-Bending Feat? ‘Dunkirk’
Mr. Nolan’s film is about the astounding rescue of 338,000 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk, France, in 1940. Hemmed in by German forces, the Allies were trapped as German aircraft strafed and bombed the sands, with the only way out across the English Channel. Shallow waters prevented British …
Read More »Review: ‘I Am the Blues’ Visits the Music’s Home Turf
Photo Bobby Rush, right, in “I Am the Blues.” Credit Film Movement In “I Am the Blues,” the documentarian Daniel Cross spends part of three years driving the cracked back roads of Louisiana and Mississippi to some of the last enclaves of the Delta blues, finding the heart of this …
Read More »What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘I’m Sorry’ and the Return of ‘Suits’
Photo From left, Judy Greer, Tom Everett Scott and Andrea Savage in “I’m Sorry.” Credit Erica Parise/truTV The comedian Andrea Savage goes bawdy and blue as a version of herself in the new series “I’m Sorry,” backed by an army of her funny friends, onscreen and off. And everyone seems …
Read More »The Unfinished Work of Alan Lomax’s Global Jukebox
“The idea was that young people of the world were losing interest in their own traditions, and that had a lot to do with TV and the radio,” Dr. Grauer said. “It was an overwhelming project. All the recordings in his archive needed to be digitized.” Continue reading the main …
Read More »Review: Thinking Outside (and Inside) B.F. Skinner’s Box
This structure does indeed stand in for the boxes used by the behaviorist B. F. Skinner, wherein food was systematically proffered and denied to rats. But as the show progresses, the box becomes a suggestive multitude of other things. Photo Stephen Harper, center, in “Opening Skinner’s Box,” based on Lauren …
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