German-American director Till Schauder spent five years following Kevin Sheppard, 33, a former American college basketball player who went to Iran to play as a journeyman athlete. The result, the documentary The Iran Job, is …
Ben Affleck’s Argo: Can a Fake Movie Save Real Lives?
This fact-inspired story of an audacious caper during the Iran hostage crisis has all the makings of an Oscar winner, but that doesn’t mean it’s a great film
David Quammen Talks Life on the Front Lines of Virology
Back in 2003, a new virus that would be called SARS jumped from a bat to a civet cat to human beings, eventually infecting thousands and killing nearly 800 people. That’s just one example of the threat that animal microbes can …
National Book Awards: Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers, Robert Caro Among Finalists
The 20 finalists for the 2012 National Book Awards were named this morning by David Steinberger, chairman of the board of the National Book Foundation. The winners in each of the four categories (fiction, nonfiction, poetry and …
Tig Notaro Live: The Best Medicine
This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene.
There are few people who deserve the term “badass” as much as Tig …
Dancing with the Stars Watch: Two Went Home
The deadly double elimination takes two victims and neither of them was a member of Karmin
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TV Tonight: Nashville
Remember when everyone knew that musicals did not work on TV? An age ago—three, maybe four years—it was common knowledge that TV audiences would reject dramas in which people burst into song as hopelessly implausible or …
Why It’s Time to Take ‘Rock’ Out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
As this year’s Hall of Fame nominees illustrate, maybe it should be called the Rock, Pop, Funk, Soul, Disco, Blues, Punk, Metal, Hip-Hop and Electronic Hall of Fame
The Walking Dead Behind-the-Scenes Battle That Almost Doubled the Zombie Count
‘The Walking Dead’ returns this weekend—on the heels of a recent legal battle between the series’ creators that could have ended with a second, completely separate, TV show
Charles Schulz’s Peanuts Gang Headed to the Big Screen
You’re a good man, Charlie Brown. Who cares if you can’t kick a football? You’re going to be a movie star!
Louis CK Delays Louie Season 4 Until 2014
Comedian Louis CK, mastermind behind the FX show Louie, announced today that the series—the third season of which ended last month—would not return to television in mid-2013 as planned. Instead, having requested “more time to …
Secret Lincoln Screening Generates Big Buzz
The Lincoln biopic from Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the President, got a surprise premiere last night at the New York Film Festival. The film’s stars came out for the event, according to the New York …
Ellie Goulding’s Halcyon is Catchy Catharsis
This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene.
On a recent drive to Traverse City, MI, I heard Ellie Goulding’s
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