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Law Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences along with 251 other new members, including two of her heroes, legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Oprah Winfrey.
- Advertisement - Fathom Events presents a 25th anniversary screening of "Mission: Impossible" in select theaters on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. Tom Cruise stars in the big-screen blockbuster, directed by Brian De Palma, that launched one of today’s biggest action movie franchises. Ethan Hunt (Cruise), is a top secret agent, framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races to stay one step ahead of his pursuers and draw one step closer to discovering ...
13. “I remember arguing with you about John Ashbery, whom I couldn’t stand when I was in my thirties and forties. It might even have been during our first conversation in Paris, when I said I’ve never read a good Ashbery poem, and you answered by telling me a joke the comedian George Burns used to say about his friend and fellow comedian, Jack Benny.” “That I don’t remember,” Charlie said. “Remind me.” “Benny said to Burns, ‘In my whole life I’ve never had a good cup of coffee.’ And Burns replied, ‘Then how would you know?’”
7. “Charlie,” I said to break the silence, “I was going through some poems and prose pieces you sent me a while back, among which was a prose poem I don’t think you ever published called “War for Peace.” Remember?” “Sure, of course,” he said. “Seems like,” I said, “no matter who’s in charge the circular reasoning political power uses to legitimize itself is always the same.” He waved his hand, and the tree branches on the walls dissolved into a black, quivering mass, like an army of ants that then reshaped itself into words and sentences slowly scrolling up into ...
The New York Times, and the only “jazz release” in Rolling Stone’s list of the 50 best records of 2017. Iyer’s Sextet was voted 2018 Jazz Group of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association. Iyer’s previous ECM releases include A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (2016), a collaboration with Iyer’s “hero, friend and teacher,” Wadada Leo Smith, which The Los Angeles Times calls “haunting, meditative and transportive”; Break Stuff (2015), with a coveted five-star rating in DownBeat Magazine, featuring the Vijay Iyer Trio, hailed by PopMatters as “the best band in jazz...