For centuries, monks have sought solitude and isolation on their path to spiritual enlightenment, choosing some of the most ...

Six movies can win Oscars' best picture prize: "Anora," "The Brutalist," "Conclave," "A Complete Unknown" "Emilia Perez" and ...

Jon M. Chu may be the toast of Hollywood, but the director still credits his hometown and the Bay Area for his enduring ...

Elphaba may defy gravity, but there’s no defying the Golden Globe eligibility committee. “I didn’t find the kind of scoring I did very different from underscoring a show. John Powell ...

Patel, like Trump, has taken a different view, saying the rioters have been mistreated by the criminal justice system. A ...

Welcome to the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot, where the laws of physics go on vacation and your sense of reality takes a nosedive ...

The vast catalog of provocative public statements provides an unusually extensive record into a nominee’s unvarnished and ...

Other books we recommend this week include Dorian Lynskey’s study of the role the apocalypse plays in the cultural ...

Waste Land is a well-written rumination on what may come next without very deft leadership working very smartly to avoid it.

It’s official, Wicked is more popular than Glinda now. So popular that even the Grinch who stole Christmas is singing “Defying Gravity” at Universal Studios on TikTok .

(This is where we should note that Wicked covers only the first act of the musical: Part II, and everything that comes after the anthemic 'Defying Gravity ... of a book – The Wonderful Wizard ...