Culture Archive
Archives for January 2015


They may always be enemies. But sometimes, cops and taggers have been on the same side.


Reed Hastings will celebrate by streaming Sony’s “The Interview,” starting this Saturday.




10 years after their last album, Sleater-Kinney is back.


A new State of the Union website will present personalized pop-up facts as the president gives his speech.


It could become the actor and director’s biggest hit ever — give or take an orangutan.


The speeches themselves are, of course, incredible, and the songs remind us that music, too, can capture the need for protest and the feelings of hope that King’s speeches created.


Though aspects of King’s legacy are debated, his commitment to a radical type of love is beyond dispute.


In a brilliant sequence, the writer/director tackles the most persistent barbs lobbed against her show.


How network hand-me-downs help cable networks build a financial cushion to support daring programming.


New presidents Dana Walden and Gary Newman look to fill the fourth-place networks with big hits, like the new Empire.


The movie is soapy, and barely about the woman in its title.


Ouch.


Around 94% of Oscar voters are white.

He saw the limits of presidential power, he was a genuine liberal, and more.