Rasha Nahas: “The story I bring with me being a Palestinian artist born in Haifa.”
Music
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
How to experience the Bible in a digital world
A 21st-century arts collective revives illustrating the Bible for the digital age.
Posted inCulture, Faith
New Bing Crosby bio paints picture of crooner and his priest alter-ego
With Father O’Malley, Crosby “concocted a fantasy priest—a perfect, albeit celibate, man.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Who is the better songwriter: Bob Dylan or Rodgers & Hammerstein?
How did an old war horse manage to outrun a rolling stone?
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Lady Gaga shines in a brilliant and intimate ‘A Star is Born’
“A Star Is Born” is not only among the most self-reflective of Hollywood vehicles but the most resilient; when clichés work they are called conventions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Kanye West, S.N.L. and the incoherence of modern life
Kanye is id-made-flesh, an extreme and uncomfortable example of what we all look like when turned inside out.
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
From the church to the public stage, Aretha Franklin earned her respect
In the patriarchal spaces of the music world as well as the church world, Aretha Franklin demanded respect for her talents and her work.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
The 2018 V.M.A.s, brought to you by Pepsi and angst
“There’s so many people looking,” said a girl in a backwards baseball cap, “but there’s no one to see.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Is this the end of classic rock?
Steven Hyden says he is not a religious person, but he is fervently devoted to the music that he grew up with.
Posted inFaith, Theater
Review: Leonard Bernstein’s liturgy for the world
With his “Mass,” Leonard Bernstein uses liturgy to give voice to political unease.