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Today in History: September 18, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies
Today is Thursday, Sept. 18, the 261st day of 2025. There are 104 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Sept. 18, 2020, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering champion of women’s rights who became the court’s second…
Anthony Roth Costanzo, who introduced $11 tickets, brings opera with a difference to Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Anthony Roth Costanzo, the man who brought $11 opera tickets to Philadelphia, hopes to keep surprising audiences during the company’s new season.
“It is very much opera. It’s dramatic, it’s cathartic, it’s collaborative…
Robert Caro reflects on childhood as he receives New York Historical’s Historians’…
NEW YORK (AP) — Receiving an award from one of Manhattan's oldest cultural institutions, The New York Historical, had Robert Caro thinking about childhood.
“It (New York Historical) has been a very integral element of my life since I was a…
Puerto Rican homeowner, 84, sues Bad Bunny over use of iconic house in video and residency
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An 84-year-old man whose home in southeast Puerto Rico served as inspiration for the house that became an iconic symbol at Bad Bunny’s residency this summer sued the superstar on Wednesday.
Román Carrasco…
Movie Review: Matthew McConaughey steers a white-knuckle wildfire drama in ‘The Lost Bus’
On Nov. 8, 2018, the day one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history burned the town of Paradise, California, and killed 85 people, a school bus driver was sent to pick up 22 elementary school students to take them to safety. The Camp…
France selects the Iranian drama ‘It Was Just An Accident’ as its Oscar submission
France announced Wednesday that it has selected the Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning drama “It Was Just An Accident” as its submission to the Academy Awards. The selection gives an Oscar pathway to a film that Iran was…
Music Review: ‘Buckingham Nicks’ is an engaging blueprint for the classics to come
The long-awaited digital reissue of “Buckingham Nicks” offers two perspectives on the 1973 pre-Fleetwood Mac album by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. For newcomers, the Friday release is a taste of vintage Los Angeles singer-songwriter…
Movie Review: A suburban comedy of errors unspools in the darkly excellent ‘Adulthood’
Early on in “Adulthood,” siblings Meg and Noah Robles suddenly — and unhappily — learn why they never got to have a dog growing up.
It's not because their parents didn't think they could handle the responsibility or because dogs can be…
Theater award created in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Adam Schlesinger turns 10
NEW YORK (AP) — Many times in his life, playwright David Bar Katz didn't know how he was going to pay the bills. These days, he's helping the next generation of artists facing that same dilemma.
Katz oversees The Relentless Award, the…
Movie Review: ‘One Battle After Another’ is an American masterpiece
In Paul Thomas Anderson ’s gloriously messy, madcap roller coaster ride through modern America, objects in the rear view may go out of sight, but they don’t disappear.
Political struggles never die in “One Battle After Another,” they just…
With the Sundance Film Festival and filmmaker labs, Robert Redford brought change to cinema
Robert Redford, who died Tuesday at 89, transformed the film industry with the Sundance Institute and Film Festival. Frustrated with Hollywood's mainstream, he created a platform for independent filmmakers. Over four decades, Sundance has…
Bad Bunny leads the 2025 Latin Grammy nominations, dethroning Édgar Barrera’s 2-year run
Bad Bunny leads the 2025 Latin Grammy nominations this year with 12 nods. That means he has dethroned producer/ songwriter Édgar Barrera. Barrera previously topped the list in 2023 and 2024 with 13 and nine nominations, respectively. Don’t…
Robert Redford remembered for his deep legacy in environmental activism and Native American advocacy
NEW YORK (AP) — Lorie Lee Sekayumptewa, a former administrator with the Navajo Nation Film Office, remembers seeing Robert Redford at traditional cultural dances at the Hopi village of Hotevilla in New Mexico. It was more than 30 years ago…
Theater Review: Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris revel in the power of…
For evidence of how high inflation has gotten, look no further than Broadway. The fancy painting at the heart of the play “Art” cost the equivalent of $40,000 in 1998. In a crackling new revival, it's a hefty $300,000.
The painting in…
In his own words: Robert Redford on independence, integrity and his enduring roles
As the world reflects on Robert Redford’s death, his own words illuminate the essence of his career. He was an Oscar-winning actor, director and founder of the Sundance Film Festival who championed truth, independence and new voices.…
Suspect arrested in Atlanta auto break-in and theft of Beyoncé’s unreleased music, police say
ATLANTA (AP) — A suspect has been arrested in a July auto break-in that a dancer and a choreographer touring with Beyoncé′ said resulted in the theft of the singer’s unreleased music, Atlanta police said Tuesday
Police identified the…
Music Review: ‘Buckingham Nicks’ is an engaging blueprint for the classics to come
The long-awaited digital reissue of “Buckingham Nicks” offers two perspectives on the 1973 pre-Fleetwood Mac album by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. For newcomers, the Friday release is a taste of vintage Los Angeles singer-songwriter…
Bad Bunny leads the 2025 Latin Grammy nominations, dethroning Édgar Barrera’s 2-year run
Bad Bunny leads the 2025 Latin Grammy nominations this year with 12 nods. That means he has dethroned producer/ songwriter Édgar Barrera. Barrera previously topped the list in 2023 and 2024 with 13 and nine nominations, respectively. Don’t…
Brazilian musician Hermeto Pascoal, known as ‘The Mad Genius,’ dies at 89
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Hermeto Pascoal, an eccentric and prolific Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger known affectionately as “The Sorcerer of Sounds” and “The Mad Genius,” has died. He was 89.
“With serenity and love, we…
Bobby Hart, co-wrote ‘Last Train to Clarksville’ and other hits for the Monkees, dead at…
Bobby Hart, who co-wrote some of the Monkees' biggest hits, has died. He was 86. Along with Tommy Bryce, he was a key part of the Monkees' multimedia empire. Boyce and Hart wrote hundreds of songs and were a top team in the mid-1960s,…
A Lebanese dancer defies extremist threats and social norms with his sold-out performances
BEIRUT (AP) — Alexandre Paulikevitch put on his white dress and wig and danced his way to center stage, knowing that the extremist groups who had threatened him before his controversial recital might be waiting for him outside the theater.…
Jane Austen fans honor 250 years since her birth with grand costumed balls and dancing
Fans of Jane Austen are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beloved author's birth with costumed balls and themed events. This weekend, thousands of Austen devotees from all over the world are descending on Bath, England, for a 10-day…
Music Review: Spinal Tap almost goes to 11 on ‘The End Continues’ soundtrack
The ostensibly fictitious hard-rock band Spinal Tap has been together, off and on, slightly longer than Katy Perry has been alive, and as of Friday, has released four studio albums and two feature films. Their latest album, “The End…
Music Review: Ed Sheeran returns to his roots on ‘Play,’ a cross-cultural playground
NEW YORK (AP) — Ed Sheeran has long sought to bring people together with his music, whether it be his emotionally resonant acoustic ballads or unproblematic, danceable pop hits. “Play,” his eighth studio album out Friday, stays in that…
