Culture

I had no business enjoying Twisters as much as I did.  For one, I’m not a fan of disaster movies. Nor do I have a relationship to the original 1996...

Ellina is a journalism master’s student from Russia. In Russia, it has become increasingly impossible to protest without risk of being arrested or put in prison. But people still do...

Bette Midler is known as the “Divine Miss M,” but she was named for another Hollywood legend. Midler says she was named after Bette Davis — but the two-time Oscar...

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Clarity when I am writing. What is your greatest fear? Collapse of the imagination. If you could choose what to come back as,...

John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, has died. He was 90. A...

It’s nice to know that people are thinking of you when you are sick. But as any invalid will know, there comes a point when the endless well-wishes can become...

WARSAW — Donald Tusk is facing his most severe political setback since becoming Polish prime minister as he hits a brick wall on one of his biggest campaign promises: Increasing...

The year is 2023. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who played VP Selina Meyer on the 2010s HBO comedy series Veep, visits the White House to meet President Joe Biden and Vice President...

Actor Wayne Brady knows his family unit is unlike any other on television. His blended family includes his ex-wife, best friend and business partner, Mandie Taketa; their 21-year-old daughter, Maile...

For a very long time in American politics, the primary question of presidential candidate likability was voters asking themselves, “Could I have a beer with them?” But over the course...