A few years ago, JoJo Siwa emerged as a tween wonder on the reality show “Dance Moms,” known for her brassy one-liners, rapid-fire pirouettes and rainbow-hued ensembles topped with huge hair bows. Today, Siwa, 18, is about to return to dance reality TV — as a budding queer idol. After
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Review: In ‘The Last of the Love Letters,’ Passion Is Inescapable
What exactly those ambitions are was not always clear to me. Playing a woman called only “Her” in the script, Anyanwu delivers a furious comic diatribe to an absent lover she’s apparently ambivalent about leaving. There’s no question she’s angry about how he has bent her into the image he
A Writer Reckons With the Fact That ‘People Love Dead Jews’
Horn’s view is that Anne’s words are inspirational exactly because her perspective is not only incomplete but also false. We take the easy way out rather than plumbing the depths of evil. We look for universal lessons in lieu of attending to the actual persecution of Jews. Horn wants us
Tell Us What You Love About the Outdoors for Our Black History Series
How do you find purpose, joy and peace in the great outdoors? Our series, Black History, Continued, is exploring these questions. In a virtual event on Sept. 19, we will celebrate the multifaceted perspectives of discovery and wonder outside, and shatter stereotypes about how Black nature lovers experience the outdoors.
David Grossman’s New Novel Is a Multigenerational Saga of Love and Loss
And so we are introduced to a multigenerational saga fraught with geopolitical brutality and familial trauma, featuring a vivid and formidable 90-year-old matriarch named Vera, with a “Ben-Gurion-like domineering tone” and “a bladder like the late president Hafez Assad’s.” This “little woman with the sharp green eyes” presides over the
Book Review: ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,’ by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
The historic ground of Georgia is where we meet the hero of “Love Songs,” Ailey Pearl Garfield. As a young Black woman in the late 20th century, Ailey feels that sense of double consciousness, not only as Du Bois imagined it in regard to race but also in terms of
Modern Love Season 2: An Interview with Andrew Rannells
Shields, eyeglasses. I’m sure all of that made directing and acting harder, but did it also create unexpected opportunities? I think the biggest one is rather than shooting in Manhattan, we shot in Schenectady, N.Y., because it was easier to control. And the directors of other episodes went up there
Studying to Love Solitude (and Hate Oatmeal) on a 15,534-Mile Canadian Trek
In 2015, the unbiased Canadian filmmaker Dianne Whelan set out on what’s now generally known as the Trans Canada Path, an almost 17,000-mile leisure path that spans inexperienced paths, roads and waterways from the Atlantic to the Pacific and north to the Arctic Ocean. On Aug. 1, within the firm
Chuck E. Weiss, Musician Who, in Love, Impressed a Hit Music, Dies at 76
Chuck E. Weiss, blues musician, membership proprietor and outsize Los Angeles character who was immortalized in Rickie Lee Jones’s breakout hit track, “Chuck E.’s in Love,” died on July 20 at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 76. His brother, Byron, stated the trigger was kidney failure. Mr. Weiss