Arts
Meshell Ndegeocello: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
by Lauren Onkey NPR Music’s Tiny Desk series will celebrate Black History Month by featuring four weeks of Tiny Desk (home) concerts and playlists by Black artists spanning different genres and generations each week. The lineup includes both emerging and established artists who will be performing a Tiny Desk concert for the first time. This →
Director Shaka King’s Journey From ‘Newlyweeds’ To ‘The Black Messiah’
by Andrew Limbong As the current chairman of the Black Panther Party Cubs, Fred Hampton, Jr. was guarded →
Justin Timberlake Hopes ‘Palmer’ Will ‘Open Eyes, And Open Ears, And Open Hearts’
by Scott Simon In the new film Palmer, Justin Timberlake plays Eddie, a former high school football star who comes back to his Louisiana hometown after more than a decade in prison. As he pieces together his new life, Eddie moves in with his grandmother and befriends her young neighbor, a boy named Sam. Sam is funny →
Learning To Love Bird Photography, Thanks To A ‘Competitive Collaboration’
by Gemina Garland-Lewis Photographer and explorer, Gemina Garland-Lewis has always been drawn to nature and wildlife. Garland-Lewis takes →
Polish Thriller ‘Spoor’ Is A Pulpy Murder Story — And A Utopian Fable
by John Powers During the Cold War, the movies we saw from the Eastern bloc were steeped in →
Glimmers Of Hope: A 2021 Poetry Preview, Part 1
by Phillip B. Williams, Ana Bozicevic, Evie Shockley, Ken Chen, and Craig Morgan Teicher It’s been a sobering →