The Lady and the Dale tells the true story of Elizabeth Carmichael, an automobile executive who introduced a bold new three-wheel car in the 1970s.Courtesy of HBO The Lady and the Dale, a new HBO documentary miniseries co-directed by Nick Cammilleri and Zackary Drucker, has been promoted by the network ...

Let Me Tell You What I Mean, by Joan DidionKnopf In The Center Will Not Hold, the 2017 documentary about Joan Didion directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne, he asks what she felt when she saw a 5-year-old tripping on LSD while reporting from Haight-Ashbury for her 1967 essay, "Slouching ...

Vera Gissing, shown above at age 6, was one of 669 children from Prague whom Nicholas Winton helped save in the lead-up to World War II.Courtesy of family of Vera Gissing How old should kids be when they start learning about the Holocaust? While many educators believe the appropriate age ...

Alan Tudyk plays an alien who's not comfortable in his (human) skin in SYFY's Resident Alien.James Dittinger | SYFY Things Resident Alien has in common with previous television series like My Favorite Martian, Mork & Mindy, ALF and 3rd Rock from the Sun: 1. Main Character: An alien (or aliens). ...

loops7 | Getty Images Most of us take our voices for granted, but New Yorker writer John Colapinto got a scare several years ago when his failed him. After working every day, mostly in silence, he damaged his vocal cords while singing with a rock band in the evenings after ...

The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. BlowHarper Some time into his new book The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, Charles Blow recalls hearing Harry Belafonte give a speech. The subject was Belafonte's bailout of some student members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ...

When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller won the 2021 Newbery medal.Penguin Random House America's librarians announced their top children's book picks virtually on Monday – awarding the 2021 Newbery and Caldecott medals, among several other honors. The John Newbery Medal for the most distinguished children's book in 2020 ...

Daphne Rubin-Vega played Mimi in Rent. "It was a lot of fun to actually be able to practically apply my research of partying ..." she says. "I knew these people. I knew this world." She's pictured above with Adam Pascal in New York Theatre Workshop's 1996 production of Rent.Joan Marcus ...

Cicely Tyson says her mother did not want her to be an actress. "But in my gut, I knew there was something there that I was put here to do," Tyson says.Cooper Neill | Getty Images for MegaFest 2017 During a career spanning more than six decades, Cicely Tyson has ...

A male vermillion flycatcher perches atop an open branch on one of the many charred mesquites on our land, La Isla.Gemina Garland-Lewis Photographer and explorer, Gemina Garland-Lewis has always been drawn to nature and wildlife. Garland-Lewis takes us through her journey of growing to love bird photography alongside her partner ...