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State of the Union: The professional wrestler visibly energized the audience. “USA! USA! USA!” the crowd chanted as Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, a professional wrestler, took the stage Thursday at the Republican National Convention to endorse Donald…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story After a gunman attacked Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, the first pieces of media to emerge were striking photographs of Trump, with blood trickling down his…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a recent Sunday afternoon, I visited the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which occupies a gleaming Renzo Piano building on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, in Los…

Trump is right about Clooney’s talents. Credit: THIERRY ORBAN/Sygma via Getty Images After George Clooney commandeered the op-ed section of the New York Times to counsel President Joe Biden to depart the presidential race, it was only a matter of…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story To borrow a bit of social-media parlance, “Twisters,” the new disaster movie from the director Lee Isaac Chung, understands the assignment. The movie, which is set in Oklahoma during peak storm…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1998, a salt-and-pepper-haired occasional actor named Guillermo Zapata opened the restaurant SUR on a quiet block of Robertson Boulevard in West Hollywood. Serving dishes from Zapata’s home country of Argentina,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2015, Josh Sisk, a freelance photographer in Baltimore, picked up a new Fujifilm X100S digital camera for thirteen hundred dollars. He wanted to use it on vacations and road trips,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of the privileges and pleasures of working as a film critic is that people occasionally send me movies that aren’t yet available in the U.S. Some of them are very…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In September, 2016, when the Smithsonian’s crown-like National Museum of African American History and Culture (N.M.A.A.H.C.) opened its doors to the public, its founding director, Lonnie G. Bunch III, might easily…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a recent sun-dappled afternoon, I met the thirty-eight-year-old writer, director, and actress Lena Dunham at a brasserie called Soutine, in London, not far from her home in North London. “This…