“Christmas creep” pushes artists to release Christmas albums in October—at least they’re good
“It’s all red and gold / and Nat King Cole / and tinsel on the tree,” croons Kacey Musgraves in…
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Mark McMorris blurs the line between poetry and visual art in “The Book of Landings”
Poet and Georgetown University professor Mark McMorris has been writing poetry for over two decades now, and it shows. His latest work,…
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“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” has Burtonesque beauty… and not much else
Walking out of the theater after seeing Tim Burton’s “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” I felt conflicted. On the…
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IBM’s Watson creates first AI-produced movie trailer
An IBM supercomputer named Watson was commissioned by Fox to make a trailer for their new film “Morgan,” which came…
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Viewers want television writers to bury minority death tropes
This article contains spoilers for several current television shows. On April 8, “Sleepy Hollow” killed off Abbie Mills, portrayed by…
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Disney’s ‘Zootopia’ tries to discuss systems of oppression, only partially succeeds
In an early scene from Disney’s “Zootopia,” rabbit protagonist Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) looks up at a police…
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Widespread support for Kesha emerges after recent court ruling
A New York judge’s ruling last month to deny recording artist Kesha Rose Sebert (called Kesha or Ke$ha by her…
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