Elton John attends the photocall for the movie "Rocketman" during the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2019 in Cannes, France. Pascal Le Segretain | Getty Images President Joe Biden will host musician Elton John for a performance on the South Lawn of the White House Friday for ...

Musician Nick Cave (from left), artist Thomas Houseago and with actor Brad Pitt pose prior to the opening of their joint exhibition, in Tampere, Finland, on Saturday. Jussi Koivunen | Sara Hilden Art Museum, Lehtikuva via AP HELSINKI — Hollywood's Brad Pitt and Australian musician Nick Cave have debuted as ...

Daniel Wood As a child I made yearly sojourns to my grandparents' home in Oakland, Calif. Next door, in the middle of chest-high weeds, sat a lush grapefruit tree. The property was vacant; ivy climbed the walls, the windows gathered dust and grime. But the grapefruit tree sat in the ...

The Divider is the latest in what has become a procession of books about the Trump presidency, but there are reasons to think it arrives right on time. Even after several Cabinet-level advisers, family members and former staff at various levels have unloaded their recollections, and after some of the ...

Series co-creator Sterlin Harjo attends the series premiere of Reservation Dogs in Hollywood, Calif., Aug. 5, 2021. Valerie Macon | AFP via Getty Images Reservations Dogs co-creator and showrunner Sterlin Harjo says he grew up surrounded by the "best storytellers in the world." Harjo remembers sitting in his grandmother's kitchen ...

The Bluest Eye, The Hate U Give and Queer, There and Everywhere are among the books that have faced bans around the country. Meghan Collins Sullivan | NPR Throughout the 2021-22 school year, more than 1,600 book titles were banned, according to a new report by the group PEN America, ...

Social media comedian Jonathan Chavez tells NPR he's ready to reveal move past his Mexican Mom character. He wants to world to know the real him. Grace Widyatmadja | NPR Jonathan Chavez is at a crossroads. The social media comedian just turned 23, he's nursing a broken heart, he's searching ...

(Clockwise from top left) Seth Gilliam in The Walking Dead, Letitia Wright in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Brice Gonzalez and George Lopez in Lopez vs. Lopez, Susan Sarandon in Monarch, Harry Styles and Florence Pugh in Don't Worry Darling and Dwayne Johnson in Black Adam Jace Downs/AMC, Marvel Studios, Casey ...

Carlos Villarías and Lupita Tovar starred in the 1931 Spanish language version of Dracula. Mike Gallegos for NPR In 1931, Universal Studios shot its classic horror film Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi as the bloodsucking count from Transylvania. But after production wrapped for the day, an entirely new cast and crew ...

Splatoon players readying for ink-splatting mayhem. Nintendo When Nintendo launched Splatoon in 2015, it catapulted the ink-splatting game into an environment rife with hostile players and graphic violence. Here was another online shooter, but one seemingly meant for children, with a cartoonish look and what amounts to ink-filled water guns ...