They entered the NFL with great fanfare and lofty expectations of one day ranking among the best collections of talent the NFL had seen at their position. But just three years later, the 2021 quarterback draft class instead largely looks like one great big bust. While NFL teams continue their
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Steven Izzo’s Story Has a Fairy Tale Ending. He Wants to Know How It Started.
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Steven Izzo sat in his locker, aw-shucksing the high point of his adult life, playing a familiar part. The first basket of his five-year career on his father’s Michigan State basketball team was an act of comedic defiance. The gall of this move. Against a Rutgers
In This Heroes’ Tale, Real People Risk Their Lives to Get to Europe
At the end of “Io Capitano” (“I Captain”), Matteo Garrone’s harrowing contender for best international film at next month’s Academy Awards, a map tracks the journey taken by the film’s two teenage protagonists: over 3,500 miles from Dakar, Senegal, to Sicily, via the scorching Nigerien desert, horrific Libyan prisons and
‘Jelly’s Last Jam’ Returns, Bringing a Jazz Tale to a New Generation
The team behind the Encores! revival of “Jelly’s Last Jam” is not looking to reinvent George C. Wolfe’s ambitious 1992 Broadway show. But they do hope that this rendition, opening on Wednesday at New York City Center, will introduce the musical to a new generation. Taking that idea a step
Review: In ‘The Apiary,’ the Bees Have a Troubling Tale to Tell
Here’s a pitch you haven’t heard before. It’s 2046. Bees in the wild have succumbed to a planet-wide die-off, taking almonds, avocados and honey down with them. But in a subterranean lab, three women doing “palliative care” with four remaining broods make a hopeful if gruesome discovery. Also, it’s a
Young Filmmaker Lives His ‘Fairy Tale’ at Sundance
“I feel like I’m in a fairy tale,” Sean Wang said to the sold-out crowd gathered at the Ray Theater in Park City, Utah, last month for his Sundance Film Festival debut. Mr. Wang, a 29-year-old filmmaker, was dressed in a black suit and white Vans (a nod to his
‘Household Saints’ at IFC Center: An Italian American Tale
Nancy Savoca’s 1993 film “Household Saints,” a warmhearted fable spiced with magic realism and zesty performances, may be the most endearing of multigenerational Italian American family sagas and is likely the most mystical. Heavy on folk belief, it flirts with Bresson’s “Diary of a Country Priest” and the divine madness
Michigan’s Title Is a Tale of Two Narratives
HOUSTON — There are two stories to tell about this Michigan team, and they’re really the same. One is the story of a program that bent the rules, a coach who got suspended, a university that went to war with its conference, and a championship many will view with disdain.
In a tale of two protests, a stark divide among young voters on the Israel-Hamas war
Anti-war activists protest outside of the White House during a pro-Palestinian demonstration asking for a cease-fire in Gaza in Washington on Nov. 4. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP Anti-war activists protest outside of the White House during a pro-Palestinian demonstration asking for a cease-fire in
‘Mary Gets Hers’ Review: A Spiky Update of a Medieval Tale
Disco balls were nowhere in evidence in 10th-century Germany, but it somehow makes sense when one materializes toward the end of Emma Horwitz’s “Mary Gets Hers” — a spiky and adventurous retelling of the medieval devotional play “Abraham, or the Rise and Repentance of Mary.” That’s because Mary (Haley Wong)