When Louis C.K. said he’d grossed more than $1 million off his self-released, $5 stand-up special, “Live at the Beacon Theater,” the question wasn’t “Would others fo...

Growing older and still loving punk rock aren’t mutually exclusive conditions. But at some point, the admiration usually shifts to listening in the privacy of your home or o...

The heroines of Brit chick-lit goddess Sophie Kinsella overbuy at Barneys, suffer from spates of amnesia and are forever messing up at work. Yet this doesn’t keep them from ...

Reese Witherspoon, why do you do this to me? I do not understand. I mean, I get that you have a mortgage and some kids, and that everyone likes money, but you seem to have for...

Dear Friends of the Giant Fiberglass Pineapple Overlooking I-95: Stop writing us letters! We would love to write 270 words about your fruit, only we haven’t the time. But yo...

“Just a few lines to tell you that my seven year old son Manning couldn’t get over your picture Number Nine,” begins a 1949 letter to Jackson Pollock, America’s best-l...

“Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance,” opening Friday, is a sequel no one wanted. It’s hard to believe, but there was a time when Nicolas Cage starred in movies that didn't...

How do you make Shakespeare more accessible to modern audiences? Lose the tights. That’s the strategy used in “Coriolanus,” opening Friday. Ralph Fiennes directed, adapt...

In 2007, playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo, then 21, set out to write something explaining the mindset of his generation. What he came up with was “Really Really,” currently ...

Brian Stokes Mitchell does not sleep. That’s the only explanation for how he can do all he does, which currently includes filming “Glee” (he’s one of Rachel’s dads),...

The legendary Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington played his first gig nearly a century ago at U Street’s True Reformer hall, across the street from where Ben’s Chili Bowl...

Ancient Egyptians were devoted to the idea of an afterlife. So, it’s symbolically appropriate that the National Museum of Natural History’s “Eternal Life in Ancient Egyp...

When 15-year-old Eddie Joseph joined the Black Panthers in 1968, he expected to receive a gun and orders to start the revolution. Martin Luther King Jr. had recently been assa...

After a brief hiatus, “The Walking Dead” returned over the weekend with the second half of Season 2 (AMC, Sundays at 9 p.m.) and a promise from the new show runner to “a...

Watching “Key and Peele,” Comedy Central’s latest attempt to replicate the success of “Chappelle’s Show,” I couldn’t help but think about how long it’s been si...