A look back at the life of influential rapper Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys
Adam Yauch, MCA of the Beastie Boys, Dies After Cancer Complications
One of the founding members of the heavily influential rap group died three years after his first cancer diagnosis
Auma Obama on Her Famous Brother, Their Instant Connection and Her New Memoir
She was born in Kenya; he was born in Hawaii. They could have easily spent their lives never crossing paths. But they had a major tie: they shared the same father. Barack Obama and Auma Obama, his older half-sister (by one year) …
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TV Weekend: The Return of Sherlock
How is it possible that a show based on a set of stories that began in the 19th century could be the freshest detective show on television? Sherlock, the British rethinking of Sherlock Holmes, managed that in 2010 with crisp …
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Check In, You Won’t Want to Leave
The combined forces of British acting talent is practically superhuman; like The Avengers for the senior set
Clued In: The Top 10 Television Detectives
With Season 2 of the BBC’s Sherlock premiering on Sunday, TIME looks back at TV’s Watson-worthy sleuths
Cat Cora on Around the World in 80 Plates and Cooking Tom Colicchio Under the Table
Bravo’s latest cooking competition, Around the World in 80 Plates (premiering May 9), is like Top Chef meets Amazing Race meets Survivor, “except better than all three combined,” says host Cat Cora. Here, the Iron Chef America …
TIME Spends the Weekend with John Irving, Literary Legend
This spring, I was lucky enough to spend a few days with John Irving. He’s a man who needs no introduction. His weighty novels—The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Cider House Rules—are commonly and …
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The Morning After: American Idol Vs. The Voice
This is the first year in a while I haven’t been doing weekly writeups of the American Idol performance shows, pretty opportune timing for me because the show has reached a level of padding I thought impossible even for it, the …
Edvard Munch’s The Scream Sells for a Record $120 Million at Auction
Edvard Munch’s iconic painting, The Scream, sets a record for most expensive piece of art ever auctioned.
The Avengers‘ Clark Gregg on Wrangling Superheroes in Spandex
When veteran actor Clark Gregg was cast as Agent Phil Coulson in the first Iron Man film, he was thrilled to help bring one of his favorite childhood comics to the big screen. As Tony Stark was tearing his way through bad guys, …
First Position: A Documentary That Stays On Point
In her sweetly soft-shoe directorial debut, documentarian Bess Kargman paints a portrait of ambitious young dancers in a highly competitive world
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Mad Men Character Study: The Education of Sally Draper
Is it possible that Sally Draper is the secret protagonist of Mad Men?