When J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek” came out in 2009, the canon-rocking news was the romance between Spock (Zachary Quinto) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana). Shippers of Spockura (Spur...

“Star Trek Into Darkness” will be analyzed in obsessive detail by those who love it and will join the pantheon of movies about which writers must avoid making even the tee...

Lucian Perkins was a summer intern at the Washington Post in 1979 when he snapped a set of black-and-white photos at punk shows around the District. He’d stay at the paper f...

We are blitzed by media and entertainment from so many sources and angles that being truly wowed seems like a quaint idea, maybe nearly impossible. But a bit over a century ag...

Lucian Perkins was a summer intern at the Washington Post in 1979 when he snapped a set of black-and-white photos at punk shows around the District. He’d stay at the paper f...

Sheila E. combined glamour and drumsticks decades before Meg White. If the name Sheila E. is new to you, great! You’ve got a hot new favorite song to YouTube ahead of her sh...

I’ve spent seven years and 184 episodes waiting for the moment “How I Met Your Mother” has been building to. Every year, there are episodes that end with a montage of he...

There’s a little old lady partial to cardigans who has earned a place in rock history. Her stuff goes for hundreds of dollars on eBay. She retired two weeks ago, and Los Lob...

When I teach film, I often use clips from Baz Luhrmann movies as examples of formal techniques — montage, say, or framing. His use of the structure of filmmaking to communic...

Telling a story in verse is difficult, especially when the story’s as funny, rambling and conceptually complex as Voltaire’s “Candide,” the French satirical novel publ...

In “The Great Gatsby,” out Friday, Carey Mulligan plays the impeccably bobbed Daisy. You too could look like her if you had diamond headbands and hours to spend with a fla...

It’s hard to believe that just four years ago, Sweetgreen’s Sweetlife festival was basically a Dupont Circle block party. Now, the homegrown restaurant’s music-and-food ...

Bela Fleck makes what Mumford & Sons do to the banjo sound criminal. The 54-year-old doesn’t just play the instrument for old-timey flair; he’s always pushing it in ne...

In a TV world where everyone wants to push the envelope, HBO is amping it down. “Family Tree” (Sun., 10:30 p.m.) is a gentle and effortlessly charming mockumentary from Ch...

Country crossover star Taylor Swift has carved out a niche penning maddeningly infectious songs about approximately a zillion relationships, most of them unrequited or over. G...