Entertainment
Join the circus
When I was in third grade, my best friend’s parents took me to the Big Apple Circus in Manchester, N.H. At the time, it was like nothing I had ever seen — all spectacle and showmanship, full of the sheer elation of putting on a show just for the sake of putting on a ...
Do-it-yourself album
After Page Hamilton broke up his band, Helmet, in 1998, he thought not only might he never bring back Helmet, he might even set aside his signature instrument...
Elizabeth Taylor, legendary actress, dies at 79 of congestive heart failure
LOS ANGELES — Elizabeth Taylor...
Jennifer Beals is doing what she can to hold on to...
CHICAGO — The place Jennifer Beals...
Blues musician Pinetop Perkins, oldest Grammy winner, dies at 97
CHICAGO — Pinetop Perkins lived the blues...
Producer of ‘Deadliest Catch’ and ‘Ice Road Truckers’ tackles coal mining
PASADENA, Calif. — They were a pride of real American men, executing manly work under deplorable conditions. And nobody ever noticed them. But Thom Beers did...
Is Netflix building a ‘House of Cards’ in original programming?
LOS ANGELES — Netflix's growth strategy may be built on a house of cards, literally...
Corporate fate
David Norris (Matt Damon) is a young go-getter New York politician who has a chance encounter with the quirky, engaging Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt), a ballerina who captures his attention immediately. Strange forces are at work and Norris is assaulted and wakes up in ...
Finding beauty in everything
Born in 1928 in Pittsburgh as the third child of immigrant parents, Andy Warhol suffered through his childhood as an outcast and a hypochondriac. It seemed unlikely then that this often bed-ridden child would one day rise to fame as one of the leading figures of the ...
Keep on truckin’
When the Drive-By Truckers went into the studio to make a record a couple years ago, the songs came out fast and furious. Make that a lot of songs came quickly, very quickly...
